Di has has successfully defended his thesis for PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research was on developing the nonlocal lattice particle method for modeling brittle HCP polycrystalline solids. Congratulations to Dr. Liu!
Maya has successfully passed the PhD oral qualifying exam with research topic on computational modeling of porous fibrous materials. Congratulations to Maya!
Donglai has has successfully defended his thesis for PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. His research was on microstructure-based modeling and simulation via a nonlocal multiphysics discrete approach. Congratulations to Dr. Liu!
New paper entitled "A Mixed Formulation of the Plane-Stress Problem to Facilitate Reuse of Constitutive Models in Finite-Element Programs" has been accepted for publication in Mechanics Research Communications.
New paper entitled "A Generalized Peridynamic Material Correspondence Formulation Using Non-Spherical Influence Functions" has been accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
New paper entitled "Micro-CT image-based computation of effective thermal and mechanical properties of fibrous porous materials" has been accepted for publication in Composites Part B: Engineering.
New paper entitled "Influence Functions for Accurate Representation of Bond Deformation in Discrete Modeling" has been accepted for publication in Mechanics Research Communications.