New work from the MMM Lab and collaborators describes a method for generating high-fidelity conformal meshes to simulate microstructurally small fatigue crack growth. Read this and other articles in a new special issue of FFEMS (link)....
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Research Instrumentation Grant Brings New Capabilities to Campus
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Czabaj and Spear Selected for Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowships
ME Assistant Professors Michael Czabaj and Ashley Spear have each been selected for the 2016 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP). This program, sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), offers fellowships to university faculty to conduct research at Air Force research facilities in the summer. The objectives of the program are: To stimulate professional relationships among U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship Program participants and the scientists and engineers at Air Force research facilities. To enhance the research interests and capabilities of faculty (both new and experienced researchers) in the U.S. academic community....
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Invited Seminar at Duke
Prof. Spear recently traveled to Duke University to give a seminar on the topic of combining experimental observations with numerical simulation and machine learning to improve understanding of 3D crack growth at the grain scale. Thanks to the faculty and students in various departments within the School of Engineering for their kind hospitality and fruitful discussions. Special thanks to Professor Wilkins Aquino for the generous invitation and for hosting Spear’s visit....
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Invited Seminar at University of Michigan
Prof. Spear recently traveled to the University of Michigan to give a seminar on the topic of combining experimental observations with numerical simulation and machine learning to improve understanding of 3D crack growth at the grain scale. Thanks to the faculty and students in various departments within the College of Engineering for their kind hospitality and fruitful discussions. Special thanks to Professors Sam Daly and John Allison for the generous invitation and for hosting Spear’s visit....
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Kory Cross selected for UROP
MMM Lab member, Kory Cross, has been selected to participate in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). Kory is an undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering and joined the MMM Lab in the fall of 2015. Along with Ph.D. student, Daniel Schaeffer, Kory will be investigating the relationship between 3D microstructure and performance of multi-functional materials. Congratulations, Kory!...
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Welcome, Prof. Tony Rollett!
The Department of Mechanical Engineering is pleased to announce Distinguished Seminar speaker, Dr. Anthony (Tony) Rollett, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Rollett’s talk is entitled Advances in Modeling and Simulation of Micromechanical Response of Materials, with an Emphasis on 3D Microstructure and will be held on Friday, November 20, at 3PM in 3550 MEK. The seminar will be followed by a reception with light refreshments....
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Invited Seminar at Johns Hopkins
Prof. Spear recently traveled to Baltimore, MD, to give an invited seminar in the Department of Civil Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Thanks to the faculty and students in various departments within the Whiting School of Engineering for their kind hospitality and fruitful discussions. Special thanks goes to Prof. Somnath Ghosh for the generous invitation....
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AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Funding from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) will help the MMM Lab to advance structural-prognosis capabilities for the U.S. Air Force by combining 3D multi-scale modeling with machine learning. The award will provide funding for two new graduate students beginning this summer. More about this year’s AFOSR YIP awards can be found here....
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TMS 2015
At TMS this year in Orlando, Florida, the MMM Lab presented current work entitled “3-D Concurrent Multiscale Modeling of Microstructurally Small Fatigue-Crack Evolution from Synchrotron-Based Measurements”. The video below summarizes ongoing efforts to computationally reconstruct the evolution of a fatigue crack in a polycrystalline aluminum using 3-D post-mortem measurements. Please contact Dr. Spear to obtain a copy of the presentation....
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