Conferences – Multiscale Mechanics & Materials Laboratory

MMM Lab Represents at TMS Annual Meeting

April 18, 2023April 18, 2023

MMM Lab members recently presented work at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. The following presentations included MMM Lab members: Predicting Microstructurally Sensitive Fatigue-crack Path in WE43 Magnesium Using High-fidelity Numerical Modeling and Three-dimensional Experimental Characterization: Brian Phung, Duncan Greeley (Univ. of Michigan), Mohammadreza Yaghoobi (Univ. of Michigan), John Allison (Univ. of Michigan), Ashley Spear Accelerating Microstructurally Small Crack Growth Predictions in Three-dimensional Microstructures Using Deep Learning: Vignesh Babu Rao, Brian Phung, Bjorn Johnsson, Ashley Spear Predicting Microstructure-sensitive Fracture Behavior in AM IN625 Using a Damage-enabled Elasto-viscoplastic FFT Framework: Ashley Spear, Carter Cocke, Brian Phung, Laura Ziegler,...

MMM Lab represents at TMS annual meeting

January 5, 2020January 5, 2020

MMM Lab members recently presented work at the TMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. The following presentations included MMM Lab members: Determination of Representative Volume Elements for Small Cracks in Heterogeneous Domains via Convolutional Neural Networks: Karen DeMille, Ashley Spear Predicting Crack Location Using a Radial Distribution Function as a Unique Descriptor of Pore Networks: John Erickson, Aowabin Rahman, Ashley Spear Characterization of Fatigue Short Crack Growth in Rare-earth Magnesium Alloy WE43 using High Energy X-ray Diffraction Microscopy: Duncan Greeley (Univ. of Michigan), Jacob Adams (Univ. of Michigan), Peter Kenesei (Argonne National Laboratory), Ashley Spear, John Allison (Univ. of...

Five talks at ASME IMECE

November 20, 2019November 20, 2019

MMM Lab members (Dr. Nadia Kouraytem, Dillon Watring, Karen DeMille, Jimmy He, and Jiawei Yan) presented their recent research results at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMECE) held in our hometown, Salt Lake City. Prof. Spear also sat on a panel aimed at helping new and aspiring faculty members. ...

Spring activities in the MMM Lab

April 14, 2019April 14, 2019

Check out the latest activities from the MMM Lab. April 19th: Nadia hosted a spring party for the MMM Lab. Activities included corn hole, spikeball, ladder ball, and an egg hunt. April 12th: Post-doctoral researcher, Nadia Kouraytem, presented work from the MMM Lab at the APS Users Science Meeting at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. Her presentation was entitled “Microscale characterization and modeling of additively manufactured metals”. On the same day, Prof. Spear gave a seminar at Ohio State University on “A multi-scale, multi-physics modeling framework to predict spatial variation of properties in additive-manufactured metals”. April...

Upcoming presentations on coupling MD simulations with machine learning

February 27, 2019February 27, 2019

Postdoctoral researcher, Dr. Aowabin Rahman, will give two upcoming presentations on his work, entitled, Designing High-strength Carbon-nanotube Polymer Composites Using Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Integrated with Molecular Dynamics Simulations. The work will be presented at the following conferences: American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts Thursday, March 7, 2019 TMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas Monday, March 11, 2019 The work is a collaboration with researchers from Michigan Tech and is sponsored by the NASA STRI US-COMP. To learn more about US-COMP, click here. ...

Invited talks in Texas and Spain

October 15, 2018October 15, 2018

Prof. Spear recently gave two invited talks: one in Texas and one in Spain. On October 3rd, Spear visited Texas A&M in College Station to give an invited seminar entitled A Multiscale, Multiphysics Modeling Framework to Predict Spatial Variation of Properties in Additive-Manufactured Metals. The work is a collaboration with Prof. Wenda Tan (Utah) and Prof. Tony Rollett (Carnegie Mellon University). MMM Lab member Carl Herriott is leading the research effort. On October 11th, Spear gave an invited talk at the Society of Engineering Science (SES) conference in Madrid, Spain. Her talk was entitled Multiscale Characterization and Modeling of 3D...

Presentations this summer by MMM Lab members

May 29, 2018May 29, 2018

Members from the MMM Lab will be giving six presentations throughout the summer at various national and international venues. Below is a list of all presentations going on this summer. US-COMP Biannual Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida, May 2018: Reinforcement Learning Combined with Molecular Dynamics Simulations for the Design of Ultra-High-Strength Carbon Nanotube Composites presented by Dr. Aowabin Rahman. Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Conference, MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2018: Determination of Representative Volume Elements for Small Cracks in Heterogeneous Domains presented by Karen DeMille. 3D Materials Science (3DMS), Elsinore, Denmark, June 2018: 3D Grain Mapping of Open-cell Aluminum Foam by Synthetic-data Fusion...

MMM Lab Presents Work in Greece and Italy

June 28, 2017June 28, 2017

MMM Lab members recently traveled to Europe to present their latest research results. International Conference on Fracture Brian Phung and Karen DeMille gave talks at the International Conference on Fracture (ICF) in Rhodes, Greece. Phung’s presentation was entitled A Voxel-Based Meshing Framework for the Simulation of Arbitrary 3D Crack Growth in Heterogeneous Materials. DeMille’s presentation was entitled Determination of Representative Volume Element for Small Cracks in Heterogeneous Domains. Both Phung and DeMille are spending the summer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, OH. Mechanics in Scientific Discovery Prof. Spear gave a talk in Florence, Italy, at a workshop...

Plumb and Wilkinson present at Undergraduate Research Symposium

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017

Undergraduate researchers and MMM Lab members, Jayden Plumb and Nate Wilkinson, presented their research at the recent Undergraduate Research Symposium held at the University of Utah. Jayden gave a talk entitled 3D Grain Characterization of Open-Cell Aluminum Foam, and Nate presented a poster entitled Applying Machine Learning to Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Propagation in 3D. Both Jayden and Nate received awards through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in 2016. Jayden’s work is also funded by the NSF (no. 1629660), and Nate’s work is also funded by AFOSR (FA 9550-15-1-0172). Jayden will be continuing his research this summer as...

Conventional Versus Additively Manufactured Open-Cell Metal Foams

October 31, 2016October 31, 2016

Recent work from the MMM Lab reveals some interesting comparisons between conventional open-cell aluminum foam and “twins” created by additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The work was presented at the Materials Science & Technology conference held here in Salt Lake City. Access full paper on Research Gate (link)....