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Podcast episode features our work on infant skull fracture

May 22, 2019May 22, 2019

In a recent episode of the podcast Just Science, Dr. Brittany Coats was interviewed about our collaborative DOJ Grant (2016-DN-BX-0160) on predicting infant skull fracture due to impact. Contributors on the project include MMM Lab member, Jun Yan “Jimmy” He. Check it out! Listen to podcast Just Science is a podcast hosted by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Forensic Technology Center of Excellence (FTCoE), which “is committed to improving the practice and strengthening the impact of forensic science through rigorous technology corroboration, evaluation, and adoption; effective knowledge transfer and education; and comprehensive dissemination of best practices and guidelines to...

PhD student, Karen DeMille, receives NDSEG Fellowship

April 21, 2019April 21, 2019

Congratulations to MMM Lab member, Karen DeMille, who was recently awarded the prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. A complete story about Karen’s success can be found at this link. We are proud of you, Karen!...

Spear Receives TMS Early Career Faculty Fellow Award

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Ashley Spear was recently awarded the Early Career Faculty Fellow Award by TMS (The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society). The award is given annually to an assistant professor “for his or her accomplishments that have advanced the academic institution where employed, and for abilities to broaden the technological profile of TMS.” To be redirected to the original article, click here....

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...

New $3M grant from DOD

March 26, 2019March 26, 2019

University of Utah Mechanical Engineering professors Bart Raeymaekers, Ashley Spear, Tim Ameel, Wenda Tan, and Owen Kingstedt have received a $3M grant from the Department of Defense to continue research efforts on metal-based additive manufacturing. The grant is a collaboration with Colorado School of Mines and Carnegie Mellon University. To access the original news article, click here....

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. ...

Lab Ski Day

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

MMM Lab recently enjoyed a beautiful day in Big Cottonwood Canyon, skiing, snowboarding, or sledding. A much-deserved day to play for a very hardworking crew! ...

Congratulations to PhD Candidate, Brian Phung!

January 22, 2019January 22, 2019

MMM Lab member, Brian Phung, successfully defended his PhD proposal on January 7th. He also learned, on the same day, that his first-author paper entitled “A voxel-based remeshing framework for the simulation of arbitrary three-dimensional crack growth in heterogeneous materials” was accepted for publication in the journal Engineering Fracture Mechanics. The paper will soon be available online. Great work, Brian!...

Site-Specific Property Maps of 3D-Printed Metals

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019

New work from the MMM Lab and collaborators describes a framework for predicting spatial variability of mechanical properties in 3D-printed metals using multi-physics modeling. The work was recently published in Modelling & Simulation in Materials Science & Engineering. The work is supported by the US Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment under award no. ST1605-17-02. To access the full article, click here....

3D Grain Mapping of Open-Cell Aluminum Foam

January 3, 2019January 3, 2019

MMM Lab and collaborators recently published an article describing experimental/synthetic data fusion to generate 3D grain maps of metal foams. Lead author, Jayden Plumb, was named the 2018 UofU Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher. Plumb is currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Sam Daly’s lab at UC Santa Barbara. Support for the work was provided by the NSF DMREF program under grant no. CMMI-1629660. To access the full article, click here. ...