News and Recent Activity – Page 8 – Multiscale Mechanics & Materials Laboratory

Invited Seminar at University of Michigan

January 16, 2016January 16, 2016

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....

Kory Cross selected for UROP

December 18, 2015December 18, 2015

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!...

Welcome, Prof. Tony Rollett!

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015

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....

Invited Seminar at Johns Hopkins

June 30, 2015June 30, 2015

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....

AFOSR Young Investigator Award

May 11, 2015May 11, 2015

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....

TMS 2015

March 20, 2015March 20, 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....

Recent Research Featured on the APS Homepage

December 11, 2014December 11, 2014

Cracking the Puzzle of Material Failure – Recent work performed in collaboration with Prof. Bob Suter (CMU), Drs. Shiu Fai “Frankie” Li and Jonathan Lind (LLNL), and Prof. Tony Ingraffea (Cornell) was featured as a Science Highlight on the homepage of the Advanced Photon Source, a facility operated by Argonne National Laboratory. The reference journal article is Acta Mater. 76 413 (2014)....

Invited Seminar at UTK

November 5, 2014November 5, 2014

Prof. Spear recently traveled to the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to give an invited seminar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. For more information about the exciting work going on in CEE at UTK, please visit http://cee.utk.edu/....

Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference 2014

October 13, 2014October 13, 2014

Prof. Spear recently presented at the Multiscale Materials Modeling (MMM) Conference held in Berkeley, CA. Her talk was entitled “3D Digital Reconstruction and Numerical Modeling of Microstructurally Small Fatigue Cracks in an Aluminum Alloy from Synchrotron-based Measurements”....

Retirement Symposium to Honor Prof. Anthony Ingraffea

September 27, 2014September 27, 2014

Prof. Spear recently returned to Cornell University to present at a symposium in honor of Prof. Emeritus Tony Ingraffea on the occasion of his retirement. Spear’s presentation was entitled “Toward High-fidelity Multi-scale Modeling of 3D Crack Evolution” and accompanied about a dozen other talks from former students and colleagues of Prof. Ingraffea. Congratulations and thank you to Prof. Ingraffea for his outstanding contributions in the classroom and in the field of fracture mechanics! The symposium abstracts and videos can be accessed at this link. ...