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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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)....
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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/....
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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”....
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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. ...
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The Mulitscale Mechanics & Materials Laboratory opens multiple graduate student positions for various cutting-edge research projects related to advanced materials characterization and numerical simulation. We encourage highly motivated students who have a strong work ethic and good communication skills to join our team by contacting Dr. Ashley Spear at ashley.spear@utah.edu. Research experience is helpful but not requisite....
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