Microstructure-aware fracture and damage
How heterogeneities, pores, inclusions, grain boundaries, and phase distributions steer crack initiation, growth, localization, and toughness.
Research
From microstructure to failure.
We study how microstructure, processing, loading history, and geometry shape deformation, damage, and fracture in engineering materials.
Dynamic failure and extreme loading
Experiments and modeling for high-rate deformation, adiabatic shear, thermal conversion, localization, and impact-driven fracture.
Quantitative and machine-learning fractography
Using surface morphology, computer vision, and statistical descriptors to turn fracture surfaces into mechanical evidence.
Computational micromechanics and simulation
FEM, FFT, homogenization, constitutive modeling, and data-driven workflows for heterogeneous materials.
Process-structure-property relations
How processing routes and microstructural evolution influence mechanical behavior, reliability, and failure.
Open mechanics education
Course notes, computational notebooks, and teaching material for mechanics, FEM, fracture, and constitutive modeling.