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Dynamic failure and extreme loading
Experiments and modeling for high-rate deformation, adiabatic shear, thermal conversion, localization, and impact-driven fracture.
This research theme focuses on high-rate and extreme-loading behavior, including dynamic tensile necking, adiabatic shear banding, thermal conversion, impact-induced microstructural evolution, and dynamic crack propagation.
The group combines experiments, mechanics-based modeling, and simulation to study how materials localize, heat, deform, and fail under rapid loading.