Solid Mechanics
While a textbook definition of Solid Mechanics is simply the study of the behavior of solid materials, the breadth of this field is enormous, as are the implications for material science, manufacturing, biomedicine, and much more. At Purdue, we study solid mechanics from the macro to the micro: from the tiniest atoms at Birck Nanotechnology Center, to the powders, particles, pharmaceuticals, and foodstuffs analyzed at the Center for Particulate Products and Processes (CP3), the most comprehensive particle lab in all of academia.
Faculty in Solid Mechanics
- Adaptive structures
- Mechanical metamaterials
- Robotic materials
- Programmable structures
- Multistable structures
- Structural nonlinearity
- Elastic instabilities
- Structural dynamics
- Nonlinear vibrations
- Modeling of nonlinear systems
- Structural dynamics and localization
- Flow-induced vibrations
- Impacting systems
- Bifurcations and chaos
- Fluid mechanics
- Nonlinear dynamics and chaos
- Granular flow
- Complex fluids, including particulate and multiphase flows
- Microfluidics, including fluid--structure interactions
- Wave phenomena in continuum mechanics
- Applied mathematics and scientific computing
- Vibrations and nonlinear dynamics
- Smart material systems
- Non-pneumatic tires
- Optimization of mechanical systems
- Additive manufacturing
- Predictive, multi-scale modeling and simulation of microstructure evolution in confined granular systems, with an emphasis in manufacturing processes and the relationship between product fabrication and performance.
- Application areas of interest include:
- (i) particulate products and processes (e.g., flow, mixing, segregation, consolidation, and compaction of powders),
- (ii) continuous manufacturing (e.g., Quality by Design, model predictive control, and reduced order models), and
- (iii) performance of pharmaceutical solid products (e.g., tensile strength, stiffness, swelling and disintegration), biomaterials (e.g., transport and feeding of corn stover) and energetic materials (e.g., deformation and heat generation under quasi-static, near-resonant and impact conditions, and formation and growth of hot spots) materials.
- Thermal stresses, thermal fracture and fatigue of advanced materials, in particular high temperature materials, ceramic coatings.
- Mechanical behavior, design and remodeling of biological tissues, effect of stresses on remodeling, microbiomechanics of cell-extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions, tissue engineering
- Computational solid mechanics
- Multiscale modeling of materials
- Finite Elements
- Dislocation dynamics
- Computational modeling of micromechanical systems
- Reliability of electronic interconnects
- Nano structured materials
- Effects of length scales on deformation process
- Cell and tissue mechanics
- Human injury
- Adult stem cell-based tissue regeneration
- Biophysics and biotransport
- Nonlinear dynamics, vibrations, fluid-structure interactions, and applications to:
- Atomic force microscopy
- MEMS/NEMS
- Human biomechanics
- Roll-to-Roll flexible electronics and nanomanufacturing
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibration
- Resonant Micro/Nanosystems
- Microscale Sensors and Actuators
- Contact mechanics
- Stresses, fatigue and friction of rolling/sliding
- Micro-mechanics of boundary and mixed lubrication regimes
- Spall initiation and propagation
- Surface science and damage
- Dynamics of ball and rolling element bearings and rotating systems
- Friction induced vibration and squeal in dry contacts
- Friction and wear of dry and lubricated contacts
- Virtual tribology
- Dry and lubricated fretting wear
- MEMS for in-situ monitoring of tribological contacts
- Discrete element modeling
- Design
- Structural Health Monitoring
- Wave propagation
- Structural dynamics and vibration control
- Adaptive structures
- Periodic structures and acoustic metamaterials
- Energy harvesting
- Thermoacoustics
- Solid mechanics, multiscale and multiphysics modeling.
- Design of engineering material systems.
- Fracture and fatigue.
- Microarchitectured materials.
- Biomechanics of soft and hard tissues.
- Computational solid mechanics
- Computational geometry
- Microelectronics reliability
- Discrete element method (DEM) modeling for particulate systems
- -- model development, e.g., fibrous particles, particle breakage, particle shapes
- -- application to manufacturing, e.g., storage and flow, blending, segregation, drying, coating, wet granulation
- Finite element method (FEM) modeling of powder compaction
- -- e.g., roll compaction, tableting, picking and sticking
- Multi-scale modeling (FEM combined with DEM) of powder dynamics
- -- model development and application to hopper flow, blending, and segregation