04/2011
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Steven
Atkinson defended his undergraduate
research thesis entitled
"Three-Dimensional Characterization of
Polydisperse Particulate Composites from
Microtomography"
Congratulations
Steve !!
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02/2011
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Matthew
Mosby passed the Ph.D. Qualifying
Examination.
Congratulations
Matt !! |
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08/2010
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The
Computational Physics Group at the
University of Notre Dame has been
awarded the project entitled "Utilizing
Medical Imaging Technology for
Generation of Mesoscale Computational
Descriptions'', IllinoisRocstar
LLC - DoD SBIR program, Phase I, Office
of Secretary of Defence (OSD): Dr. M.
Brandyberry (IR) and Dr. M. Nixon (Eglin
Air Force Base) program managers, K.
Matous (PI); Amount $20,000. |
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08/2010
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The
Computational Physics Group at the
University of Notre Dame has been
awarded the project entitled "Solid
Rocket Motor Propellant
Characterization and Material
Reconstruction Using High Resolution
Tomography", IllinoisRocstar
LLC - DoD SBIR program, Office of the
secretary of defense (OSD), IR
O081-PR2-1058, Phase II: Dr. M.
Brandyberry (IR) and Dr. N. Brown
(Edwards Air Force Base) program
managers, K. Matous (PI); Amount
$278,148. |
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06/2010
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Andrew
Gillman passed the Ph.D. Qualifying
Examination.
Congratulations
Andrew !!
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04/2010
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Steven
Atkinson (Notre Dame ’11, Mechanical
Engineering) has been awarded the
undergraduate student fellowship from
the Center
for Research Computing (CRC).
Congratulations
Steven !! |
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04/2010
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Elizabeth
Berrigan (B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering, The University of Minnesota
- Twin Cities) has accepted the graduate
student position and will pursue her
Ph.D. in Computational Mechanics.
Elizabeth
welcome to Notre Dame !! |
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02/2010
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Former
student of mine, Mohan Kulkarni (Ph.D.
2009 AE, UIUC, with Prof. Geubelle as
co-advisor), has been selected as an
"honorable mention" for the 2010 Melosh
Competition.
Congratulations
Mohan !! |
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12/2009
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The
Computational Physics Laboratory at the
University of Notre Dame has be awarded
a project entitled "The Behavior Within Minimum
Signature Propellants During Impact
Insensitive Munition Tests",
IllinoisRocstar LLC - DoD SBIR program,
Phase I, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile
Research Development and Engineering
Center (AMRDEC): Dr. M. Brandyberry (IR)
and Dr. W. Chew (AMRDEC) program
managers, K. Matous (PI) and J.M. Powers
(co-PI); Amount $36,000.
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11/2009
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The
Computational Physics Laboratory at the
university of Notre Dame has be awarded
a project entitled "Heterogeneous Solid
Propellant Characterization using
Micro-computer Tomography",
Alliant Techsystems Inc.: Dr. I. L.
Davis - program manager, K. Matous
(PI); Amount $71,062.
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10/2009
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The
Computational Physics Laboratory at the
University of Notre Dame has be awarded
a project entitled "Experimental and
Computational Program for Slow and
Fast Cookoff for Insensitive Munitions
Testing". The project is
sponsored by the DoD SBIR program, Phase
II, U.S. Army Aviation and Missile
Research Development and Engineering
Center (AMRDEC) through the
IllinoisRocstar LLC. Dr. W. Chew
(AMRDEC) and Dr. M. Brandyberry (IR)
program managers, K. Matous (PI); Amount
awarded to ND $195,000.
Experimental part of the project is led
by Prof.
N. Glumac at UIUC. |
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Dr. Karel
Matous has accepted an Associate
Professor position at the Department of
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at
the University of Notre Dame. |
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07/2009
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Dr. Karel
Matous has been invited to deliver a
keynote lecture entitled "Numerical
Simulation of Heterogeneous Propellant
Combustion by Generalized Finite
Element Method" at the 10th US
National Congress on Computational
Mechanics, Columbus, OH, as the part of
the symposium Extended/generalized FEM
and other partition of unity based
methods.
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12/2008
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The
recent article on the finite element
modeling of nonlinear viscoelastic
elastomers, P. Areias and K. Matous, CMAME
197/2008, published in the
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics
and Engineering is featured on the
ScienceDirect Top
25 Hottest Articles. |
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08/2008
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The
recent article on the multiscale
cohesive failure modeling of
heterogeneous adhesives, K. Matous et al.,
JMPS,
56/5, 2008, published in the
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of
Solids is featured on the ScienceDirect
Top
25 Hottest Articles.
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07/2008
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Brett
Collins has accepted the Ph.D. graduate
offer from the Mechanical Engineering
Department at UC. Berkeley.
Congratulations
Brett !! Good luck at Berkeley.
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07/2007
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Mohan Kulkarni
(Ph.D. candidate in AE, UIUC, with Prof.
Geubelle as co-advisor), won the student
presentation competition in the material
modeling & specialty area at the 9th
U.S. National Congress on Computational
Mechanics (USNCCM9) in San Francisco.
Congratulations
Mohan !!
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2004
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Dr. Karel
Matous has derived the Multiscale
Cohesive
Model.
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