Research

 
In the past few years our research areas have been focused primarily on the multi-physics mechanics of amorphous polymers, shape-memory polymers, and polymer gels. With respect to work with various polymeric materials, we have focused on the constitutive behavior in this class of materials over a wide range of applied and environmental conditions such as temperature and strain rate. Aside from the constitutive behavior we have also developed and implemented the corresponding numerical procedures for finite element implementation. Please see the links below for further details. Amorphous Polymers Thermo-mechanically coupled behavior below the glass transition Thermo-mechanically coupled behavior spanning the glass transition Thermally actuated shape-memory polymers Shear-banding as the micro-mechanism of plasticity Length-scale effects in nano/micro indentation Thermo-mechanically coupled fracture / failure Polymer Gels Elastomeric gels Viscoelastic gels Soft Dielectrics Dielectric elastomers and viscoelastomers Inelasticity in Soft Materials Experiments and simulations on inelasticity in rubber-like materials Granular Systems Particle level simulationsBelowTg.htmlAboveTg.htmlSMP.htmlShearBanding.htmlSizeEffect.htmlFailure.htmlElasticGels.htmlViscoGels.htmlSoftDielectrics.htmlInelasticityRubber.htmlGranular.htmlshapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3shapeimage_2_link_4shapeimage_2_link_5shapeimage_2_link_6shapeimage_2_link_7shapeimage_2_link_8shapeimage_2_link_9shapeimage_2_link_10