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Ph. D. Research, Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Researchers
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        Ph.D. Theses

  • Aithal,  Raghavendra,  "Boundary  Element  Formulations  for  Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis  Using  Implicit  Differentiation,"  unpublished  PhD Dissertation,  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA,  August  1989.    Presently  Senior  Development Engineer, Automated Analysis Corporation, Ann Arbor, MI.
     

  • Bezerra,  Luciano  M.,  "Inverse  Elastostatics  Solutions  with  Boundary Elements", unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department of Civil  Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1993.  Presently Assistant Professor, Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares, Brazil.
     

  • Simunovic, Srdan, "Boundary Element Formulations  for  Contact  Problems", unpublished  PhD  Dissertation,  Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, August 1993.  Presently Member  of  the Technical  Staff,  Materials Process Modeling Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN.
     

  • Kaljevic,  Igor,  "Probabilistic  Formulation  with  Boundary   Elements", unpublished  PhD  Dissertation,  Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University,  Pittsburgh,  PA,  August  1993.    Presently Development Engineer,  ANSYS, Inc., Houston, PA.
     

  • Li, Hui, "Constitutive  Modeling  for  Densification  of  Aluminum  Powder Aggregate", unpublished PhD Dissertation,  Department  of  Civil  and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie  Mellon  University,  Pittsburgh,  PA, July 1994. Presently Senior Software Engineer, Utility Translation Systems, Inc. (subsidiary of Itron, Inc.), NC.
     

  • Tetambe,,  Ravindra  P.,  "Adaptive  Remeshing  and  Rezoning in Nonlinear Finite  Element  Analysis", unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1994. Presently at General Electric Corporate Research and Development, Schnectady, NY.
     

  • Xu, Yu, “Element Free Galerkin Formulations for Steady Crack Growth in Solids”, unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1997. Presently Development Engineer, ALGOR, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA. 
     

  • Pakalkumar, Rahul, “Computational Fracture Mechanics Using Cohesive Element Formulations“, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999. Presently at ExxonMobil, Houston, TX.
     

  • Barry, William, “Element Free Galerkin Formulations for Large and Small Strain Elastic and Elastoplastic Analysis”, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998. Presently Assistant Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
     

  • Zakaria,   Ahmed   Salem,”Robust Distortion Metric for Quadratic Finite Elements”, unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, December 1998. Presently Development Engineer, ANSYS, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA.
     

  • Owen, Steve, “Non-simplicial Unstructured Mesh Generation. Dissertation”, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999. Presently Senior Member of Technical Staff, Parallel Computing Group, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM.
     

  • Seshadari, Muralidhar, “Mechanics of Glass-Polymer Laminates using Multi Length Scale Cohesive Zone Models”, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2001. Presently at University of South Florida.
     

  • White, David, “Assessment, Metrics, and techniques for Hexahedral Finite Element Mesh Generation”, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002. Presently Manager, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM.
     

  • Tang, H., “Gradient Effects in Inhomogeneous Plastic Flow and Fracture Behavior of Single Crystals”, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2003. Presently Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.
     

  • Moore, Robert. Meshless Materials Microstructure Analysis, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 2007.
     

  • Khan, Shiraj, “Nonlinear Dependence and Extremes in Hydrology and Climate”, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department   of   Civil   and   Environmental Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2007.

        Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Researchers       

  • Burman, Ake. 1994-1996. Analysis of Acetabular Component in Total Hip Arthroplasty, Visiting Professor from Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.
     

  • Shet, Chandrakanth. 1996-1998. Crystal Plasticity Simulations in Materials, Post-doctoral Research Assistant. Presently employed at Florida A&M University.
     

  • Huang, Hao. 2003-2004. Shoulder Biomechanics, Hybrid Particle Methods. Presently employed at ExxonMobil, Houston, TX.
     

  • Li, Ke. 2004-2005. Shoulder Biomechanics, Nanomechanics of Nanocomposites. Presently employed at Schlumberger Corporation.
     

  • Seshadri, Muralidhar. 2005-2007. Nanotube Crack Bridging. Presently employed at Schlumberger Corporation.