The Solid Mechanics, Design and Manufacturing group is a collaboration of faculty and students studying all aspects of design, solid mechanics and manufacturing, with SMDM encompassing faculty members working in bone- and biomechanics, nanomechanics, tribology, advanced composites, orthopaedic design, rapid prototyping, advanced manufacturing, biomimetics, high-stress and high-strain materials modeling and simulation, computational mechanics, cellular mechanics, FEA analysis, design optimization and structural analysis, and tribology. State-of-the-art research is being conducted in theoretical development and modeling, computational simulation and experimental testing.
SMDM Group Lead: Yong Huang
SMDM Faculty Members
- Tommy Angelini
- Nagaraj K. Arakere
- Oana Cazacu
- Youping Chen
- Hitomi Y. Greenslet
- Raphael T. Haftka
- Peter Ifju
- Nam Ho Kim
- Ashok V. Kumar
- Bhavani V. Sankar
- Malisa Sarntinoranont
- W. Gregory Sawyer
- John K. Schueller
- Chelsey Simmons
- Douglas Spearot
- Ghatu Subhash
- Curtis Taylor
- Roger Tran-Son-Tay
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