UCI-MAE THRUST AREAS

Continuum Mechanics


Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Research and coursework emphasize theoretical and computational approaches which contribute to a basic understanding of and new insight into the properties and behavior of condensed matter. General areas of interest are large-strain and large-rotation inelastic solids, constitutive modeling, and fracture mechanics.   Computational algorithms center on boundary element methods and the new class of meshless methods in general, and the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin  (MLPG) method in particular. cm_pcs1.jpg (9945 bytes)

 

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