Wednesdays, 2:30 - 3:00 PM, ERB 106

9/24: Raymond Rasmussen, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Computational modeling of the thermo-mechanical plasticity of low carbon steel

10/22: Daniyar Syrlybayev, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Decoupling strain and strain-rate hardening mechanisms at extreme strain rates

10/29: Stephen Yang, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Single Crystal representation of the Coupled Thermal-Mechanical Behavior of the Low Carbon Steel

11/12: Bhanugoban Maheshwaran, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Impact mitigation capabilities of nanofibrous materials and designing them for advanced protective systems

11/19: Rob Calvo, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Enhanced Dissipation via Structurally Engineered Frozen Mode Regime

11/21: ME Grad Thanksgiving Social

Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:00 PM, ME 1152

2/13: Akhilesh Pedgaonkar, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Explicit Representation of Deformation Twins: Computational Framework and Experiments

2/20: Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Rate Independent Mechanical Response and Amplitude Dependent Softening in VACNT Fibrous Material Systems

03/20: Nicholas Jaegersberg, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Energy absorbing capabilities of materials at different length-scales of impact.

04/17: Sinan Candan, Prof. Christian Franck's Lab, Leveraging Soft Electronics for In-Situ Mechanics of Fibrillar Biopolymer Networks at High Rates

Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:00 PM, ME 1152

9/25: Raymond Rasmussen, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Microstructure Characterization and Modeling the Mechanical Behavior of Thermally Sprayed Tantalum

10/02: Jessica Park, Prof. Christian Franck's Lab, Strain-based Cellular Injury Thresholds in a 3D in Vitro Model of Traumatic Brain Injury

10/09: Ahmad Faraz Badar, Prof. Mario Trujillo's Lab, An Examination of the Maximum Entropy Formalism for Secondary Atomization

10/16: Daniyar Syrlybayev, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, Unraveling Dynamic Hardness and Microstructural Evolution in RHA Steel through High-Velocity Impact

10/30: Bhanugoban Maheshwaran, Prof. Thevamaran's Lab, A Unified Structure-Property Relationship for Architected VACNT Foams Using a Geometric Descriptor-Based ANN

11/06: Samir Patel, Prof. Jacob Notbohm's Lab, Quantifying the Mechanics of Nanofibrillated Cellulose Gels

11/13: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst's Lab,  Towards Physically Informed Statistical Representation of Dynamic Ductile Damage

12/04: Sam Dunham, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst's Lab, Attribution of Stress Hotspots in Multi-Grain Simulations Under Conditions Leading to Damage

Wednesdays 12:00 - 1:00 pm ERB 106

2/21: Maheshwaran Bhanugoban (Bhanu), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab

2/28: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo’s Lab

3/6: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab

3/13: Labib Shahid, Prof. Roldan-Alzate's Lab

4/10: Paranjoy Basak, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab

4/24: ME-3MT

Mondays 3:30 - 4:30 pm ERB 106

9/18: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Building a safer future: Defying TBI with Architected Foams

9/25: Sudip Kunda, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Grain Boundary Plasticity and Micromorphic Continua

10/2: Ahmad Faraz Badar, Prof. Mario Trujillo's Lab, Development of a Compressible Hybrid VoF-Lagrangian-Eulerian Solver for Spray Simulations

10/9: Akshay Kumar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's Lab, Optimization of Lattice Structures for Desired Characteristics

10/16: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Transmission Revival by Symmetry Violation in Non-Hermitian Systems

10/23: Nicholas Jaegersberg (Nico), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Geometric Scaling Rules Associated with the Microparticle Impact Testing of Materials.

10/30: Akhilesh Pedgaonkar, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Three-Dimensional Micro Mechanical Framework for Deformation Twinning.

11/6: Mainak Sarkar, Prof. Jacob Notbohm's Lab, Investigating the Mechanics of Fiber Networks.

11/13: Haocheng Yang, Prof. Melih Eriten's Lab, Characterization of Drying-Induced Change of Constrained Hydrogel using Vibration-Based Methods.

11/20: Hormuzd Bodhanwalla, Prof. Mario Trujillo's Lab, The effect of one-sided confinement on nappe oscillations in free falling liquid sheet.

11/27: (Thanksgiving)

12/4: Patrick Dills, Prof. Michael Zinn's Lab, A Hybrid Active-Passive Actuation and Control Approach for Kinesthetic Handheld Haptics.

Mondays 12 - 1 pm ERB 106

2/6: Saurabh Gupta, Engine Research Center, Theoretical and Experimental Analysis in an Oscillating Grid Turbulence Tank

2/13: Abitha Dhavamani, Prof. Michael Arnold’s Lab, Photophysics of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotube Microcavity Polaritons

2/20: Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's Lab, Topology Optimization using Neural Networks

2/27: Sudip Kunda, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst's Lab, Investigation of metal plasticity near grain boundaries using micromorphic continua

3/6: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Rate independent triboelastic Payne Effect in hierarchical fibrous materials

3/13: (Spring Break)

3/20: Akhilesh Shirish Pedgaonkar, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst's Lab, Explicit Computational representation of Deformation Twinning in Pure Titanium

3/27: Aditya Nagaraj, Prof. Sangkee Min's Lab, Study on Residual Stress Anisotropy During Machining of Single Crystal Ceramics

4/3: Rahul Kumar Padhy, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's Lab, Multiscale Fluid Topology Optimization

4/10: Srinath Subramanian, Prof. David Rothamer’s lab, The Future and Current Challenges Associated with Compression Ignition Direct Injection Engines

4/17: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Oscillating-Foil Turbines for Energy Harvesting

4/24: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo’s Lab, Theoretical and computational study to understand atomization of liquid sprays

Wednesdays 11 - 12 pm ERB 106

9/14: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Welcome and Introductions

9/21: Prakarsh Pandey, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju's Lab, Lattice instabilities and amorphous shear band formation in intermetallic alloys

9/28: Raymond McConnell, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza's Lab, A Few Challenges in Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability Experiments

10/5: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Emergence of Exceptional Points in Periodic Metastructures with Hidden Parity-Time Symmetric Defects

10/12: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Improving mechanical properties through impact-induced nanostructural evolution of silver single crystals

10/19: Suk Bum Kwon (John), Prof. Sangkee Min's Lab, Effect of crystallographic orientation on ductile-to-brittle transition in single-crystal sapphire during ultra-precision machining

10/26: Maheshwaran Bhanugoban (Bhanu), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Understanding the Coupled Compression-Shear Response in Vertically Aligned Carbon Nano Tube (VACNT) Foams

11/2: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Simulations of dynamic stall for a cross-flow turbine

11/9: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Grain Boundaries as Preferred Damage Initiation Sites

11/16: Trevor Dunt, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Spanwise Variation in Forces on a Seal Whisker Inspired Geometry at Swept Back Angles

11/23: (Thanksgiving)

11/30: Saketh Sridhara, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's Lab, DiffCat: A differentiable representation of engineering catalogs and applications

12/7: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza's Lab, Turbulent mixing in multifluid vortex rings before & after shock interaction

Wednesdays 11:30 - 12:30 pm ERB 106

2/16: Mohan Ananth, Prof. Mario F. Trujillo's Lab, Study of large-scale instabilities in liquid jet atomization

2/23: Kyle Seledic, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Nonlinearly Scalable Vibration Superabsorption in an Elastodynamic Metastructure

3/2: Drithi Shetty, Prof. Matthew S. Allen’s Lab, Improving the accuracy and computational efficiency of hysteretic models used to simulate friction

3/9: Tyler Dabney, Prof. Kumar Sridharan's Lab, Investigation of Cold Spray Cr Coatings for Accident Tolerant Nuclear Fuel

3/16: (Spring Break)

3/23: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza’s Lab, Multifluid Shock-Vortex Interactions

3/30: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst’s Lab, Thermodynamically Consistent Void-Based Damage Model

4/6: Hridyesh Raj Tewani, Prof. Pavana Prabhakar's Lab, Additive manufacturing of flexible architected syntactic foams

4/13: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck’s Lab, Modal analysis of dynamic stall on a cross-flow turbine blade

4/20: Dipul Chawla, Prof. Corinne Henak's Lab, Osmolarity- and rate-dependent cartilage microfracture and failure regimes

4/27: Kunal Bhagat, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju's Lab, High fidelity numerical modeling of dendritic solidification and microstructure evolution in metal additive manufacturing

Wednesdays 12:30 - 1:30 pm Rm 175 1410 Engineering

9/22: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Welcome and Introductions

9/29: Aaditya Chandrasekhar, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's Lab, Topology Optimization using Neural Networks

10/6: Alex Ames, Prof. Riccardo Bonazza's Lab, Vortex rings and Julia programming language

10/13: Yanghao Fang (Harry), Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Universal route for the emergence of exceptional points in PT-symmetric metamaterials with unfolding spectral symmetries

10/20: Debabrata Auddya, Prof. Shiva Rudraraju’s lab, Biomembranes undergo complex, non-axisymmetric deformations governed by Kirchhoff-Love kinematics and revealed by a three-dimensional computational framework

10/27: Claudio Meza-Valle, Prof. Nimish Pujara’s lab, Flow and transport in wave-induced oscillatory boundary layers over permeable beds

11/3: Melissa Schmidt-Landin, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Experimental Realization of Parity Time Symmetry in Elastodynamic Systems Using Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

11/10: Bhagyashree Prabhune, Prof. Krishnan Suresh's lab, Tangled Finite Element Method (TFEM) for Concave Quadrilateral Elements

11/17: Richard (RJ) Hommel, Prof. Michael Graham’s lab, Constitutive modeling of dilute wormlike micelle solutions: shear-induced structure and transient dynamics

11/24: (Thanksgiving)

12/1: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Improving mechanical properties through impact-induced nanostructural evolution of initially single-crystal metals

12/8: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck's Lab, Vortex Dynamics and Machine Learning on Oscillating-Foil Turbines for Energy Harvesting

Tuesdays 4 – 5 pm Online via Zoom

2/9: Claire Griesbach, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Welcome and Introductions

2/16: Aabhas Singh, Prof. Matthew S. Allen's Lab, Multi-Mode Quasi-Static Response OR DTF

2/23: Noah Schmelzer, Prof. Curt A. Bronkhorst's Lab, Thermodynamically consistent dynamic ductile damage

3/2: Abhishek Gupta, Prof. Ramathasan Thevamaran's Lab, Characterization of materials using Synchrotron X-ray scattering

3/9: Yuhai Xiang, Prof. Stephan Rudykh's Lab, Viscoelastic in instability

3/16: Bernardo Ribeiro, Prof. Jennifer Franck's Lab, Hydrokinetic energy and Oscillating-foil turbines

3/23: Nitesh Arora, Prof. Stephan Rudykh's Lab, Deformation controlled negative group velocity state in soft composites

3/30: Mukul Dave, Prof. Jennifer Franck's Lab, Computations of dynamic stall in crossflow turbines

4/6: Aashrith Saraswathibhatla, Prof. Jacob Notbohm's Lab, Role of Active Cell Forces in Controlling Collective Cell Migration

4/13: (no GEMS--Aashrith's Ph.D. defense)

4/20: Vinay Damodaran, Prof. Pavana Prabhakar’s lab, Improving damage tolerance and resilience of composite sandwich structures through additive manufacturing

4/27: Meeting for comments and suggestions