Research and Teaching Interests

High-performance Lightweight Metals, Material Characterization, Finite-element Analysis, Multi-scale Modeling, Bending Mechanics, Formability, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity Modeling, Machine Learning, Smart Manufacturing

Current Research Work

I am passionate about working at the interface of materials and mechanical engineering with the goal of advancing experimental characterization methods and modeling approaches for emerging high-performance, lightweight, and sustainable metals. A key challenge lies in the complex microstructures of these advanced materials, which influence their macroscopic behavior in forming operations and ultimately, the performance of the final product.

The rapid proliferation of new material classes has outpaced traditional experimental and modeling techniques to assess and predict the material performance in virtual product design. My research aims to address this gap through two main avenues:

First, I focus on developing novel coupon- and component-level test methods that probe the material under boundary conditions relevant to industrial forming processes. This entails deformation modes beyond uniaxial tension, such as stretch-bending and three-dimensional stress states. Second, I distill the true material behavior in hybrid modeling strategies accounting for length scales from laboratory samples to full-scale structural components. A key aspect of this work involves leveraging machine learning techniques to efficiently calibrate advanced material models used in finite-element simulations.

Publications

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