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Mechanical Engineering Program
Mechanical Systems Area
Faculty
in the Mechanical Systems Area are concerned with the deformation, dynamics,
and failure of solids, as well as with interdisciplinary topics such as
biomechanics and fluid-structure interaction. Many faculty and students
in this area at Iowa are affiliated with the Center
for Computer-Aided Design (CCAD). They also interact closely with
the structures group within the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department.
The reliability focus group within the Mechanical Systems Area interacts
closely with the reliability faculty within the Industrial Engineering
Program.
Faculty
The faculty affiliated with the Mechanical Systems Area are listed below. Descriptions of specific research projects in this area can be accessed through research links on the individual faculty pages or through the CCAD web site.
Mechanical Systems Faculty With Primary Appointments in MIE
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Research Interests: Mechanical systems analysis, design sensitivity analysis and optimal design, computational methods in mechanics, mathematical theory of optimization and its application to mechanical systems, development of design sensitivity analysis and optimization tools, development of simulation-based concurrent engineering environment. |
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Research Interests: Computational and theoretical mechanics, structural and nonlinear dynamics, finite element methods, continuum damage mechanics. |
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Research Interests: Theory and finite element formulation for large strain inelasticity, mechanics of fiber-reinforced membrane, cellular solids, modeling of materials with microstructures. |
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Research Interests: Probabilistic mechanics and reliability, computational fracture and damage mechanics, reliability-bases design and optimization, stochasic finite elements, random vibrations. |
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Research Interests: Computational vehicular fatigue life predictions, fatigue crack growth of advanced titanium alloys, inluence of high mean tensile stress. |
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Research Interests: Multiscale modeling at nanoscale, fluids-structure interactions, coupling method of Fintie element method particle methods. |
Mechanical Systems Faculty with Secondary Appointments in MIE
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Research Interests: Optimization of nonlinear structures, optimization and control of nonlinear systems, large scale structural. |
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Research Interests: Motor control and biomechanics. |
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Research Interests: Biomaterials (joint replacements), blood compatible materials. |
Courses
Numerous graduate courses in the Mechanical Systems Area are offered at both the 100- and 200-levels. Many of these courses are cross-listed with the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, with instruction shared between the two departments.