Civil Faculty
Associate Professor
Computational mechanics, including computational inverse problems and their applications in engineering and biomedicine, chemo-mechanics, machine learning in mechanics, multiscale problems, fluid-structure interaction, acoustics-structure interaction, and generalized finite element methods.
Associate Professor
My research seek to develop an understanding of how the engineering, environmental and petrophysical properties of porous media (soils, fractured rock, biological tissues) affect measurable geophysical responses, and subsequently develop methodologies by which these properties can be obtained from...
Yoh Family Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Modeling quasi-static and dynamic fracture of structural components, the evolution of interfaces with nonlinear constitutive laws, and developing models for stimulus-responsive hydrogels
Associate Professor and Bass Fellow
Structural dynamics, structural control, and related applications of controllable materials, especially the use of electrorheological and magnetorheological dampers for structural vibration suppression. This work encompasses rheology, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, visco-elasticity, non-linear...
Associate Professor of the Practice for Sustainable Systems Analysis (primary appt: Earth and Ocean Sciences) and Faculty Director Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Systems Analysis, Director of the Duke Center for Sustainability & Commerce
Professor
mechanics of materials, theoretical soil mechanics, rock mechanics, and environmental geomechanics, theory of plasticity
Jeffrey N. Vinik Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.
Associate Professor of the Practice and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Theoretical and applied mechanics, micromechanics, composite materials, and probabilistic methods
Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor
Structural engineering; design; interrelationship between success and failure in design; nature of invention; history of engineering and technology
Associate Professor
Finite element methods, computational fluid and solid mechanics, multiphase porous media flows, computational methods for fluid and solid materials under extreme load conditions, turbulent flow computations, instability phenomena.
Professor
Experimental verification of low-order nonlinear dynamical
behavior (including chaos) using mechanical models.
The interaction between dynamics and buckling including secondary
bifurcation.
Time series analysis in the context of condition monitoring...
Adjunct Civil Engineering Faculty
Adjunct Professor
Natural and man-made systems with coupled phenomena. Environmental Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Geo-environmental Engineering, Mechanics of Multiphase Porous Materials. Area of activities at Duke University: Thermo-mechanical behavior of soils, soil desiccation and shrinkage.
Adjunct Professor (primary appt: NSOE & Earth Sci - Earth & Ocean Sciences)
Seismic propagation in planetary crusts, Borehole investigation of seismic sources and signals, and Environmental Geology