Current Research Presentations
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- First Principles Modeling of Phase Transformations in Materials
This is a presentation from the AEM seminar in 2008 which gives a brief overview of the research currently being conducted by Professor Elliott's group. PDF (2.6MB) - Equilibrium Path-following, Bifurcation, and Stability
Techniques for Studying Temperature-Induced and
Stress-Induced Martensitic Transformations in Crystalline
Shape Memory Alloys
This presentation shows details of Prof. Elliott's current and past research PDF (3.3MB)
- Stability and Elastic Properties of the Stress-Free B2 Crystal for the Morse Pair-Potential Model
This is a short presentation given at the ASME congress in Seattle, WA November 2007 discussing work done by Venkata Guthikonda PDF (3.0MB) - A Quasicontinuum for Multilattice Crystals
Exhibiting Phase Transformations
This is a short presentation describing work on the "quasicontinuum/cascading Cauchy-Born kinematics" method. Joint work with Ellad Tadmor. PDF (1.1MB)
Prof Richard D James
Lessons on Structure from the Structure of Viruses, Penrose Lecture.
A lecture given in honor of Russell J. Penrose
in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. HTML (audio-synced slideshow)
New Materials from Mathematics: Real and Imagined
A lecture given
at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences on the
occasion of their 10th anniversary. PPT (13MB) PDF (5.2MB)
A Way to Search for Interesting New Magnetic Materials with First Order Phase Transformations
A lecture given in the Magnetics Seminar
in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University
of Minnesota. PPT (17.3MB) PDF (3.98MB)
A Relation between Compatibility and Hysteresis and its Role in the Search for New Smart Materials.
A lecture given on the Southern California Mechanics Tour. PPT (11.5MB) PDF (3.6MB)
Deforming Films of Active Materials: New Concepts for Producing Motion at Small Scales (Using Applied Fields)
A lecture given at Cornell University. PPT (3.49MB) PDF (6.29MB)
Prof Daniel D Joseph
- Stress in Viscous Potential Flow PDF (450kB).
- Direct Numerical Simulation (DLM) of 1204 Spheres in a Slit Bed PDF (1.5MB).
- • Fluidization V = 4
animation slide 6 (10MB, AVI format).
• Fluidization V = 4.5 animation slide 7 (8.8MB, AVI format).
• Blowout animation slide 9 (9.9MB, AVI format). - Slip Velocity, Lift and Correlations PDF (1.3MB).
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