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AME Department Seminar

Speaker: Young W. Kwon, Distinguished Professor. Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Naval Postgraduate School. Monterey, California, USA. ywkwon@nps.edu

Talk Title: Analysis of Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems

Abstract: In order to better understand the behavior of materials and structures, multiscale and multiphysics analyses are useful and sometimes critical. For example, progressive damage and failure of laminated composite structures can be modeled successfully using the multiscale modeling technique. By doing so, damage and failure in composites can be described in terms of the constituent materials such as fibers and binding matrix regardless of the layer orientation, fiber architecture in each layer, etc. In other words, any damage and failure mode can be described in terms of fiber breakage, matrix cracking, and interface debonding. On the other hand, when a composite structure is in contact with water and subjected to dynamic loading, fluid-structure interaction plays an important role because composite has very comparable density as the water. Therefore, a multiphysics analysis is necessary to understand and predict the structural behavior with fluid-structure interaction. Various multiscale and multiphysics problems are presented.

Host: Prof. Veronica Eliasson

More Info: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming

Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: April Mundy

Event Link: http://ae-www.usc.edu/seminars/index.shtml#upcoming