Congratulations to all the winners of the EMI student competitions, announced at the Awards Banquet on June 8, held during the EMI 2023 Conference at GA Tech, Atlanta, Georgia from June 6-9, 2023!

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Saikat Dan, Johns Hopkins University
    Poster Title: Adaptive wavelet-enhanced coupled cohesive zone phase field finite element model for crack evolution in piezoelectric composites
  • 2nd Place: Sina Abrari Vajari, Stanford University
    Poster Title: Study of crack driving forces in a phase field approach for mixed mode fracture of concrete
  • 3rd Place: Sindhusuta, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Paper Title: "Numerical study on phase transformation induced material failure.

DYNAMICS COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Kiran Daniel Bacsa, Singapore-ETH Centre
    Paper Title: Structural Dynamics Learning using a Supervised Variational Auto-Encoder
  • 2nd Place: Yiwen Dong, Stanford University
    Paper Title: Understanding Gait Biomechanics through Structural Dynamics: Foot-Floor Contact Modeling using Footstep-induced Floor Vibrations
  • 3rd Place: Ilias Mavromatis, Columbia University
    Paper Title: Efficient Wiener path integral most probable path determination based on extrapolation

ELASTICITY COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Seo Young Ahn, University of Utah
    Paper Title: Mechanical investigation of nature-inspired nano-architected porous materials
  • Finalist Place: Wei Ding, Purdue University
    Paper Title: Eshelby Tensor in Integral Nonlocal Elasticity: Theoretical Formulation and Numerical Validation
  • Finalist Place: Chao Liu, Columbia University
    Paper Title: Tailorable thermoelectricity of cubic lattice-based cellular and granular materials by the configuration stress

FLUID DYNAMICS COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place:  Nabiq Rahimi, Stony Brook University 
    Paper Title: "High Fidelity Modeling of Fracture Under Extreme Hydrodynamic Events: A Coupled SPH-Phase-Field FSI Approach"
  • 2nd Place: Tianqi Ma, Louisana State University
    Paper Title: "Large eddy simulation of wind turbulences over non-breaking and breaking waves

GRANULAR COMMITTEE

  • Winner: Pouriya Pirmoradi, (Computational Category) Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of the Built Environment
    Paper Title: "Multi-Scale Modeling of Fiber-Reinforced-Concrete Structures using Granular Micromechanics Approach"
  • Winner: Shumaiya Ferdoush (Experimental Category), Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering
    Paper Title: "Fast Time-Resolved Micro-CT Imaging of Pharmaceutical Tablets: Insights into Water Uptake and Disintegration
  • Winner: Muhammad Shahin (Theoretical Category), Purdue University, School of Mechanical Engineering
    Paper Title: "A Semi-Mechanistic Contact Law for Large Deformation Unconfined and Confined Compression of Plastic Spherical Particles with Power-Law Hardening"

MODELING INELASTICITY AND MULTISCALE BEHAVIOR

  • 1st Place: Damin Xia, Vanderbilt University
    Paper Title: Combining eigendeformation-based homogenization method (EHM) and proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) for short crack modeling in polycrystalline materials
  • Runner Up: Prajwal Kammardi Arunachala, Stanford University
    Paper Title: Capturing anisotropy in network response using multiscale phase field formulation in rubber-like materials
  • Runner Up: Susan Alexis Brown, Northwestern University
    Paper Title: Constitutive Model and Implementation for Mechanosorptive Creep in Wood Resulting from Microprestress

OBJECTIVE RESILIENCE COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Saransh Dikshit, Iowa State University
    Paper Title: Characterizing Resilience of Transmission Tower Systems Considering Cascade Failures
  • 2nd Place: Saanchi Singh Kaushal, Pennsylvania State University
    Paper Title: High-Fidelity Geometric Modelling and Analysis to Examine Tornadic Loads on Historic Masonry
  • 3rd Place: Michelle Reckner, Georgia Tech
    Paper Title: Spatial and computational analysis to prioritize green and grey flood infrastructure under uncertainty to increase resilience

PROBABILISTIC METHODS COMMITTEE

  • Winner: Agnimitra Dasgupta, University of Southern California
    Paper Title: "REIN: Rare event simulation via importance sampling with normalizing flows"

  • Winner: WoongHee Jung, University Notre Dame
    Paper Title: Multi-fidelity Monte Carlo for real-time probabilistic storm surge predictions

POROMECHANICS COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Yidong Zhao, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
    Paper Title: A New Assumed Deformation Gradient Approach to Circumvent Volumetric Locking in Explicit Material Point Methods
  • Runner Up: Mario de Lucio Alonso, Purdue University
    Paper Title: Porohyperelastic modeling of high-dose subcutaneous injection of monoclonal antibodies using data-driven tissue geometries
  • Runner Up: Divyanshu Lal, Northwestern University
    Paper Title: Modeling the Hydromechanical Coupling Effect of Excess Pore Pressure on Compaction Bands

STABILITY COMMITTEE

  • Winner: Eduardo Montalto, UC Berkeley
    Paper Title: Buckling of short beams considering warping with application to fiber-reinforced elastomeric isolators
  • Runner Up: Victoria Ding, Johns Hopkins University
    Paper Title: Stability of thin cylindrical shells under combined bending and torsion

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING AND CONTROL COMMITTEE

  • 1st Place: Herta Montoya, Purdue University
    Paper Title: Thermomechanical Real-Time Hybrid Simulation: Identification, Control, and Experimental Implementation
  • 2nd Place: Subin Varghese, University of Houston
    Paper Title: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation of Structural Damage
  • 3rd Place: Wen Tang, Purdue University
    Paper Title: Active Perception Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Robotic Inspection