News

7/5/2024, new paper entitled "A Mixed Formulation of the Plane-Stress Problem to Facilitate Reuse of Constitutive Models in Finite-Element Programs" has been accepted for publication in Mechanics Research Communications.

6/5/2024, new paper entitled "A Generalized Peridynamic Material Correspondence Formulation Using Non-Spherical Influence Functions" has been accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

4/28/2024, new paper entitled "Micro-CT image-based computation of effective thermal and mechanical properties of fibrous porous materials" has been accepted for publication in Composites Part B: Engineering.

11/15/2023, new paper entitled "Influence Functions for Accurate Representation of Bond Deformation in Discrete Modeling" has been accepted for publication in Mechanics Research Communications.

10/10/2023, new paper entitled "Numerical Modeling Thermo-Hygro-Mechanical Coupling of Cross-Ply Laminate Composites Using a Nonlocal Discrete Approach" has been accepted for publication in Composite Structures.

08/01/2023, we have a new group member joined our group in Fall 2023 semester. Welcome Khaleda!

06/24/2023, new paper entitled "Numerical Modelling of Brittle Fracture using Lattice Particle Method with Applications to Fluid Structure Interaction Problems via SPH Coupling" has been accepted for publication in the Engineering Fracture Mechanics.

04/18/2023, new paper entitled "Modeling Material Length-Scale Effect Using the Second-Order Peridynamic Material Correspondence Model" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Engineering Science.

04/16/2023, new paper entitled "Numerical verification of a nonlocal discrete model for anisotropic heat conduction problems" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences.

04/3/2023, new paper entitled "Modeling Thermoelasticity of HCP Single Crystals Using a Nonlocal Discrete Approach" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Solids and Structures.

03/20/2023, our NASA EPSCoR RA proposal on "Investigation of Material Surface Erosion and Failure due to High-Velocity Particle Impact" has been selected for award. Congratulations to the whole proposal team!

12/16/2022, WaiLam has graduated with a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. The FIRST PhD graduated in the group! His research was on Peridynamic material correspondence models: Bond-associated and higher-order formulations. Congratulations to Dr. Chan!

12/09/2022, Di has successfully passed the PhD oral qualifying exam with research topic on modeling hexagonal close packed polycrystal systems using a nonlocal discrete approach. Congratulations to Di!

07/18/2022, new paper entitled "A three-dimensional fluid-structure interaction model based on SPH and lattice-spring method for simulating complex hydroelastic problems" has been accepted for publication in the Ocean Engineering.

07/18/2022, new paper entitled "Formulation of a Nonlocal Discrete Model for Anisotropic Heat Conduction Problems" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Thermal Sciences.

07/07/2022, new paper entitled "Peridynamic bond‐associated correspondence model: Reformulation and comparison study" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

11/29/2021, new paper entitled "Modeling Elasticity of Cubic Crystals Using a Novel Nonlocal Lattice Particle Method" has been accepted for publication in the Computational Mechanics.

10/11/2021, both Donglai and Di have successfully passed the PhD written qualifying exam. The three chosen subjects are Mathematics, Mechanics of Solids, and Dynamics (Donglai) / Fluid Mechanics (Di). Congratulations to Donglai and Di!

08/09/2021, new paper entitled "Numerical Computation of Fluid-Solid Mixture Flow using the SPH-VCPM-DEM Method" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluids and Structures.

08/05/2021, we have a new group member joined our group in Fall 2021 semester. Welcome Di!

05/08/2021, new paper entitled "Peridynamic bond-associated correspondence model: Wave dispersion property" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

10/05/2020, Dr. Chen was appointed as an Associate Editor of the CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences journal.

08/31/2020, we have a new group member joined our group in Fall 2020 semester. Welcome Donglai!

08/31/2020, new paper entitled "Higher-Order Peridynamic Material Correspondence Models for Elasticity" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Elasticity.

08/07/2020, new paper entitled "A Coupled Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Volume Compensated Particle Method (SPH-VCPM) for Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) Modeling" has been accepted for publication in the Ocean Engineering.

08/01/2020, new paper entitled "Modeling Plasticity of Cubic Crystals Using a Nonlocal Lattice Particle Method" has been accepted for publication in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.

04/03/2020, new paper entitled "A Nonlocal Lattice Particle Model for J2 Plasticity" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

11/16 - 11/19/2019, our work on "Thermomechanical Modeling of Fracture in Ceramic Nuclear Fuel: a Peridynamics Approach" and "A Peridynamic Correspondence Model using Higher-Order Deformation Gradient" were presented at the ASME IMECE2019 conference, Salt Lake City, UT.

07/29 - 08/01/2019, Dr. Chen presented work on "A Comparison Study on Deformation Gradients in Peridynamics" at the USNCCM15, Austin, TX.

06/18 - 06/21/2019, Dr. Chen presented work on "A Peridynamic Strain Tensor" at the EMI2019, Caltech, CA.

03/01/2019, WaiLam has successfully passed the PhD written qualifying exam. The subjects he has chosen are Mathematics, Mechanics of Solids and Heat Transfer. Congratulations to WaiLam!

01/17 - 01/18/2019, Dr. Chen attended the USACM Thematic Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Solid and Structural Materials Modeling at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

01/07 - 01/11/2018, Dr. Chen presented work on "An Integrated Computational Framework for Microstructure-Sensitive Materials Modeling" at the SciTech2019, San Diego, CA.

11/12 - 11/15/2018, Dr. Chen presented work on "Peridynamics as a Module in MOOSE Framework" at the IMECE2018, Pittsburgh, PA.

11/02/2018, new paper entitled "A Comparison Study on Peridynamic Models Using Irregular Non-uniform Spatial Discretization" has been accepted for publication in the Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering journal.

10/23/2018, Dr. Chen attended the 2nd Annual Commonwealth Computational Summit (CCS). The summit was hold by the University of Kentucky’s Center for Computational Science (CCS) at the Bill Gatton Student Center Ballroom. It aims to bring together expert on Computation, Big Data, High Performance Computing, Data Mining, Informatics, Bioinformatics, Complex Modeling and Simulation or Future Technologies from across the Commonwealth as well as to those in our region interested in computational engineering, science and data analytics.

10/05/2018, new paper entitled "Peridynamic Bond-Associated Correspondence Model: Stability and Convergence Properties" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

10/09-10/12/2018, Dr. Chen presented work, "A Comparison Study on Peridynamic Models Using Irregular Non-uniform Spatial Discretization", at the USACM thematic conference on Meshfree and Particle Methods: Theory and Application at Santa Fe, New Mexico.

08/22/2018, WaiLam Chan joins the group. Welcome, WaiLam!

08/13/2018, our research group website is online.

4/04/2018, new paper entitled "Constructing continuum-like measures based on a nonlocal lattice particle model: Deformation gradient, strain and stress tensors" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Solids and Structures.