Ashkan received the Kolodzey Travel Award from the CAEE department at UT Austin, which allowed him to attend the MPM Workshop in Berkeley, CA, where he presented his research on Mechanics of Polymeric Porous Membranes using a Stabilized Extended B-Spline Material Point Method.
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Ashkan Ali Madadi Presents at the 15th Annual MPM Workshop
Congratulations to Our Lab’s Ph.D. Students on Receiving the George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Fellowship
Three of our lab’s Ph.D. students—Ashkan Ali Madadi, Ekim Ekiz, and Jun Wang—have been awarded the George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Fellowship from the Cockrell School of Engineering for the 2024-2025 academic year. This fellowship recognizes and supports their outstanding research and contributions in their fields.
Ashkan Ali Madadi Presents at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2024
Ashkan Ali Madadi, a Ph.D. student in our lab, presented his research titled “Stabilized Extended B-Spline Material Point Method for Multi-Field Soft Materials with Nitsche Imposition of Boundary Conditions” at the Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference (EMI 2024). The conference was held in Chicago from May 28 to 31. Congratulations to Ashkan!
Ashkan Ali Madadi and Ekim Ekiz Present Collaborative Research at the Fracture of Soft Materials Symposium
Ashkan Ali Madadi and Ekim Ekiz, Ph.D. students in our lab, presented their collaborative research titled “Modeling Nearly Incompressible Behavior in Soft Solids Using the Material Point Method” at the Fracture of Soft Materials Symposium, held in Austin from May 12 to 16, 2024. Their work, co-authored with Richard Noh, was showcased during the poster session.
Prof. Berkin Receives CAEE’s 2024 Faculty Teaching Award
Ashkan Ali Madadi Presents at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2024
End-of-Year Gathering 2023!
Our group attends the 2023 SES Conference in Minneapolis
Minneapolis, October 8-11, 2023
PhD students, Ashkan, Derya, Jun, and Ekim, participated in the 2023 Society of Engineering Science Annual Technical Meeting in Minneapolis.
Ashkan presented on “a subdivision-stabilized isogeometric material point method for strongly coupled diffusion in hydrogels, a new Eulerian-Lagrangian formulation for highly deformable materials with diffusion.
Derya’s presentation, “elasto-adhesive vs. elasto-capillary: modeling the energetic competition between adhesion and surface effects in soft-soft interfaces”, focused on modeling and validation of soft hydrogel interfaces.
Dr. Dortdivanlioglu co-hosted the session Adhesion, Friction, and Fracture at Soft Interfaces: Theory and Experiment at the conference.
