Research

Overview

Professor Hesam Askari leads the research team at Mechanics and Analytics Group, focusing on analytical and multi-scale computational techniques on mechanical properties of complex materials. His expertise involves developing essential analytical and experimental methods to construct frameworks for understanding the behavior of complex materials and facilitate novel applications arising from their properties.

In our group we study a wide range of applied problems in the field of solid mechanics, materials science and dynamics. The versatility in our research topic is what makes us unique and the common ingredient in our scientific approach is the application of classical mechanical engineering methods such as continuum mechanics, plasticity theory and dynamic analysis to achieve analytical explanation of complex systems. We develop and utilize a wide range of analytical tools such as molecular dynamics, dislocation dynamics, finite elements method, partial differential solutions, continuum mechanics approached and discrete elements methods to name a few. We also perform experiments to obtain data and validate our often multi-scale approaches.

Currently, we are actively working on the following projects:

• Strain Engineering of 2D-bonded Materials to tune their electrical and quantum properties
• Structure-topology-property relationship in additively manufactured lattice structures
• Vibration as a means for locomotion in complex media