The main interest is bridging the gap between the traditional areas of solid mechanics and materials science, in both, materials processing and applications with particularly interest in numerical methods: formulation of the problem based on the micro-physics of the process and its computational implementation. Specifically, current interests include:
• plasticity of crystals and interfaces
• micromechanics of granular materials
• computational methods for coupled moving boundaries problems (phase transformations, wetting)
• collective behavior of carbon nanotubes
• multiscale/multiphysics modeling
• contact and adhesion mechanics