Micromechanical Analysis and Multi-Scale Modeling Using the Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method

Somnath Ghosh is the Michael G. Callas Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. Prior to this, he was the John B. Nordholt Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University until March 2011. His research has been at the leading edge of multiple-scale modeling of mechanical behavior and failure response of heterogeneous material systems such as composites, polycrystalline metals and alloys, etc., for structure-material interaction. Specific areas of his contributions include multiple-scale modeling in spatial and temporal domains, failure modeling of composite materials and structures, reliability, fatigue and failure modeling of metals, composites and thermal barrier coatings, molecular dynamics simulations of thin films and nano-composites, metal forming and casting and process design. He was awarded the prestigious NSF Young Investigator award in 1994. He is a fellow of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, ASM International, the National Materials Society, the American Academy of Mechanics, the International Association of Computational Mechanics, the U.S. Association of Computational Mechanics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.