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Surface Residual Stress Measurement using Curvature Interferometry

Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory

The Nano & Micromechanics Laboratory is part of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures Group in the Division of Engineering at Brown University.  It was established in 1989 as the Micromechanics Laboratory, and started nanomechanics research in 1990.  Research and education carried out in this laboratory are associated with the experimental, computational and theoretical study of nanomechnics and micromechanics of materials.

Fabrication and characterization of nano-structures are also carried out with the facilities  of national and international nanotechnology networks such as NNIN, KIST, etc.

Division of Engineering

Visitors                    since 06/20/2006

05/24/09 Brian Burke got his Ph.D degree, and Hsiao-Mei Wu and Alexander Pinkham got their Master degrees on this day. Congratulations!

 

05/08/09 Dr. HS Shin of KIST has been elected to the U.S. National Academy of Science as a foreign member. Congratulations! Full list of new members.

 

04/07/09 Dr. Sang-Pil Kim joined the group as a research postdoctoral fellow. (See here)

 

03/27/09 Dr. Jin Woo Yi joined the group as a research postdoctoral fellow. (See here)

 

03/25/09 The nano and micromechanics laboratory has begun to participate in three-party  collaborative research on developing nano and microstructures for energy and environment materials. The colaboration is made among the Computational Science Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, the Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory at Brown University and the Computational Nanomaterials Laboratory at Seoul National University, forming the Advanced Hybrid Computational Science Laboratory at KIST. The research is based on hybridization of advanced multi-sclae experiment and high performance computing.

 

03/24/09 Prof. Kyung-Suk Kim gave a seminar on ¡°Cross-scale engineering of nano and microstructures; Supercomputing simulations and Scale-bridging experiments¡± at Seoul National University.

 

02/02/09 Welcome new grad students. (See here) & Congratulations for Brian Burke¡¯s promotion to Principal Engineer in Stanley and Bostitch.

 

 

12/01/08 A paper titled ¡°Multi-asperity contact: A comparison between discrete dislocation and crystal plasticity predictions¡° by L. Nicola, A. F. Bower, K.-S. Kim, A. Needleman and E. Van der Giessen has been published in Philosophical Magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

MD simulation of sonication-induced CNT buckling

Text Box: 10 x 10 CNT
in water

Publications

Thomas A. Mutch Lecture Series

 

Life in extreme environments and the search for life in the universe

Lynn Rothschild, NASA

Thursday, April 30 at 4:00pm in MacMillan 115

 

  D. K. Ward, D. Farkas, J. Lian, W. A. Curtin, J. Wang, K.-S. Kim, and Y. Qi, ¡°Engineering size-scaling of plastic deformation in nanoscale asperities,¡± Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, in press.

 

  Huck Beng Chew, Soonsung Hong and Kyung-Suk Kim, ¡°Cohesive zone laws for void growth - II. Numerical field projection

of elasto-plastic fracture processes with vapor pressure,¡± Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, in press.

 

  Soonsung Hong, Huck Beng Chew and Kyung-Suk Kim, ¡°Cohesive zone laws for void growth - I. Experimental field projection of crack-tip crazing in glassy polymers,¡± Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, in press.

 

Qunyang Li and Kyung-Suk Kim, ¡°Micromechanics of rough surface adhesion: a homogenized projection method,¡± Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, in press.

 

Shuman Xia Yue Qi, Tom Perry and Kyung-Suk Kim, ¡°Strength characterization of Al/Si interfaces: A hybrid method of nanoindentation and finite element analysis,¡± Acta Materialia. Vol. 57, Issue 3, pp. 695-707, 2009.

 

Recent Papers (last three months)