Kyung-Suk Kim
Professor:
Engineering
Phone: +1 401 863 1456
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2865
Kyung-Suk_Kim@Brown.EDU
Professor Kim's research interest is in the interdisciplinary area of solid mechanics of small scale material structures, or the nano and micromechanics of solids. He is currently directing the Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory where research is aimed at the advancement of science and technology for proper development and improvement of technological infrastructures for the transition from an industrial society to an information society.
Biography
Kyung-Suk Kim is currently a Professor of Engineering and a member of Solids and Structures Group at Brown University, directing the Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory. Professor Kim has played a central role in understanding and utilizing mechanical behavior of nanostructures by developing creative theories and conducting precision experiments. In particular, he leads his respective field of research by providing fundamental theories for the motion and deformation as well as for the formation and assembly of nanostructures.
Interests
Professor Kim's research interest is in the interdisciplinary area of solid mechanics of small scale material structures, or the nano and micromechanics of solids. He is currently directing the Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory where research is aimed at the advancement of science and technology for proper development and improvement of technological infrastructures for the transition from an industrial society to an information society. The issues of research include engineering analysis, design, manufacturing and technical-assessment technology of advanced structural materials as well as microelectronic devices. For his research he has invented several new scientific instruments and analytical methods. These include the Transverse Displacement Interferometer (1976), Stress Intensity Factor Tracer (1984), Analysis of Elasto-plastic Peel Test (1985), Large-Deformation Laser Moire Microscope (1989), Ceramic-Metal Composite Article and Joining Method (U.S.Pat-5,108,025; 4/28/92), Computational Fourier Transform Moire (CFTM) Analyzer (1993) and Field Projection Method of Deformation Characterization (1996). Professor Kim received the Melville Medal with R.J. Clifton from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, in 1981, for the invention of the Transverse Displacement Interferometer. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996 for his work in "Mechanical Behavior of Solid Nano Structures." He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society for Experimental Mechanics, the Adhesion Society, the Materials Research Society and the American Physical Society. He served as the Chairman of the Experimental Mechanics Committee, Applied Mechanics Division, ASME, 1991-93. Before joining the faculty at Brown, he spent one year (1979-1980) at Caltech as a Research Fellow in the Aeronautics Department and taught in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, as Assistant (1980-1986) and Associate (1986-1989) Professor. He has also held visiting faculty positions at Harvard (1987-1988), Cambridge University, U.K. (1996), and the University of California, Santa Barbara (1997).
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Degrees
PhD
Awards
Melville Medal, with R.J. Clifton, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1981.
Instructors Ranked as Excellent by Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1982, 1983 and 1984.
Distinguished Invited Speaker, Adhesion Society, 1994
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Award, 1996.
The 1999 Best JEP Paper Award, with A.-F. Bastawros, ASME, 1999
Midwest Mechanics Seminar Speaker of the year 2000
Southwest Mechanics Seminar Speaker of the year 2003 -04.
Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, with honorarium of $200,000.-, 2005.
Affiliations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society for Experimental Mechanics
Adhesion Society
Materials Research Society
American Physical Society
Chairman of Experimental Mechanics Committee, Applied Mechanics Division ASME, (1991-93)
Technical Advisory Board, Society for Experimental Mechanics, (2001-04)
Advisory Board of Engineering College, Seoul National University, (2006-08)
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses:
EN 3 Introduction to Engineering and Statics
EN 4 Dynamics and Vibrations
EN 31 Mechanics of Solids and Structures
EN 81 Fluid Mechanics
EN 100 Design and Project
EN 130 Structural Analysis
EN 131 Planning and Design of Systems: (project)
EN 137 Advanced Dynamics
EN 186 Advanced Fluid Dynamics
Graduate Courses:
EN 221 Continuum Mechanics
EN 222 Solid Mechanics
EN 224 Linear Elasticity
EN 226 Stress Waves
EN 228 Non-equilibrium Thermomechanics of Defects in Solids
EN 232 Experimental Mechanics
EN 237 Nano and micromechanics of solids
EN 238 Advanced Fracture Mechanics
EN 291-A, Research Seminar in Mechanics of Materials
EN 292s25 Nano and Micro Mechanics of Solid Interfaces
EN 297 Reading Course: Problems in Anisotropic Elasticity
