Hong Group Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Open Positions

Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to contact Prof. Hong for ongoing research projects.

Wei Hong

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Aerospace Engineering
Dept. of Material Sciences and Engineering (courtesy)
Iowa State University
2271 Howe Hall - Room 2239
Ames, IA 50011
telephone: (515) 294-8850
whongiastate.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Interest

• Mechanics of soft active materials.
• Modeling and Simulation.
• Fracture, deformation and mass transport.
• Evolving microstructures of materials.
• Continuum mechanics and computational methods.
• Biomechanics.

Recent Papers

• W. Hong, Z. Liu, and Z. Suo, Inhomogeneous swelling of a gel in equilibrium with a solvent and mechanical load. Submitted for publication.
• W. Hong, X. Zhao, Z. Suo, Drying-induced bifurcation in a hydrogel-actuated nanostructure. Submitted for publication.
• W. Hong, X. Zhao, J. Zhou, and Z. Suo, A theory of coupled diffusion and large deformation in polymeric gels, J. Mech. Phy. Solids, 56, 1779-1793 (2008).
• J. Zhou, W. Hong, X. Zhao, Z. Zhang, and Z. Suo, Propagation of instability in dielectric elastomers, Int. J. Solids Struct, 45, 3739-3750 (2008).
• X. Zhao, W. Hong and Z. Suo, Electromechanical coexistent states and hysteresis in dielectric elastomers, Phy. Rev. B, 76,134113 (2007).

Teaching

• EM274 Statics

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