Hong Group Mechanics of Materials and Structures

Open Positions

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

Welcome to the Hong Group!

Group News

• Congratulations Xiao, on receiving the Graduate Research Excellence Award!
• Congratulations Dr. Yi Han, on defending your thesis!

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 and X. Wang, A phase-field model for systems with coupled large deforamtion and mass transport. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 61, 1281-1294 (2013);
• X. Wang and W. Hong, A visco-poroelastic theory for polymeric gels. Proc. R. Soc. A DOI:10.1098/rspa.2012.0385.
• X. Wang and W. Hong, Delayed fracture in gels. Soft Matter 8, 8171 (2012); DOI: 10.1039/C2SM25553G.
• Y. Han, W. Hong, and L. Faidley, Field-stiffening effect of magneto-rheological elastomers. I. J. Solids. Struct. 50, 2281-2288 (2013).
• X. Wang and W. Hong, Pseudo-elasticity of double network gels. Soft Matter, 7, 8576-8581 (2011) DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05787A

Teaching

• EM 274 Statics
• EM 324 Mechanics of Materials
• EM 425 Introduction to Finite Element Method
• EM 516 Mechanics of Deformable Solids
• EM 525 Finite Element Method
• EM 564 Fracture and Fatigue
• AerE 243 Aerodynamics I
• AerE 321 Flight Structures Analysis and Laboratory

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