PhD Theses

Theses

2025

Topology optimization: From spatially varying loads to elastoplasticity
Emily Alcazar
Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Princeton University

2024

Extensions of topology optimization for additive manufacturing
Yeming Xian
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Multi-scale architected material structural optimization for lightweight structures and elasto-static cloaking: From design to additive manufacturing
Fernando da Senhora V
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2021

Nonlinear Topology Optimization: Theory and Applications
Tuo Zhao
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topology optimization of cables, cloaks, and embedded lattices
Emily Sanders
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Multifunctional origami: from architected metamaterials to untethered robots
Larissa Novelino
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2020

Topology optimization of single- and multi-material structures: From single-physics to multi-physics designs
O Giraldo-Londoño
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2019

Origami and tensegrity: structures and metamaterials
Ke Liu
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2018

Virtual elements and barycentric finite elements in computational mechanics
Heng Chi
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Topology optimization with multiple materials, multiple constraints, and multiple load cases
Xiaojia Zhang
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

2016

Tailoring stiffness of deployable origami
Evgueni Filipov
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Reliability-Based Topology Optimization Frameworks for the Design of Structures Subjected to Random Excitations
Junho Chun
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2015

Computational simulation of fracture propagation in rock materials under coupled hydro-mechanical conditions
Luis Camones
Department of Civil Engineering, PUC-Rio
Failure Processes in Soft and Quasi-Brittle Materials with Nonhomogeneous Microstructures
Daniel Spring
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Adaptive Finite Element Simulation of Fracture: From Plastic Deformation to Crack Propagation
Sofia Leon
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2014

Structural Optimization: From Continuum and Ground Structures to Additive Manufacturing
Tomás Zegard
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2013

Polytope-based Topology Optimization Using a Mimetic-Inspired Method
Arun Gain
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Building Science Through Topology Optimization
Lauren Beghini
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2012

Restriction Methods for Shape and Topology Optimization
Cameron Talischi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2010

System Reliability-Based Design and Multiresolution Topology Optimization
Tam Nguyen
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2009

Asphalt Pavement Aging and Temperature Dependent Properties Using Functionally Graded Viscoelastic Model
Eshan Dave
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Potential-Based Fracture Mechanics Using Cohesive Zone and Virtual Internal Bond Modeling
Kyoungsoo Park
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Functionally Graded Fiber-Reinforced Cementitious Composites – Manufacturing and Extraction of Cohesive Fracture Properties using Finite Elements and Digital Image Correlation
Bin Shen
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2007

Krylov Subspace Methods for Topology Optimization on Adaptive Meshes
Shun Wang
Department of Computer Science, UIUC
Extrinsic Cohesive Modeling of Dynamic Fracture and Microbranching Instability Using A Topological Data Structure
Zhengyu Zhang
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2006

Fracture of Asphalt Concrete: A Cohesive Zone Modeling Approach Considering Viscoelastic Effects
Seong Song
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2005

Galerkin boundary element modeling of three-dimensional functionally graded material systems
Alok Sutradhar
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC
Domain-integral methods for computation of fracture-mechanics parameters in three-dimensional functionally-graded solids
Matthew Walters
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2003

Mixed-mode crack propagation in functionally graded materials
Jeong-Ho Kim
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UIUC

2001

Hypersingular integrodifferential equations and applications to fracture mechanics of homogeneous and functionally graded materials with strain-gradient effects
Youn-Sha Chan
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UC Davis