Research profile

Research and technical interests

I study how material architecture, contacts, and boundary conditions influence mechanical response. My work combines computational mechanics, composite testing, and numerical programming.

CURRENT PHD WORK

Fiber network mechanics

Fiber-scale finite element models help me examine contact, compression, and the effect of lateral and periodic boundary conditions on network response. I work with beam models, nonlinear contact, and simulation diagnostics to connect local interactions with bulk behavior.

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EXPERIMENTS AND MATERIALS

Composite characterization

My coauthored NASA technical report compares the quasistatic properties of continuous-fiber HexPly and discontinuous-fiber TuFF composites. The work draws on mechanical tests, stress–strain curves, and property extraction across multiple loading directions.

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PRIOR RESEARCH

Impact and damage modeling

My master's thesis developed a solid-element model of soft body armor under ballistic impact. It compared backface signature and layer penetration with a test and examined sensitivity to mesh resolution and material parameters.

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METHODS AND TOOLS

Scientific computing

I use Abaqus, LS-DYNA, Python, MATLAB, and C++ for model building, finite element analysis, data extraction, and numerical methods. My programming projects include matrix operations, structural solvers, plane elasticity, and computational fluid dynamics.

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