Chad M. Landis

About

The Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials (CMSSM) promotes research addressing fundamental and applied issues in the broad field of mechanics of solids, structures and materials. The field of mechanics is playing an increasingly important role in new areas such as materials science and engineering, manufacturing, and the durable design of a variety of microelectronics devices. The backgrounds and expertise of the Center’s faculty bring together the necessary focus on theoretical, experimental, and numerical approaches necessary to solve many of today’s new mechanical problems. The Center’s two main objectives are, firstly, to foster interaction between its members and develop the infrastructure required by its researchers and, secondly, to disseminate the results of the research to the public, increase the visibility of the activity, and help expand interactions with industry and other research groups.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Mechanics
• Physics
• Composite material
• Mathematics
• Computer Science
• Thermodynamics
• Mechanical engineering
• Structural engineering
• Statistical physics

Selected publications

• Phase-field fracture modeling for large structures

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2022 · 45 citations

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• Magneto-diffusion-viscohyperelasticity for magneto-active hydrogels: Rate dependences across time scales

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2020 · 42 citations

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• A new phenomenological constitutive model for shape memory alloys

  International Journal of Solids and Structures · 2021 · 28 citations

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• Domain morphology and electro-optic effect in Si-integrated epitaxial <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi>BaTi</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">O</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math> films

  Physical Review Materials · 2022-09-20 · 22 citations

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  Ferroelectric $\mathrm{BaTi}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ thin films epitaxially integrated on Si are an emergent platform for fabricating integrated electro-optical modulators using the linear electro-optic effect for applications in silicon photonics. These devices hold great promise for optical neuromorphic and quantum computing. Understanding the domain morphology of such films is essential for building ultrafast, ultralow-power electro-optic modulators. However, the domain morphology of the film is mar…

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• Formation of surface wrinkles and creases in constrained dielectric elastomers subject to electromechanical loading

  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids · 2022-08-06 · 21 citations

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Recent grants

• CAREER: Non-linear Electromechanics of Ferroelectric Ceramics

  NSF · $191k · 2007–2009

• Materials World Network: Experimental Observation and Theoretical Modeling of Domain Evolution in Ferroelectrics

  NSF · $250k · 2009–2013

• Modeling and Simulation of the Giant Electrocaloric Effect

  NSF · $250k · 2011–2015

Frequent coauthors

• Robert M. McMeeking

  King's College Hospital

  19 shared

• Thomas Pardoen

  UCLouvain

  13 shared

• Thomas J.R. Hughes

  12 shared

• Stelios Kyriakides

  11 shared

• Rui Huang

  10 shared

• Dongjie Jiang

  Peking University

  9 shared

• Michael J. Borden

  Coreform (United States)

  8 shared

• Francis Delannay

  UCLouvain

  6 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of California at Santa Barbara

  1999

Awards & honors

• Named Fellow of Society of Engineering Science (2023)

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