Decomposition techniques for computational limit analysis 

    Rabiei, Nima (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)

    Limit analysis is relevant in many practical engineering areas such as the design of mechanical structure or the analysis of soil mechanics. The theory of limit analysis assumes a rigid, perfectly-plastic material to model ...

    Machine learning in multiscale modeling and simulations of molecular systems 

    Hashemian, Behrooz (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)

    Collective variables (CVs) are low-dimensional representations of the state of a complex system, which help us rationalize molecular conformations and sample free energy landscapes with molecular dynamics simulations. ...

    Point-set manifold processing for computational mechanics: thin shells, reduced order modeling, cell motility and molecular conformations 

    Millán, Daniel (Date of defense: 2012-11-12)

    In many applications, one would like to perform calculations on smooth manifolds of dimension d embedded in a high-dimensional space of dimension D. Often, a continuous description of such manifold is not known, and instead ...