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Suresh Moorthy

 
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 Biography

Research Interests
  • Computational Mechanics, Materials 

Current and Pending Research Projects
  • Parallelization and visualization of computational atomistic modeling to study deformation and damage in nanocomposites, Sponsor: Graduate School, Lousiana State Univeristy
  • NIRT: Nanoclay Mediated Active Nanostructures (NanoC-MAN)- A Generic template for Multifunctionalitites, Sponsor: NSF-NIRT (Pending, Co-PI)
  • Multiscale Modelling of Deformation/Damage During Preform Casting of MetalMatrix Composites, Sponsor: NSF-NIRT (PendingI)

Education
  • Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1997, Dissertation: “The Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method for Response and Damage Analysis of Arbitrary Heterogeneous Media”,  published, 1997
  • M.S. University of Alabama, 1992
  • B.S. Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, 1989

Professional Experience
  • 2001-present 
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University
  • 1997-2001
Post doctoral research associate, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State Univeristy
  • 1992-1997
Research assistant, Dept. of Applied Mechanics, Ohio State Univeristy
  • 1989-1992
Research assistant, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Univeristy of Alabama

Professional Society Memberships
  • American Society of Civil Engineering
  • US Association of Computational Mechanics
  • American Society of Mechanical Engineering

Courses Taught
  • CE 2720 Computational Methods in Civil Engineering-I
  • CE3460 Statics
  • CE3400 Mechanics of Materials
  • Ce4440 Advanced Mechanics of Materials
  • CE4450 Finite Element Method
  • Ce7405 Statically Indeterminate Structures
  • CE7455 Finite Element Method in Engineering
  • CE7480 Plasticity and Viscoelasticity

Selected Journal Publications
  • S. Moorthy and S. Ghosh, " A three dimensional Voronoi Cell Finite Element Method for Analysis of Heterogeneous Materials", Computational Mechanics, Vol. 34, 510-531, (2004)
  • R.Prasanna, S. Moorthy, S.Ghosh and N.J. Pagano, "Revisiting the Composite Laminate Problem with an Adaptive Mult-level Computational Scheme", Composite Science and technology, Vol. 61, pp. 1017-1040, (2001)
  • S. Moorthy and S. Ghosh, "Adaptivity and Convergence in Voroonoi Cell Finite Element Model for Analyzing Heterogeneous Microstructures" Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 185, pp. 37-74, (2000)
  • S. Ghosh, M. Li, S. Moorthy and K. Lee, "Microstructural Characterization, Meso-scale Modelling and Multiple Scale Analysis in Discretely Reinforced Materials", Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 249, 62-70 (1998)
  • S. Ghosh and S. Moorthy, "Particle Cracking Simulation in Non-Uniform Microstructures of Metal-Matrix Composites", Acta Metallurgica et Materillia, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp 965-982, (1998)

Selected Conference Proceedings
  • S. Moorthy and W. Wang "Computational material modeling of nanoindentation in single crystal metals at finite temperatures", International Symposium on Plasticity, Anchorage, Alaska, (2007) (accepted for publication)
  • S. Moorthy and W. Wang "Computational material modeling of of hardness in nanocomposites", ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, Blacksburg, Virginia, (2007) (accepted for publication)
  • S. Moorthy, S. Ghosh and H. Chao, "A Voronoi Cell Finite Element Model for Ductile Damage in MMCs", NUMIFORM, Columbus, Ohio, June '04
  • S. Moorthy, S. Ghosh and Y.S. Liu, "Voronoi Cell Finite ELement Model for Micropolar Elastic-Plastic Heterogeneous Media", Proceedings of 13th Army Symposium om Solid Mechanics, S.C. Chou, F.D. Bartlett, T.W. Wright and K. Iyer eds., pp 527-538, (1994)
  • S. Moorthy and S. Ghosh, "An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Finite Element Model for Heat Transfer Analysis of Solidification processes", Numerical Methods in Industrial processes, J.L. Chenot, R.D. Wood and O.C. Zienkiewicz eds., pp 805-882, (1992)
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