Faculty

Research Center Affiliations:

• Scientific Computation Research Center»
• Inverse Problems Center at RPI»
• Center for Automation Technologies and Systems»

General Areas of Research:

· Solid Mechanics
· Computational Solid Mechanics

Research Activities:

Professor Maniatty's general area of research is in the broad field of computational solid mechanics. Specific problems being currently investigated include modeling polycrystalline materials and inverse problems. In the area of modeling polycrystalline materials, work is being done to use micromechanics as a basis for modeling large strain metal forming problems and for predicting fatigue crack initiation. Work is also being done to model stresses and defect formation in metallic interconnects due to thermal loading and electromigration. The other area of research involves inverse problems. This work investigates problems with either unknown boundary conditions or unknown parameters. Currently, work is being done in the area of reconstructing mechanical properties in human tissue from ultrasonic and MR measurements of interior dynamic displacements for medical imaging.