Publications

2018

Nandy, Krishanu, David W. Collinson, Charlie M. Scheftic, and L Catherine Brinson. “Open-source micro-tensile testers via additive manufacturing for the mechanical characterization of thin films and papers.” PloS One 13, no. 5 (January 2018): e0197999. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197999.

2017

Paul, Partha P., Harshad M. Paranjape, Behnam Amin-Ahmadi, Aaron P. Stebner, David C. Dunand, and L Catherine Brinson. “Effect of machined feature size relative to the microstructural size on the superelastic performance in polycrystalline NiTi shape memory alloys.” Materials Science and Engineering: A 706 (October 2017): 227–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2017.09.016.

Huang, Y., H. Zhao, Y. Wang, T. Ratcliff, C. Breneman, L. Catherine Brinson, W. Chen, and L. S. Schadler. “Predicting the breakdown strength and lifetime of nanocomposites using a multi-scale modeling approach.” Journal of Applied Physics 122, no. 6 (August 14, 2017). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4997720.

Zhang, M., S. Askar, J. M. Torkelson, and L. C. Brinson. “Stiffness Gradients in Glassy Polymer Model Nanocomposites: Comparisons of Quantitative Characterization by Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Atomic Force Microscopy.” Macromolecules 50, no. 14 (July 25, 2017): 5447–58. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00917.

Bessa, M. A., R. Bostanabad, Z. Liu, A. Hu, Daniel W. Apley, C. Brinson, W. Chen, and Wing Kam Liu. “A framework for data-driven analysis of materials under uncertainty: Countering the curse of dimensionality.” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 320 (June 2017): 633–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2017.03.037.

Paranjape, Harshad M., Partha P. Paul, Hemant Sharma, Peter Kenesei, Jun-Sang Park, T. W. Duerig, L Catherine Brinson, and Aaron P. Stebner. “Influences of granular constraints and surface effects on the heterogeneity of elastic, superelastic, and plastic responses of polycrystalline shape memory alloys.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 102 (May 2017): 46–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2017.02.007.

2016

Zhu, Pingping, Zhiwei Cui, Michael S. Kesler, John A. Newman, Michele V. Manuel, M Clara Wright, and L Catherine Brinson. “Characterization and modeling of three-dimensional self-healing shape memory alloy-reinforced metal-matrix composites.” Mechanics of Materials 103 (December 2016): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2016.09.005.

Bewerse, C., L. C. Brinson, and D. C. Dunand. “Porous shape-memory NiTi-Nb with microchannel arrays.” Acta Materialia 115 (August 2016): 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2016.05.056.

Zhao, H., X. Li, Y. Zhang, L. S. Schadler, W. Chen, and L. C. Brinson. “Perspective: NanoMine: A material genome approach for polymer nanocomposites analysis and design.” APL Materials 4, no. 5 (May 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4943679.

Hassinger, Irene, Xiaolin Li, He Zhao, Hongyi Xu, Yanhui Huang, Aditya Prasad, Linda Schadler, Wei Chen, and L. Catherine Brinson. “Toward the development of a quantitative tool for predicting dispersion of nanocomposites under non-equilibrium processing conditions.” Journal of Materials Science 51, no. 9 (May 2016): 4238–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-9698-1.

Wood, Charles D., Amin Ajdari, Craig W. Burkhart, Karl W. Putz, and L Catherine Brinson. “Understanding competing mechanisms for glass transition changes in filled elastomers.” Composites Science and Technology 127 (April 2016): 88–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2016.02.027.

2015

Oswald, J., G. Arya, Z. Cui, and L. C. Brinson. “Molecular Dynamics (MD) and Coarse Grain Simulation of High Strain-Rate Elastomeric Polymers (HSREP): Molecular and Coarse-Grained Methods for Microstructure-Property Relations in HSREP.” In Elastomeric Polymers with High Rate Sensitivity Applications in Blast, Shockwave, and Penetration Mechanics, edited by R. Barsoum. William Andrew, 2015.

Bewerse, C., L. C. Brinson, and D. C. Dunand. “Microstructure and mechanical properties of as-cast quasibinary NiTi–Nb eutectic alloy.” Materials Science and Engineering: A 627 (March 2015): 360–68. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.msea.2014.12.090.

Wood, Charles D., Mayank Vijayvergia, Frank H. Miller, Timothy Carroll, Charles Fasanati, Lonnie D. Shea, L Catherine Brinson, and Teresa K. Woodruff. “Multi-modal magnetic resonance elastography for noninvasive assessment of ovarian tissue rigidity in vivo.” Acta Biomaterialia 13 (February 2015): 295–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2014.11.022.

Cheng, Xu, Karl W. Putz, Charles D. Wood, and L Catherine Brinson. “Characterization of local elastic modulus in confined polymer films via AFM indentation.” Macromolecular Rapid Communications 36, no. 4 (February 2015): 391–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.201400487.

2014

Zhu, Pingping, Aaron P. Stebner, and L. Catherine Brinson. “Plastic and transformation interactions of pores in shape memory alloy plates.” Smart Materials and Structures 23, no. 10 (October 1, 2014): 104008–104008. https://doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/23/10/104008.

Bewerse, C., L. C. Brinson, and D. C. Dunand. “NiTi with 3D-interconnected microchannels produced by liquid phase sintering and electrochemical dissolution of steel tubes.” Journal of Materials Processing Technology 214, no. 9 (September 2014): 1895–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2014.04.006.

Zhu, Pingping, L Catherine Brinson, Edwin Peraza-Hernandez, Darren Hartl, and Aaron Stebner. “COMPARISON OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY CONSTITUTIVE MODELS: FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF ACTUATION AND SUPERELASTIC RESPONSES OF A SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY TUBE.” In PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASME CONFERENCE ON SMART MATERIALS ADAPTIVE STRUCTURES AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS - 2013, VOL 2. AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS, 2014.

2013

Breneman, Curt M., L Catherine Brinson, Linda S. Schadler, Bharath Natarajan, Michael Krein, Ke Wu, Lisa Morkowchuk, Yang Li, Hua Deng, and Hongyi Xu. “Stalking the Materials Genome: A Data-Driven Approach to the Virtual Design of Nanostructured Polymers.” Advanced Functional Materials 23, no. 46 (December 2013): 5746–52. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201301744.

Stebner, A. P., S. C. Vogel, R. D. Noebe, T. A. Sisneros, B. Clausen, D. W. Brown, A. Garg, and L. C. Brinson. “Micromechanical quantification of elastic, twinning, and slip strain partitioning exhibited by polycrystalline, monoclinic nickel–titanium during large uniaxial deformations measured via in-situ neutron diffraction.” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 61, no. 11 (November 2013): 2302–30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2013.05.008.

Zhu, Pingping, Aaron P. Stebner, and L Catherine Brinson. “A numerical study of the coupling of elastic and transformation fields in pore arrays in shape memory alloy plates to advance porous structure design and optimization.” Smart Materials and Structures 22, no. 9 (September 1, 2013): 094009–094009. https://doi.org/10.1088/0964-1726/22/9/094009.

Cui, Zhiwei, and L Catherine Brinson. “Thermomechanical properties and deformation of coarse-grained models of hard-soft block copolymers.” Physical Review. E, Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 88, no. 2 (August 2013): 022602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.88.022602.

Wood, Charles D., Marc J. Palmeri, Karl W. Putz, Zhi An, SonBinh T. Nguyen, and L. Catherine Brinson. “Hierarchical Structure and Properties of Graphene Oxide Papers.” Journal of Applied Mechanics 80, no. 4 (July 1, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4024177.

Stebner, A. P., D. W. Brown, and L. C. Brinson. “Measurement of elastic constants of monoclinic nickel-titanium and validation of first principles calculations.” Applied Physics Letters 102, no. 21 (May 27, 2013). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4808040.

Deymier-Black, Alix C., Anjali Singhal, Fang Yuan, Jonathan D. Almer, L Catherine Brinson, and David C. Dunand. “Effect of high-energy X-ray irradiation on creep mechanisms in bone and dentin.” Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials 21 (May 2013): 17–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2013.01.016.