I have been a PI or CO-PI on nine externally funded research projects, upcoming, ongoing and concluded (PI on seven), with total funding $2.1M ($1.8M my share). See "Research Interests" for more information on the research this is supporting.

Ongoing and upcoming projects:

• STTR Phase II: High Temperature Fracture Mechanics (co-PI). Karagozian & Case, Inc. 
  

• Enhanced Reproducing Kernel Particle Method for Strong Shock Hydrodynamics (PI). Karagozian & Case, Inc. 

 

• CAREER: A Hybrid Local-Nonlocal Peridynamics Framework to Model Failure Across Deformations and Strain Rates (PI).  The National Science Foundation. 

  

• A Discrete Continuum Particle Method for Understanding Micro-structural Failure of Concrete (PI). US Army ERDC.

 

• A Combined Computational-Experimental Approach to Study Three-Dimensional Fracture in Polymer-Ceramic Composites (PI). The National Science Foundation. 

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Concluded projects:

• STTR Phase I: High Temperature Fracture Mechanics (co-PI). Karagozian & Case, Inc. ​

 

• Enhanced Reproducing Kernel Particle Method: Variationally Consistent Naturally Stabilized Nodal Integration (PI). Karagozian & Case, Inc. 

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• Development and Experimental Validation of Variational Collocation Meshfree Simulation of Fracture of Nanoparticle Toughened Composite Materials (PI). The Pennsylvania State University.

 

• Benchmarking the Reproducing Kernel Particle Method for Geotechnical Operations (PI). CNH Industrial America, L.L.C. 

 

• Evaluation of Concrete Materials Performance in Aging Structures (Co-PI). The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, L.L.C.

Updated 2/17/2021