REliability based Mechanical SYStem design Lab

Our research group, with expertise in the area of computational fracture mechanics and mechanics of materials based on continuum- and micro-mechanics, aims at developing enhanced solutions for structural integrity and reliability assessments of mechanical components (in particular, nuclear, gas, energy and petrochemical). Our primary research interests include reliability based mechanical system design, structural integrity assessment and materials characterization based on computational mechanics of materials (short-term and high temperature fracture, micromechanical damage mechanics, fatigue, probabilistic fracture mechanics and material constitutive modeling) as well as application of finite element analyses for computational study on mechanical behaviors of macro/micro devices. We also try to develop IT-based design and evaluation system based on 3-D digital prototype concept.