材料力学研究小组的教师进行研究，并在材料科学和材料力学的界面上提供涉及主题的课程。一个主要主题是在适合工程分析的方法中纳入材料结构-属性关系。结合实验力学，分析和计算微力学以及理论发展来开发这些方法。<br> <br>研究领域从纳米级到宏观水平，包括纳米线和晶界的分子动力学模拟界面，离散原子和连续场/溶液之间的过渡方法，晶体缺陷的力学，与尺寸有关的弹性粘塑性和强度模型（从纳米晶体到工程结构合金的多晶），与尺寸有关的双材料界面断裂，形核和分布损伤的增长整体材料和复合材料，异质材料变形，疲劳和断裂行为的基于物
The faculty in the Mechanics of Materials Research Group conduct research and offer coursework involving topics at the interface of materials science and mechanics of materials. A major theme is the incorporation of materials structure-property relations in approaches suitable for engineering analysis. A combination of experimental mechanics, analytical and computational micromechanics, and theoretical developments are employed to develop these approaches.<br><br>Research areas range in focus from the nanoscale to the macroscopic level, and include molecular dynamics simulations of nanowires and grain boundary interfaces, methods for transitioning between discrete atomistics and continuum fields/solutions, mechanics of defects in crystals, scale dependent elastoviscoplastic and strength models of polycrystals from nanocrystalline range to engineering structural alloys, scale-dependent bimaterial interfacial fracture, nucleation and growth of distributed damage in monolithic and composite materials, physically-based multiscale constitutive models for deformation, fatigue and fracture behavior of heterogeneous materials, creepfatigue-environment interaction in failure of high temperature materials, microstructure effects in fretting and contact fatigue, structure-property relations in polymers, systems and durability modeling of solid oxide fuel cells, modeling of metal forming processes, processing and mechanics of cellular metals, systems-based materials design, and behavior of ferroelectric, shape memory and other classes of smart materials.