SIA NEMAT-NASSER

Director of the Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials (CEAM)
Distinguished Professor of Mechanics and Materials

EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy, 1964
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Master of Science, 1961
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTEREST

Experimentally-based analytical/computational, nano-scale modeling of response and failure modes of materials, particularly multifunctional structural systems, e.g., structural composites with tunable electromagnetic functionality, thermal management, self-healing, self-sensing and metamaterials with negative refractive index; polyelectrolytes and ionic polymer metal composites as soft-actuators and sensors; shape-memory alloys; bio-hybrid interfaces and their short- and long-term functionality; advanced metals and ceramics; elastomers; granular materials; and hybrid composites.

CURRENT RESEARCH TOPICS

• Multiscale Multifunctional Materials: self-healing, self-sensing, and electronically tuned composites
• Adaptive Materials for Energy-Absorbing Hybrid Structures
• Dynamic Response of Elastomers (particularly polyurea and polyurethane)
• Dynamic and Quasi-Static Response of Shape-Memory Alloys and Structures
• Self-assembling Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes
• Structural Composites with Tuned EM Chirality
• Microstructural Design for Stress Wave Energy Management
• Elastomeric Polymer-by-Design for Blast-Induced Shock-Wave Management
• Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture

ACADEMIC CAREER

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RECOGNITION

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS (Current):

• American Academy of Mechanics
  - Member, Honors (Awards) Committee (2005-)
  - President (1996-97)
  - President-Elect (1995-96)
  - Secretary (1989-1994)
  - Founding Fellow (1970 - present) - Timoshenko Medal Committee, Member (2009-2014)
• American Association of University Professors (since 1983)
• American Society of Civil Engineers
  - Charter Member of Engineering Mechanics Institute (2009)
  - Lifetime Membership Certification 2003
  - Engineering Mechanics Division:
  - Committee on Inelastic Behavior (1983-85) (1992-95)
  - Member (1975)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  - Honorary Member (2005)
  - Lifetime Membership Certification for 35 years of support (2001-)
  - Fellow (1979)
  - Applied Mechanics Division:
  • Timoshenko Medal Committee, Member (2009-2014)
  • Committee on Geomechanics, Member (1992-1995)
  • Committee on Geomechanics, Chairman (1981-85)
  • Program Committee, Member (1979-82)
  - Materials Division:
  
  • Executive Committee, Member (1993-98)
  • Chair (1997-98)
  - Materials & Structures Technical Group:
  • International Congress Group Representative (1995)
• International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences (ISCES)
  - Founding Member (1999-)
• International Technology Institute (2003-)
• National Academy of Engineering
  - Member, 2001
  - Co-Chair Section 10 Search Committee (2007-2010)
  - Member, 2009 Nominating Committee
• Society of Engineering Science
  - Silver Member Certification for 24 years of support (2009 -)
  - Fellow (1988 - present)
  - Committee on Geophysical and Geotechnical Phenomena, Chairman (1984)
  - President (1979-80)
• Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) (1999-) 
• The American Society for Metals (ASM) International (1987- )
• The Mathematical Association of America (2004 –)
• The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (1996-)
• The Society for Experimental Mechanics (1984- )
- Fellow (2011 - present)

• World Innovation Foundation (2004-)

SERVICE TO SCHOLARLY BOOKS AND JOURNALS

• Editor of Mechanics Today, series of books (Vols. 1-6 published by Pergamon Press on behalf of the American Academy of Mechanics) (1974-1976, 1978, 1980-1981)
• Co-Editor of Mechanics of Elastic and Inelastic Solids, series of seven books, published by two publishers;  Martinus Nijhofff and Kluwer Academic (1980 - 1989)
• Editor, Three Dimensional Constitutive Relations and Ductile Fracture, North Holland Publishing (1981)
• Editor-in-Chief, international journal Mechanics of Materials (1982 - present)
• Editor, Mech. Mater. "Inelastic Deformation and Failure Modes,” Vol. 4 (1985)
• Honorary Editorial Advisory Board Member, Iranian Journal of Science and Technology (until l979)
• Advisory Board Member, international journal Mechanics-Research Communications (until 1985)
• Editorial Board Member, international Journal of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering (1980-1990)
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, Microcomputers in Civil Engineering
• Editorial Advisory Board Member, international journal Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1990-1994)
• Editorial Board Member, international journal Mechanics and Materials in Design (2001-)
• Editorial Board Member, journal Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures (2004-)

PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES:

Has authored, co-authored, or edited over twenty books and proceedings, and has organized over forty scientific workshops and meetings, including organization of the 2001 Mechanics and Materials Summer Conference, jointly sponsored by ASME's Materials and Applied Mechanics Divisions, ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division and the Society of Engineering Science.  He has published over 470 scientific articles and has presented over 430 lectures and seminars at scientific meetings and at various institutions, with more than thirty-five being plenary or keynote lectures.

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