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Mechanics of incompatible grain boundaries - Our work appears in JMPS
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USNCTAM 2026 in Pasadena
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Abhijith passes preliminary exam
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Matthew Merhtens awarded the NDSEG Fellowship
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A diffuse boundary method for phase boundaries in viscous compressible flow - our work appears in the Journal of Computational Physics
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Predicting grain boundary void nucleation sites in microstructure during shock loading with convolutional neural networks - Our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Alamo paper published in JOSS
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Society of Engineering Science 2025
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SMRG welcomes new PhD students
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Atomistic-informed phase field modeling of magnesium twin growth by disconnections - Our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Mike Meier receives UCCS MAE PhD Student of the Year Award
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Finite kinematics diffuse interface mechanics coupled to solidcomposite propellant deflagration - our work appears in CMAME
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Grain boundary energy and faceting with lattice matching - our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Congratulations Dr. Boyd and Dr. Meier!
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Network Plasticity for reduced order microstructure evolution modeling - Our work appears in JMPS
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GRA Opportunity: theory and analysis of polymer properties from experimental rheology
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GRA Opportunity: Thermo-mechanical simulation of solid rocket propellant
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Diffuse interface method for solid composite propellant ignition and regression - our work appears in Combustion and Flame
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Congratulations Dr. Daniel Bugas
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Emma Schmidt receives UCCS MAE PhD Student of the Year Award
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Robustly solving near-singular problems with diffuse boundaries and AMR - Our work appears in Computational Mechanics
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We are moving! The Solid Mechanics group is moving to Iowa State University in Fall 2023
How reliable are grain boundary energy calculations? Our paper comparing 225 potentials appears in Computational Materials Science
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USNCCM17 Minisymposium on Multiscale Interfacial Mechanics - Summer 2023
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In the news: Solids group research featured in the Colorado Springs Gazette
Self-similar diffuse boundary method for phase boundary driven flow - Our work appears in Physics of Fluids
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Society of Engineering Science 2022
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Comparison of evolving interfaces, triple points, and quadruple points for discrete and diffuse interface methods - Our work appears in Computational Materials Science
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MATLAB is inferior to Python in every way that matters. So why do engineers insist on using it?
A diffuse interface method for solid-phase modeling of regression behavior in solid composite propellants - Our work appears in Combustion and Flame
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NSF CAREER grant awarded to the Solid Mechanics group
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Solid Mechanics group members present at USNC/TAM 2022 in Austin, TX
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Interface History on Strain Field Evolution in Epoxy Resins - Our work appears in ACS Applied Polymer Materials
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TMS 2022
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Solid Mechanics Group presents at SciTech 2022
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A taxonomy of grain boundary migration mechanisms via displacement texture characterization - Our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Multiphase field modeling of grain boundary migration mediated by emergent disconnections - Our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Block structured adaptive mesh refinement and strong form elasticity approach to phase field fracture with applications to delamination, crack branching and crack deflection - Our work appears in CMAME
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Optimal transportation of grain boundaries: A forward model for predicting migration mechanics - Our work appears in Acta Materialia
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Office of Naval Research awards research grant to Solid Mechanics Group
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Solid Mechanics Group secures an NSF award to acquire and build INCLINE, a high performance computing cluster for UCCS
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