Ravichandran, Guruswami

Advisor — 44 thesises

• Poon, Poh Chieh Benny — A Critical Appraisal of Nanoindentation with Application to Elastic-Plastic Solids and Soft Materials (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Joshi, Akshay — A Shock Compression Investigation of Failure Waves and Phase Transition in Soda-Lime Glass (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Deshpande, Nitin Ashok — An Experimental Investigation of High-Shear-Strain-Rate Behavior of Metals (1999, Engineer's thesis)
• Chow, Benjamin Bin — Application of dynamic fracture mechanics to the investigation of catastrophic failure in aircraft structures (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jackson, Winston Paul — Characterization of Soft Polymers and Gels Using the Pressure-Bulge Technique (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fago, Matthew Justin — Constrained Sequential Lamination: Nonconvex Optimization and Material Microstructure (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Silva, Michael Lee — Damage Evolution in Composite Materials and Sandwich Structures Under Impulse Loading (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Daly, Samantha Hayes — Deformation and Fracture of Thin Sheets of Nitinol (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sternberger, Zachary Martin Murphy — Determining Strength of Materials Under Dynamic Loading Conditions Using Hydrodynamic Instabilities (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Weinong — Dynamic failure behavior of ceramics under multiaxial compression (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kettenbeil, Christian — Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Notbohm, Jacob K. — Dynamics of Cell–Matrix Mechanical Interactions in Three Dimensions (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Anderson, David Deloyd — Experimental Investigation of Quasistatic and Dynamic Fracture Properties of Titanium Alloys (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brodnik, Neal Ryan — Fracture and Toughening of Brittle Structures with Designed Anisotropy (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lawlor, Barry Patrick — Full-Field Quantitative Visualization of Shock-Driven Pore Collapse in Solids: Mechanics of Deformation, Failure, and Interaction (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Brown, Justin Lee — High Pressure Hugoniot Measurements in Solids Using Mach Reflections (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tao, Min — High Temperature Deformation of Vitreloy Bulk Metallic Glasses and Their Composite (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gu, Zichen — Interparticle Forces and Stress Transfer in Saturated and Unsaturated Granular Systems (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Burcsu, Eric Noboru — Investigation of Large Strain Actuation in Barium Titanate (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Jun — Mechanical Behavior of a Bulk Metallic Glass and Its Composite Over a Wide Range of Strain Rates and Temperatures (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kidd, Theresa Hiromi — Mechanical Characterization of Damage and Failure in Polymeric Foams and Glass/Epoxy Composites (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Rongjing — Mechanical Characterization of Thin Films with Application to Ferroelectrics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weeks, John Stephen IV — Mechanical Response of Lattice Structures under High Strain-Rate and Shock Loading (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kovalchick, Christopher — Mechanics of Peeling: Cohesive Zone Law and Stability (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oguni, Kenji — Micromechanical Aspects of Failure in Unidirectional Fiber Reinforced Composites (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ginsberg, Leah Morgan — Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Subcellular Structures in Living Walled Cells (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Toledo Barrios, Patricia Amanda — Multiscale Response of Granular Materials under Cyclic Shear: Packing State, Force Chains, and Stress Transmission (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Avellar, Louisa Taylor — Observations of Failure Phenomena in Periodic Media (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hodowany, Jon — On the conversion of plastic work into heat (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newman, Matthew Gregory — On the Kinetics of Materials of Geophysical Interest (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kramer, Sharlotte Lorraine Bolyard — Phase-Shifting Full-Field Interferometric Methods for In-Plane Tensorial Stress Determination for Fracture Studies (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Franck, Christian — Quantitative Characterization of 3D Deformations of Cell Interactions with Soft Biomaterials (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gandhi, Vatsa Bhupeshkumar — Shock Compression of Body-Centered Cubic Metals from the Atomistic to Continuum Scale: Iron and Molybdenum (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oniyama, Tomoyuki — Shock Compression of Molybdenum Single Crystals to High Stresses (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rauls, Michael Brian — Shock Wave Behavior of Particulate Composites (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Montilla Edmonds, Karina Luciel — Shock Wave Processing of Transitional Metal Silicides (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhuang, Shiming — Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• John, Kristen Kathleen — Strength of Tantalum at High Pressures through Richtmyer-Meshkov Laser Compression Experiments and Simulations (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Richmond, Victoria Stolyar — Techniques for Strength Measurement at High Pressures and Strain-Rates using Transverse Waves (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walter, Mark E. — The evolution of damage in ceramic matrix composites (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mac Donald, Kimberley Ann — Three-Dimensional Quantitative Visualization for Mechanics of Discontinuous Materials (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Srinivas, Mullahalli V. — Time dependent failure of thin films (1994, Engineer's thesis)
• Bischann, Moriah Nicole — Transverse Photonic Doppler Velocimetry for Plate Impact Experiments (2017, Senior thesis (Major))
• Zheng, Ling — Wrinkling of Dielectric Elastomer Membranes (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))