Seven EMI-MIT Presentations by Sun Research Group (Room 4-231 Thursday afternoon to Friday morning)

Our research group will present our latest findings in 7 oral presentations at ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference at MIT on Thursday (May 31st) and Friday (June 1st) . The schedule of the presentations is listed below in chronological order. Most of the presentations will be given at Room 4-231 (see the map below). Please note that the lectures might not begun on time. 

1. ​​Crystallization-induced fracture talk by former research scientist Dr. Junhyun Choo (now assistant professor at HKU) (MS 47: Room 2-159 11:45am Thursday)
2. Brittle-ductile transition talk by former associate research scientist Dr. Junhyun Choo (now assistant professor at HKU) (MS 27: Room 4-231 3:15pm Thursday)
3. Deep learning enhanced unsaturated poromechanics talk by 4th year PhD student Kun Wang and 1st year PhD student Nikolas Vlassis (MS 27: Room 4-231 4:45pm Thursday)
4. Micromrocphic regularization talk by 4th year PhD student SeonHong Na (MS 27: Room 4-231 5:00pm Thursday)
5. Crystalline rock salt talk by 4th year PhD student SeonHong Na (MS 27: Room 4-231 5:15pm Thursday)
6. Hybridization of hand-crafted and machine learning models talk by 4th year PhD student Kun Wang (MS 27: Room 4-231 5:30pm Thursday)
7. Mixed-mode phase field fracture talk by 2nd year PhD student Eric Bryant (MS 27: Room 4-231 9:30am Friday)

Part of the research findings have been published in the following journal articles: 

1. J. Choo", W.C. Sun, Coupled phase-field and plasticity modeling of geological materials: From brittle fracture to ductile flow,  Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 330:1-32, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2017.10.009, 2018. [PDF][Bibtex]
2. J. Choo", W.C. Sun, Cracking and damage from crystallization in pores: Coupled chemo-poro-mechanics and phase-field modeling, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 335:347-379, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2018.01.044, 2018.​[PDF][Bibtex]
3. K. Wang, W.C. Sun,   A multiscale multi-permeability poroplasticity model linked by recursive homogenizations and deep learning​, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 334(1):337-380, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2018.01.036, ​2018. [PDF][Bibtex]
4. S. Na, W.C. Sun, Computational thermomechanics of crystalline rock. Part I: a combined multi-phase-field/crystal plasticity approach for single crystal simulations, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, doi:10.1016/j.cma.2017.12.022, 2018.
5. ​W.C. Sun, T-F. Wong, Prediction of hydraulic and electrical transport properties of sandstone with multiscale lattice Boltzmann/finite element simulation on microtomographic images, International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 106, 269-277, doi:10.​1016/​j.​ijrmms.​2018.​04.​020, 2018.