Personal Homepage of Professor Jeong-Ho Kim

  Assistant Professor Jeong-Ho Kim

Office: Castleman (CAST) #320

 

University of Connecticut

Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering

261 Glenbrook Rd. Unit 2037

Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2037

Phone: (860) 486-2746

Fax: (860) 486-2298

E-mail: jhkim@engr.uconn.edu

 

Job Opening:

PhD Students for

Finite Element Modeling

 

Education:     

Ph.D.   2000-2003    Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  

M.S.     1998-2000    Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B. S.    1989-1996    Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

                              

Employment:

Jan. 2004-present   Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Envir. Engineering, University of Connecticut

Nov. 2007-present  Joint Appointment,    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering,   University of Connecticut

1999-2003               Graduate Research Assistant, University of Illinois  at Urbana-Champaign

 

Affiliation:    

Department of Mechanical Engineering  

Institute of Materials Science (IMS)

Booth Engineering Center for Advanced Technologies (BECAT)

Connecticut Global Fuel Cell Center (CGFCC)

 

Research Interests

·  Integrated Computational-Experimental Fracture Mechanics

·  Functionally Graded Fuel Cells: Mechanical Durability

·  Functionally Graded Materials

·  Advanced High-Temperature Ceramics

·  Finite Element Methods   

                                 

Teaching Workshop

Participated in an NSF-sponsored Undergraduate Teaching Workshop “How to Engineer Engineering Education” at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, July 18-23, 2004

 

Outreach Programs

Engineering 2000 (2007- present)

Da Vinci Workshop (2007- present)

Connecticut Invention Convention (2008-present)

 

Professional Services

·   Member of International Advisory Committee on Functionally Graded Materials 

·   Member of International Scientific Committee on Functionally Graded Materials 

·   Member of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

·   Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

·   Past Member of American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR)

·   NSF Proposal Review Panel (2004,2005,2007)

·   Review of Refereed Journal Papers

·   Organizer of Structures and Applied mechanics Seminar Series within the CEE Dept.

·   Session Chair in Modeling and Simulation at the 8^th International Symposium on Multifunctional

    and Functionally Graded Materials, Leuven, Belgium, July 11-14, 2004

·  Mini-symposium Organizer of Functionally Graded Materials at 11^th International  

   Conference on Fracture, Turin, Italy, March 20-25, 2005

·   Mini-symposium Organizer of Modeling and Simulation (29 presentations) in the 9^th Multiscale &

   Functionally Graded Materials Conference, Hawaii, October 15-18, 2006

·   Mini-symposium Organizer of Recent Advances in Modeling Functionally Graded Materials in the

    9^th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, July 23-26, 2007

·   Judge of USACM Student Presentation Competition in the 9^th USNCCM, San Francisco,

   July 2007

 

Honors and Awards

·   National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2006

·   Inaugural USACM & ASME PTC 60 Student Benchmark Competition Award,

    the Seventh U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 2003.    

·   Young Researcher Fellowship Award in the Second M.I.T. Conference, June 2003

·   Ambassadorial Scholar Award, The Rotary International, 1998-1999

 

Refereed  Journal Publications

 

      C. Liu, J. T. DeWolf  and J.-H. Kim, “Development of a Baseline for Structural Health Monitoring and 

      Seismic Evaluation for a Curved Post-tensioned Concrete Box-Girder Bridge,” (submitted).

 

      C. Liu, J. T. DeWolf and J.-H. Kim*, “Development of a New Cracked Mindlin Plate Element with a

      Through Crack,” (submitted)

 

J.-H. Kim and Amit KC, “A Generalized Interaction Integral Method for the Evaluation of the T-stress in Orthotropic Functionally Graded Materials under Thermal Loading,” Journal of Applied Mechanics (in press).

 

Amit KC and J.-H. Kim, “Interaction Integrals for Thermal Fracture of Functionally Graded Materials,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics,75(8):2542-2565, 2008 PDF (364K).

 

      J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “On Fracture Criteria for Mixed-mode Crack Propagation in Functionally 

      Graded Materials,” Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, 14:227-244, 2007 PDF (2.3M)

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G. H. Paulino and J.-H. Kim, “The Weak Patch Test for Nonhomogeneous Materials Modeled with Graded Finite Elements,” Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 29: 63-81, 2007. PDF (955K)

 

 J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “On Accurate Numerical Evaluation of Stress Intensity

 Factors and T-stress in Functionally Graded Materials,” Materials Science Forum, Vol 492-493: 403-408,  2005.

 

 J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Mixed-mode Crack Propagation in Functionally Graded

 Materials,” Materials Science Forum, Vol 492-493:409-414, 2005.

 

 J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Consistent formulations of the interaction integral method

 for fracture of functionally graded materials,” Journal of Applied Mechanics, 72(3):351- 364, 2005.PDF (1022K)

 

 G. H. Paulino and J.-H. Kim, “On the Poisson’s Ratio Effect in Mixed-mode Stress  

 Intensity Factors and T-stress in Functionally Graded Materials,” International Journal 

 of Computational Engineering Science, 5(4):833-861, 2004.PDF (214K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Simulation of  Crack  Propagation  in Functionally Graded Materials under Mixed-mode and Non-proportional Loading,” International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, 1(1):63-94, 2004. PDF (681K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “T-stress in Orthotropic Functionally Graded Materials: Lekhnitskii and Stroh Formalisms,” International Journal of Fracture, 126 (4):345-384, 2004. PDF (1723K)

 

G. H. Paulino and J.-H. Kim, “A New Approach to Compute T-stress in Functionally Graded Materials Using the Interaction  Integral Method,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 71 (13-14):1907-1950, 2004. PDF (972K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “The Interaction Integral for Fracture of Orthotropic Functionally Graded Materials: Evaluation of Stress Intensity Factors,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, 40 (15):3967-4001, 2003. PDF (1207K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “An Accurate Scheme for Mixed-mode Fracture Analysis of  Functionally Graded Materials Using the Interaction Integral and Micromechanics Models,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in  Engineering, 58 (10): 1457-1497, 2003. PDF (575K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “T-stress, Mixed-mode Stress Intensity Factors, and Crack Initiation Angles in Functionally Graded Materials: A Unified Approach Using the Interaction Integral Method,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 192 (11-12): 1463-1494, 2003. PDF (544K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Mixed-mode J-integral Formulation and Implementation Using Graded Finite Elements for Fracture Analysis of Nonhomogeneous Orthotropic Materials,” Mechanics of Materials, 35 (1-2): 107-128, 2003. PDF (596K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Mixed Mode Fracture of Orthotropic Functionally Graded Materials Using Finite Elements and the Modified Crack Closure Method,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 69 (14-16): 1557-1586, 2002. PDF (723K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Isoparametric Graded Finite Elements for Nonhomogeneous  Isotropic and Orthotropic Materials,” ASME Journal of Applied Mechaincs, 69 (4): 502-514, 2002. PDF (1266K)

 

J.-H. Kim and G. H. Paulino, “Finite Element Evaluation of Mixed Mode Stress Intensity Factors in Functionally Graded Materials,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 53 (8): 1903-1935, 2002. PDF (540K)