Personal Homepage of Professor Jeong-Ho Kim

  Mechanics of Advanced Materials & Systems Lab

Associate 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

 

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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:

2010– Present  Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Connecticut

2004– 2010      Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil & Env. Engineering, University of Connecticut

2008– 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)

Center for Clean Energy Engineering (C2E2)

 

Research Interests

·  Finite Element Methods 

·  Computational Mechanics

·  Modeling and Simulation of Functionally Graded Materials

·  Mechanical Modeling of Functionally Graded Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

·  Dynamic Simulation of Blast and Fire-Resistant Composites

·  Modeling of Multifunctional Composite Sensors

                                 

Teaching Workshop

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

 

Outreach Programs

Explore Engineering (2007- present)

Da Vinci Workshop (2007- present)

Connecticut Invention Convention (2008-present)

Open House (2004-present)

 

Professional Services

·   Associate Editor, Editorial Board of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design—Elsevier

·   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)

·   Member of American Ceramic Society (ACS)

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

·   NSF Proposal Review Panel (2004,2005,2007,2009(CAREER))

·   Organizer of Structures and Applied mechanics Seminar Series within the CEE Dept (2006-2009).

·  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

·   Mini-symposium Organizer of Recent Advances in Modeling Functionally Graded Materials at the 10^th US

    National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Columbus, Ohio, USA, July 16-19, 2009.

 

Honors and Awards

·   ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, 2010

·   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

 

Recent Journal Publications

· L. Zhang and J.-H. Kim, “Higher-order terms for the mode-III stationary crack-tip fields in a functionally graded material,” ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 78(1):011005 (10 pages), 2011.

 

· G. Anandakumar and J.-H. Kim, “On the Modal Behavior of a Three-Dimensional  Functionally Graded Cantilever Beam: Poisson’s ratio and Material Sampling Effects,” Composite Structures, 92:1358-1371, 2010.

 

· G. Anandakumar, N. Li, A. Verma, P. Singh, and J.-H. Kim, “Thermal Stress and Probability of Failure Analyses of Functionally Graded Solid Oxide Fuel Cells,” Journal of Power Sources, 195(19):6659-6670, 2010.

 

· G. Anandakumar and J-H. Kim, “A Thermomechanical Fracture Modeling and Simulation for Functionally Graded Solids using a Residual-Strain Formulation,” International Journal of Fracture, 164:31-55, 2010.

 

· G. Anandakumar and J.-H. Kim, “Dynamic, Modal and Wave Propagation Analyses of 3D Functionally Graded Continua,” Materials Science Forum, 631-632:17-22, 2010.

 

· 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,” Engineering Structures, 31: 3107-3115, 2009

 

· L. Zhang and J.-H. Kim, “A complex variable approach for asymptotic mode-III crack-tip fields in an anisotropic functionally graded material,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 76: 2512-2525, 2009.

 

· 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,” ASME, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 75:051112, pages 8, 2008.

 

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