Of the seven faculty members honored, three belong to the Structures Group: Armando Duarte, Paolo Gardoni, and Arif Masud. “We are pleased to see the achievements of Armando, Paolo, and Arif recognized,” said Larry Fahnestock, Chair of the Structures Group, “and we appreciate their dedication to continuing the long tradition of excellence in structural engineering and mechanics at Illinois.”
ARMANDO DUARTE
Nathan Newmark Professor
Armando Duarte’s research interests include computational mechanics and methods such as Generalized Finite Element and Meshfree Methods, three-dimensional computational fracture mechanics, multi-scale modeling of sharp thermal gradients and polycrystalline materials and multi-physic simulations of hydraulic fracturing. He joined the CEE at Illinois faculty in 2004, having previously been on the faculty of the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Duarte teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in methods of structural analysis, structural mechanics, analysis and mechanics of plates and shells, and advanced finite element methods. Read more about Duarte here.
PAOLO GARDONI
Alfredo H. Ang Family Professor
Paolo Gardoni’s research interests include sustainable and resilient infrastructure; reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; modeling of natural hazards; performance assessment of deteriorating systems; ethical, social, and legal dimensions of risk; policies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; impacts of climate change; and engineering ethics. He is Director of the MAE Center and Associate Director of the Center of Excellence for Risk-based Community Resilience Planning. A member of the CEE at Illinois faculty since 2012, Gardoni is an Excellence Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Co-Director of the Societal Risk and Hazard Mitigation program. Read more about Gardoni here.
ARIF MASUD
John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor
Arif Masud has been a member of the CEE at Illinois faculty since 2006. In addition to his appointment in CEE, Masud also holds faculty appointments in The Grainger College of Engineering with the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, the department of Aerospace Engineering, and Computational Science and Engineering, and was recently appointed as Professor of Biomedical and Translational Sciences in the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His research interests span stabilized and multiscale finite element methods for fluid and solid mechanics, computational biofluid dynamics, advanced numerical methods and techniques for material modeling in additive manufacturing, and new approaches to physics-constrained machine learning. Read more about Masud here.
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