Senthil Vel – Arthur O. Willey Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Ferland Engineering Education and Design Center, Room 257
(207) 581-2777
senthil.vel@maine.edu

Senthil S. Vel, Ph.D.

Arthur O. Willey Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Tech, 1998

Curriculum Vitae

Laminated Composite Structures Textbook

Research and Educational Software

Profiles:

External Engagements:

  • National Science Foundation Proposal Review Panelist.
  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016.
  • Co-organizer of the 15th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies, Maine, 2004.

Teaching Areas: (More Information)

Mechanics of Composite Materials; Advanced Strength of Materials; Intro to the Finite Element Method; Theory of Elasticity; Mechanics of Laminated Composite Structures.

Research Areas: (More Information)

  • Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • Computational Solid Mechanics
  • Micromechanical Modeling of Heterogeneous Materials
  • Multiscale Modeling
  • Thermoelastic properties, seismic anisotropy and creep of rocks, ice and polycrystalline materials

Principal Sponsors

  • NSF, ONR

Select Research / Collaboration Activities

  • Design of functionally graded materials using genetic algorithms, NSF
  • Structural response of hybrid ship connections subjected to fatigue loads, ONR
  • Multiscale analysis of geological structures that influence crustal seismic anisotropy, NSF
  • Integrated analytical-computational analysis of microstructural influences on seismic anisotropy, NSF
  • Origin and vertical extent of damage zones around continental strike-slip faults, NSF

Select Publications / Presentations (*Student)

  • Vel, S.S., Cook*, A.C, Johnson, S.E., Gerbi, C., Computational homogenization and micromechanical analysis of textured polycrystalline materials, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 310:749-779, 2016.
  • Cook*, A.C., Vel, S.S., Gerbi, C., Johnson, S.E., Computational analysis of nonlinear creep of polyphase aggregates: Influence of phase morphology, Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 119: 6877–6906, 2014.
  • Vel, S.S., Goupee*, A.J., Multiscale thermoelastic analysis of random heterogeneous materials. Part I: Microstructure characterization and homogenization of material properties, Computational Materials Science, 48: 22-38, 2010.
  • Pelletier*, J.L., Vel, S.S., Multi-objective optimization of fiber reinforced composite laminates for strength, stiffness and minimal mass, Computers & Structures, 84: 2065-2080, 2006.
  • Vel S.S., Batra R.C., Three-dimensional exact solution for the vibration of functionally graded rectangular plates, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 272: 703-730, 2004.

Professional Activities / Memberships

  • ASME Fellow