EMI 2021 Student Competition Winners

Congratulations to all the 2021 student competition winners, and many thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of this year's competitions, including the chairs, and the jury members!

Computational Mechanics Committee Student Paper Competition

Winner:
Nathan Shauer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Paper: "Simulation of Wave Propagation in Fluid-filled Fractures within a GFEM Framework"

Runner Up:
Longzhen Wang
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paper: "Connections Between Peridynamics and Graph Laplacian for Diffusion Problems"

Runner Up:
Fei Fan
The University of Hong Kong
Paper: "Phase-field Modeling of Shear Fracture in Geomaterials"

Dynamics Committee Student Paper Competition

First Place:
Aikaterini Kyprioti
University of Notre Dame
Paper: "Kriging Surrogate Modeling for Approximating EDP Distributions under Stochastic Ground Motion Excitations"

Second Place:
Pu Ren
Northeastern University
Paper: "PhyCRNet: Physics-informed Convolutional-Recurrent Network for Solving Spatiotemporal PDEs"

Second Place:
Fernando Gomez
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Paper: "Topology optimization of tall buildings subjected to stochastic wind excitation"

Third Place:
Ehsan Osloub
University at Buffalo
Paper: "Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis of Electrical Conductors Interconnecting High-Voltage Substation Equipment"

Elasticity Committee Student Paper Competition

Winner:
Sansit Patnaik
Purdue University
Paper: "Fractional Order Kinematic Approach to Nonlocal Elasticity"

Modeling Inelasticity & Multiscale Behavior Committee Student Paper Competition

First Place:
Jinlei Shen
Johns Hopkins University
Paper: "Microstructure-informed Fatigue Crack Nucleation Prediction for Dual Phase Ti-64 Alloys using Experimentally validated Parametrically Homogenized Constitutive Models"

Second Place:
Preetam Tarafder
Johns Hopkins University
Paper: "A Finite Deformation Cohesive Zone Enhanced Phase Field Model for Crack Propagation in Multi-phase Microstructures"

Third Place:
Damin Xia
Vanderbilt University
Paper: "Reduced-Order Computational Homogenization for Multiscale Problems with Large Deformation"

Objective Resilience Committee Student Paper Competition

First Place:
Mohammad Aghababaei
Texas A & M University
Paper: "An Agent-Based Modeling Approach for Community Resilience Assessment Accounting for System Interdependencies: Application on Education System"

Second Place:
Ahmed Akl
McMaster University
Paper: "Seismic Robustness of Low-Rise Concrete Infrastructure Systems"

Third Place:
Zachary Bunn
US Military Academy
Paper: "Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Members Subject to Blast Loading"

Third Place:
Julia Wyatt
US Military Academy
Paper: "Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Members Subject to Blast Loading"

Third Place:
Joshua Burns
US Military Academy
Paper: "Performance-Based Design of Reinforced Concrete Members Subject to Blast Loading"

Poromechanics Committee Student Poster Competition

Winner:
Yidong Zhao
The University Hong Kong
Paper: "Stabilized Material Point Methods for Large Deformation in Fluid-infiltrated Porous Materials"

Runner Up:
Omar Rodriguez Villarreal
University of Pau and the Pays de l'Adour/Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon
Paper: "Estimation of Fracture Energy from Hydraulic Fracture Tests on Mortar and Rocks at Geothermal Reservoir Temperatures"

Runner Up:
Mehdi Eskandari-Ghadi
University of Colorado Boulder
Paper: "Effect of pore size distribution on sorption-induced deformation of porous material"

Probabilistic Methods Committee Student Paper Competition

Winner:
Min Li
Colorado State University
Paper: "Generative Adversarial Network Guided Topology Optimization of Periodic Structures via Subset Simulation"

Winner:
Bowei Li
University of Michigan
Paper: "A Deep Learning Metamodeling Framework for High-dimensional Nonlinear and Dynamic Structural Systems Subject to Stochastic Excitation"

Winner:
Dimitrios Patsialis
University of Notre Dame
Paper: "Multi-fidelity Monte Carlo simulation for efficient seismic risk assessment"

Stability Committee Student Paper Competition

First Place:
Adam Bekele
Imperial College London
Paper: "Enhancing Energy Absorption through metamaterial instabilities"

Second Place:
Luke Lapira
Imperial College London
Paper: "Nonlinear modelling of hyperbolic paraboloid plates under pure shear"

Structural Health Monitoring & Control Committee Student Paper Competition

First Place:
Mohamadreza Sheibani
University of Utah
Paper: "Prediction of Hurricane-Related Power Outage with a Population-Based Structural Health Monitoring Approach"

Second Place:
Kyle Leland Hom
Columbia University
Paper: "Damage Identification Using x-Vectors for Structural Health Monitoring"

Third Place:
Jingxiao Liu
Stanford University
Paper: "Hierarchical model transfer between bridges for multi-task damage diagnosis using drive-by vehicles"