Assistant Professor, Area Head of Mechanical Engineering; School of Engineering
University of Guelph
50 Stone Rd E, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1
Areas of Expertise
Damage and failure of automotive alloys: developing experimental techniques to characterize material failure for alloys of aluminum, magnesium and steel sheets, advanced material models for deformation and failure: constitutive models that describe anisotropy of plastic deformation and failure, modeling microstructure evolution in solidifying metals, and cellular automata models for microstructure evolution. Novel experiments for damage and deformation of engineering alloys, Novel finite element methods for discontinuous fields, Structural integrity – for Nuclear, Pipeline and transportation of dangerous goods, Finite elements for fracture, Inverse methods for mechanics
csimha@uoguelph.ca