Alireza V. Amirkhizi
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Research Scientist Office: 4203 EBU-I Email: alireza [at] starlite.ucsd.edu Phone: (858) 534-5918 Fax: (858) 534-2727 Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, San Diego 4205 Engineering Building I 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0416 |
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, Engineering Sciences (Applied Mechanics) 2006
University of California, San Diego
Research Interests
Mechanics of materials
Experimental investigation of materials and structures under dynamic loads
Material characterization at broad ranges of strain rate, frequency, temperature, and pressure
Physics-based constitutive modeling
Electromagnetic and acoustic waves in periodic media
Current Projects
Microstructural Design for Stress Wave Energy Management
Polymer-by-Design for Blast-Induced Shock-Wave Management
Self-Assembled Soft Optical Negative Index Materials(MURI)
Structural Composites with Tuned Electromagnetic Chirality
Tunable Mechanical Metamaterials
Selected Publications
Ch. 12: Multifunctional Materials, Sia Nemat-Nasser, Syrus Nemat-Nasser, Thomas Plaisted, Anthony Starr, & Alireza Vakil Amirkhizi, BIOMIMETICS: Biologically Inspired Technologies, Edited by Yoseph Bar-Cohen, CRC Press (2005).
Finite-amplitude shear wave in pre-stressed thin elastomers, Sia Nemat-Nasser and Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Wave Motion (2005)
An Experimentally-based Viscoelastic Constitutive Model for Polyurea, Including Pressure and Temperature Effects, Amirkhizi, A.V., J. Isaacs, J. McGee and S. Nemat-Nasser, Phil. Mag., Vol. 86 (2006) 5847-5866
Compression-induced Axial Crack Propagation in DCDC Polymer Samples: Experiments and Modeling, Plaisted, T., A. V. Amirkhizi and S. Nemat-Nasser, Intl. Journal of Fracture 141, 447-457 (2006).
A framework for numerical integration of crystal elasto-plastic constitutive equations compatible with explicit finite element codes, Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Sia Nemat-Nasser, International Journal of Plasticity 23 (2007) 1918–1937
Composites with tuned effective magnetic permeability, Alireza V. Amirkhizi and Sia Nemat-Nasser, J. of App. Phys. 102, [014901] (2007).
Terahertz plasmonic composites, Syrus C. Nemat-Nasser, Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Willie J. Padilla, Dimitri N. Basov, Sia Nemat-Nasser, Derek Bruzewicz, and George Whitesides, PHYSICAL REVIEW E 75, [036614] (2007).
Terahertz plasmonic composites, Syrus C. Nemat-Nasser, Alireza V. Amirkhizi, Willie J. Padilla, Dimitri N. Basov, Sia Nemat-Nasser, Derek Bruzewicz, and George Whitesides, PHYSICAL REVIEW E 75, [036614] (2007).
Numerical calculation of electromagnetic properties including chirality parameters for uniaxial bianisotropic mediay, Alireza V. Amirkhizi and Sia Nemat-Nasser, SMART MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES 17, [015042] (2008).
