Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995
• M.S., Engineering Mechanics, Ohio State University, 1987
• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, G.P.A., West Virginia University, 1985

Experience Record

• 2002-Present, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Chair in Computational Solid Mechanics and Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS  
• 2002, Manager of Fluid/Thermal Modeling Dept., Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• 2001-2002, Manager of Chemistry and Materials Process Modeling Dept., Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• 1999-2001, Principle Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• 1989-1999, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• 1987-1989, Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA
• 1986, Engineer, Owens Corning Fiberglas, Granville, OH

Specialty Areas

        Solid mechanics, microstructure-property constitutive modeling, finite deformation inelasticity, damage evolution, fracture, composites, electromigration-stress voiding, fatigue, penetration, and impact; numerical modeling of nano- and microstructural mechanics; atomistic simulations; finite element analyses of manufacturing methods such as forming, forging, and other metal processing methods.

Research Summary

Professor Horstemeyer's passion is to perform scientific research with an engineering application in mind in the area of mechanics of materials.  His microstructure-property modeling efforts can be used to optimally design not only automotive components and systems but weapons, computers, aircraft, and other applications as well.  Furthermore, now that the mathematics relating microstructure to properties have been coupled, solving the inverse problem to achieve new materials designs is tractable.  This potentially has a large impact in the design community.  His experience at Sandia National Laboratories in working at various size scales provides a perspective in the research and design community that is different, beneficial, and challenging.  In summary, at the structural scale, he has been involved in designing weapons/automotive components; at the macroscale scale he has developed internal state variable formulations related to plasticity and damage while coupling theoretical modeling to experiments; at the mesoscale he has worked on crystal plasticity formulations and worked microstructure-property relations from experiments and modeling paradigms; and at the atomic level he has analyzed size scale effects with atomistic modeling.  At Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA), he worked on a myriad of projects mostly focusing on weapons programs but has recently transferred the research and technologies developed at Sandia to the automotive industry.  Currently at MSU, he has collaborations with researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Surface Warfare Center, USCAR, GM, Ford, Alcoa, and Nissan.

Holding a Chair position in Solid Mechanics in the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems, Professor Horstemeyer is overseeing the multiscale research related to cradle-to-grave modeling of automotive and truck components and systems.  He desires to train young researchers with the paradigm of the multiscale philosophy with strong bent on theory development, experimental validation, and materials analysis in order to change the next generation of component and system designers.

He has published over 100 journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports and is continually invited to give lectures for universities, government laboratories, and U.S. industry.  He has received several technical awards at Sandia and a R&D100 award for his work on microstructure-property modeling.

Selected Recent Publications

Invited Books/Magazines

Horstemeyer, M. F., "Mapping Failure by Microstructure-Property Modeling," Journal of Metals, ed. J. J. Hoyt, 2001.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Baskes, M. I., and Plimpton, S. J., "Computational Nanoscale Plasticity Simulations Using Embedded Atom Potentials," Prospects in Mesomechanics, ed. George Sih, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 37, No. 1-3, pp. 49-98, 2001.

Bammann, D. J., Chiesa, M. L., Horstemeyer, M. F., Weingarten, L. I., "Failure in Ductile Materials Using Finite Element Methods," Structural Crashworthiness and Failure, eds T. Wierzbicki and N. Jones, Elsevier Applied Science, The Universities Press (Belfast) Ltd, 1993.

Published Journal Articles

Horstemeyer, M. F., Yang, N., Gall, K. A., McDowell, D. L., Fan, J., and Gullett, P., "High Cycle Fatigue Mechanisms in a Cast AM60B Magnesium Alloy," Fatigue Fract Engng Mater Struc, Vol. 25, pp. 1-12, 2002.

Gerberich, W. W., Tymak, N. I., Grunlan, J. C., Horstemeyer, M. F., and Baskes, M. I., "Interpretations of Indentation Size Effects," J. Applied Mechanics, Vol. 69, No. 4, pp. 443-442, 2002.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Lim, T. J., Lu, W. Y., Mosher, D. A., Baskes, M. I., Prantil, V. C., and Plimpton, S. J., "Torsion/simple shear of single crystal copper," Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol. 124, pp. 322-328, 2002.

Dighe, M. D., Gokhale, A. M., and Horstemeyer, M. F., "Second Phase Cracking and Debonding Observations in the Fatigue Damage Evolution of a Cast Al-Si-Mg Alloy," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 33a, pp. 555-565, 2002.

H. Agarwal, A. M. Gokhale, S. Graham, and M. F. Horstemeyer, "Quantitative Characterization of Three-Dimensional Damage Evolution in a Wrought Al-Alloy Under Tension and Compression," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 33a, pp. 1-8, 2002.

H. Agarwal, A. M. Gokhale, S. Graham, M. F. Horstemeyer, and D. J. Bamann, "Rotations of Brittle Particles During Plastic Deformation of Ductile Alloys," Materials Science and Engineering-A, Vol. 328, pp. 310-316, 2002.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Baskes, M. I., Hughes, D. A., and Godfrey, A., "Orientation Effects on the Stress State of Molecular Dynamics Large Deformation Simulations," Int. J. Plasticity, Vol. 18, pp. 203-209, 2002.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Plimpton, S. J., and Baskes, M. I., "Size Scale and Strain Rate Effects on Yield and Plasticity of Metals," Acta Mater., Vol. 49, pp. 4363-4374, 2001.

Fan, J., McDowell, D. L., Horstemeyer, M. F., and Gall, K. A., "Micromechanics Analysis and Model Development for Fatigue Behavior of a Microstructurally Small Crack Growing in Dual-Phase Materials," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 68, No. 15, pp. 1687-1706, 2001.

Gall, K. A., Horstemeyer, M. F., Degner, B. W., McDowell, D. L., and Fan, J., "On the Driving Force for Fatigue Crack Formation from Inclusions and Voids," International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 198, No. 3, pp. 207-233, 2001.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Lathrop, J., Gokhale, A. M., and Dighe, M., "Modeling Stress State Dependent Damage Evolution in a Cast Al-Si-Mg Aluminum Alloy," Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 33, pp. 31-47, 2000.

Gall, K. A., Horstemeyer, M. F., Van Schilfgaarde, M., and Baskes, M. I., "Atomistic Simulations on the Tensile Debonding of an Aluminum-Silicon Interface," J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Vol. 48, pp. 2183-2212, 2000.

Amy M. Waters, Harry E. Martz, Kenneth W. Dolan, Mark F. Horstemeyer, and Robert E. Green, Jr., "Three-Dimensional Statistical Void Analysis of AM60B Magnesium using CT Imagery," Journal for American Society for Nondestructive Testing:  Materials Evaluation, Vol. 58, No. 10, p. 1221, 2000.

Gall, K. and Horstemeyer, M. F., "Integration of Basic Materials Research into the Design of Cast Components by a Multi-Scale Methodology," JEMT, Vol. 122, pp. 355-362, 2000.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Matalanis, M. M., Sieber, A. M., and Botos, M. L., "Micromechanical Finite Element Calculations of Temperature and Void Configuration Effects on Void Growth and Coalescence," Int. J. Plasticity, Vol. 16, 2000.

Gall, K. A., Horstemeyer, M. F., McDowell, D. L., and Fan, J., "Finite element analysis of the stress distributions near damaged Si particle clusters in cast Al-Si alloys," MECH MATER 32: (5) 277-301, 2000.

Horstemeyer, M. F., "A Numerical Parametric Investigation of Localization and Forming Limits," Int. J. Damage Mech., Vol. 9, pp. 255-285, 2000.

Gall, K., Yang, N., Horstemeyer, M. F., McDowell, D. L., and Fan, J., "The Debonding and Fracture of Si Particles During the Fatigue of a Cast Al-Si Alloy," Met. Trans. A, Vol. 30A, pp. 3079-3088, 1999.

Dighe, M. D., Gokhale, A. M., Horstemeyer, M. F., and Mosher, D. A., "Effect of Strain Rate Effect on Damage Evolution in a Cast Al-Si-Mg Base Alloy," Met. Trans. A, Vol. 31A, pp. 1725-1731.

Gall, K., Yang, N., Horstemeyer, M. F., McDowell, D. L., and Fan, J., "The Influence of Modified Intermettallics and Si Particles on Fatigue Crack Paths in a Commercial Cast A356 Al Alloy," Fatigue Frac. Eng. Mat. Struct., 23, pp. 159-172, 2000.

Horstemeyer, M. F., McDowell, D. L., and McGinty, R., "Design of Experiments for Constitutive Model Selection:  Application to Polycrystal Elastoviscoplasticity," Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 7, pp. 253-273, 1999.

Horstemeyer, M. F. and Baskes, M. I., "Atomistic Finite Deformation Simulations:  A Discussion on Length Scale Effects in Relation to Mechanical Stresses," J. Eng. Matls. Techn. Trans. ASME, Vol. 121, pp. 114-119, 1998.

Horstemeyer, M. F., "Damage Influence on the Bauschinger Effect of a Cast A356 Aluminum Alloy," Scripta Materialia, Vol. 39, No. 11, pp. 1491-1495, 1998.

Horstemeyer, M. F. and Ramaswamy, S., "On Factors Affecting Localization and Void Growth in Ductile Metals: A Parametric Study," Int. J. Damage Mech., Vol. 9, pp. 6-28, 2000.

Lu, W. Y., Horstemeyer, M. F., Korellis, J., Grishibar, R., and Mosher, D., "High Temperature Effects in 304L Stainless Steel Notch Tests," Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 30, pp. 139-152, 1998.

Horstemeyer, M. F. and Gokhale, A. M., "A Void Nucleation Model for Ductile Materials," International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 36, pp. 5029-5055, 1999.

Dighe, M. D., Gokhale, A. M., and Horstemeyer, M. F., "Effect of Temperature on Silicon Particle Damage in Cast Microstructure of A356 Alloy," Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 1997, Vol. 29a, pp. 905-908, 1998.

Horstemeyer, M. F., McDowell, D. L., "Modeling Effects of Dislocation Substructure in Polycrystal Elastoviscoplasticity," Mech. Matls, Vol. 27, pp. 145-163, 1998.

Horstemeyer, M. F., Revelli, V., "Stress History Dependent Localization and Failure Using Continuum Damage Mechanics to Fatigue and Fracture, ed. D. L. McDowell, STP1315, 1996.