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Sharif Rahman Professor Contact Information: Telephone: (319) 335-5679 |
Personal Web Page:
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~rahman/
Research Links:
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~rahman/grants.html
Joined the College of Engineering: 1995
Education:
Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Cornell University, 1991
M.S., Structural Mechanics, Purdue University, 1986
B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, 1984
Special Fields of Knowledge:
Computational mechanics; advance materials; and stochastic computing
Present Research Interests:
Multiscale mechanics of heterogeneous materials; high-dimensional model representation; stochastic meshfree and finite element methods, stochastic optimization; probabilistic fracture mechanics; and mechanics of nano-structured materials
Selected Publications:
Rahman, S., “A Solution of the Random Eigenvalue Problem by a Dimensional Decomposition Method,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 67, 2006, pp. 1318-1340
Rao, B. N. and Rahman, S., “A Mode Decoupling Continuum Shape Sensitivity Method for Fracture Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 195, 2006, pp. 5962-5982
Rahman, S., “A Dimensional Decomposition Method for Stochastic Fracture Mechanics,” Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 73, 2006, pp. 2093-2109
Rao, B. N. and Rahman, S., “A Continuum Shape Sensitivity Method for Fracture Analysis of Isotropic Functionally Graded Materials,” Computational Mechanics, Vol. 38, 2006, pp. 133-150
Rahman, S. and Wei, D., “A Univariate Approximation at Most Probable Point for Higher-Order Reliability Analysis,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 43, 2006, pp. 2820-2839
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Society of Civil Engineers; International Association of Structural Safety and Reliability; U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics; International Society for Computational Engineering & Sciences; American Society for Engineering Education.
