Heterogeneous Infrastructure Materials
Our research focuses primarily on nonmetallic, heterogeneous infrastructure materials, including:
- Concrete
- Marscrete
- Masonry
- Sandstone
- Shale
- Wood
- Composites
For many of these materials, the characteristic length scale of the dominant heterogeneities is not sufficiently small relative to the macroscopic dimensions. Consequently, the separation of scales underlying conventional continuum descriptions may not hold, motivating the development of discrete and multiscale computational approaches.