Catalin Picu

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

United States

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Professor Catalin Picu is a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the United States. His research focuses on the mechanical behavior of network materials, including stochastic fiber networks and the effects of stiffness on phase separation kinetics. He has published extensively on topics such as fracture toughness in β-HMX crystals and the dynamics of pore collapse in energetic materials.

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Length scale and grid resolution effects in the simulation of shear and energy localization during pore collapse in shocked energetic crystals

Quantitative analysis of shear band formation around collapsing pores in shocked energetic organic crystals

Failure mechanism in stochastic network materials: The competition between fiber and crosslink failure

Strength and stiffness of network materials with preferentially oriented fibers

Effect of Stiffness on Phase Separation Kinetics during Photo-PIPS of Acrylate Networks

Anisotropy of the fracture toughness in β-HMX crystals: A computational study

An integrated experimental-computational investigation of the mechanical behavior of random nanofiber networks

Nonlinear behavior of stochastic athermal fiber networks with elastic–plastic fibers

Continuum models for meso-scale simulations of HMX (1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocane) guided by molecular dynamics: Pore collapse, shear bands, and hotspot temperature

Johnson–Cook yield functions for cyclotetramethylene-tetranitramine (HMX) and cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX) derived from single crystal plasticity models

Rapid Photothermal Healing of Vitrimer Nanocomposites Activated by Gold-Nanoparticle-Coated Graphene Nanoplatelets

Evaluation of the parallel coupling constitutive model for biomaterials using a fully coupled network-matrix model

Increasing Ductility and Toughness of Photocurable Thermosets with Microstructures Controlled by Phase Separation

Methodological Aspects and Mesh Convergence in Numerical Analysis of Athermal Fiber Network Material Deformation

Photopolymerization-induced phase separation kinetics explored by intermittent irradiation

Pore collapse, shear bands, and hotspots using atomistics-consistent continuum models for RDX (1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazinane): Comparison with molecular dynamics calculations

Effect of thermomechanical processing on mechanical properties and the microstructure of binary Al-Ce alloy

Interplay of photopolymerization and phase separation kinetics and the resulting structure-property relationship of photocurable resins

Effects of crystallographic orientation and strain‐hardening on nanoindentation response of cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine (‐HMX) single crystals

Toughness of network materials: Structural parameters controlling damage accumulation

Domain partitioning material point method for simulating shock in polycrystalline energetic materials

Effect of connectivity on the elasticity of athermal network materials

Stiffening mechanisms in stochastic athermal fiber networks

γ-Surfaces for molecular crystal cyclotetramethylene-tetranitramine (β-HMX)

Homogeneous Dislocation Nucleation in Molecular Crystal Cyclotetramethylene‐Tetranitramine (β‐HMX)

Stress relaxation in network materials: the contribution of the network

Strain hardening in molecular crystal cyclotetramethylene-tetranitramine (β-HMX): a theoretical evaluation

Nanoindentation in cyclotetramethylene tetranitramine (β-HMX) single crystals: the effect of pressure-sensitivity

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Tommy Sewell

Jun Cui

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Jacob Merson

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