Postgraduate research students

Biography

Masoud started his PhD in Jan 2021 at the University of Glasgow. His preferred research topics mostly involve FE modelling of different materials such as Nanocomposites and Biomaterials. Currently, he is working on computational mechanics of soft materials with multi-physics coupling as his PhD thesis. He is a member of GCEC (Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre) and MSS (Mechanics of Soft Solids).

PhD project abstract

The main goal of the PhD project is to study the piezoresistivity of elastomers reinforced by CNTs under large deformation by using the theory of nonlinear elasticity and mathematical formulation. For this purpose, the equivalent inclusion method (EIM) is used to determine the electrical conductivity of elastomer composites with different volume fractions. Also, the effect of electron hopping is added to the EIM formulation to increase the accuracy of the model for composites with large volume fractions of CNT. Analytical models cannot capture the effect of interactions between CNT particles accurately. Hence, with the assistance of mathematical models of nonlinear elasticity, we employ a numerical method, namely the finite element method (FEM) to develop a deeper understanding of large deformation characteristics of elastomer composites.

Research interests

• Finite Element Method
• Continuum Mechanics
• Composite materials
• Phase-Field Model
• Biomaterials
• Optimization algorithms
• Machine Learning
• Fluid-Structural Interaction
• Li-Ion Batteries

List by: Type | Date

• Dr Prashant Saxena
• Professor Shanmugam Kumar
• Professor Andrew McBride

Teaching Assistants and Demonstrater for:

• Finite Element Method
• Dynamics