PhD and postdoctoral positions available


Education


  1. Bullet Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, January 2003.

  2. Bullet Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (B.S., M.S. minor in Structural Engineering), UPC, Barcelona (Spain), 1998.


Professional Experience

  1. Bullet 09/07 - present, Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  2. Bullet 09/04 - 09/07, Assistant Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  3. Bullet 03/03 - 08/04, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computational Solid Mechanics Group (Prof. Michael Ortiz), Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories, California Institute of Technology.

  4. Bullet 09/99 - 02/03, Research Assistant, Northwestern University, with Prof. Ted Belytschko.


Fellowships and Awards

  1. Bullet European Research Council Starting Grant (2009-2013). [poster]

  2. Bullet Icrea Academia Award (2009-2013).

  3. Bullet Timoshenko visiting scholar, Mech. Eng. Dept, Stanford University (2008).

  4. Bullet Marie Curie International Reintegration Grant.

  5. Bullet Programa Ramón y Cajal research position (2003 call), declined.

  6. Bullet ASME/Boeing 2003 Structures and Materials Award, for the best paper presented at the 2002 SDM conference (co-authored with Ted Belytschko).

  7. Bullet "la Caixa" Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Spain (1999-2001).


Research interests

  1. Bullet Multiscale modeling and simulation of nanoscale mechanics

  2. Bullet Mechanics of carbon nanotubes  [presentation 1]  [presentation 2]

  3. Bullet Mechanics of fluid membranes

  4. Bullet Computational and applied mechanics

  5. Bullet Meshfree methods    [presentation]

  6. Bullet Continuum mechanics



Computer code

    Matlab script and functions for local maximum-entropy approximation schemes.

Theses

  1. Bullet Ph.D. dissertation "Finite crystal elasticity for curved single layer lattices: applications to carbon nanotubes", advised by Ted Belytschko.

  2. Bullet M.S. thesis (tesina) "Error estimation and adaptivity in strain localization problems with softening materials", advised by Pedro Díez and Antonio Huerta.


Publications in journals

  1. Bullet A. Rosolen, D. Millán, M. Arroyo, On the optimum support size in meshfree methods: a variational adaptivity approach with maximum entropy approximants, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Accepted. [preprint]

  2. Bullet Q. Lu, M. Arroyo, R. Huang, Elastic bending modulus of monolayer graphene, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 42:102002 (2009). [preprint]

  3. Bullet M. Arroyo and A. DeSimone, Relaxation dynamics of fluid membranes, Physical Review E, 79: 031915 (2009). [preprint]  [paper from the publisher]

  4. Bullet C. Cyron, M. Arroyo and M. Ortiz, Smooth, second order, non-negative meshfree approximants selected by maximum entropy, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 79:1605-1632 (2009). [preprint]

  5. Bullet J. Zou, X. Huang, M. Arroyo, and S. Zhang, Effective coarse-grained simulations of super-thick multi-walled carbon nanotubes under torsion, Journal of Applied Physics, 105:033516 (2009). [preprint]

  6. Bullet I. Arias  and M. Arroyo, Size-dependent nonlinear elastic scaling of multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Physical Review Letters, 100:085503 (2008). [preprint]

        Cover article: http://prl.aps.org/covers/100/8

        Also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

  1. Bullet M. Arroyo and I. Arias, Rippling and a phase-transforming mesoscopic model for multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56:1224-1244  (2008). [preprint from publisher] [preprint]

  2. Bullet H. Ostadi, M. Arroyo, P.D. Prewett, K.C. Jiang and S.E. Huq, Optimization of a novel micro-opto-X-ray imaging lens, Microelectronic Engineering, 85, 1086-1088 (2008).

  3. Bullet E. Kanso, M. Arroyo, Y. Tong, A. Yavari, J.E. Marsden and M. Desbrun, On the geometric character of stress in continuum mechanics, Z. Angew. Math. Phys. (ZAMP), 58:843-856 (2007). [preprint]

  4. Bullet Marino Arroyo and Michael Ortiz, Local maximum-entropy approximation schemes: a seamless bridge between finite elements and meshfree methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 65:2167-2202 (2006). [preprint]

  5. Bullet Marino Arroyo and Ted Belytschko, Continuum mechanics modeling and simulation of carbon nanotubes, Meccanica, 40:455-469 (2005). Special Issue Mechanics from Nano to Macroscopic Level. [preprint]

  6. Bullet Marino Arroyo and Ted Belytschko, Finite crystal elasticity of carbon nanotubes based on the exponential Cauchy-Born rule, Physical Review B, 69:115415 (2004). [preprint]

        Also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

  1. Bullet Marino Arroyo and Ted Belytschko, Finite element analysis of the nonlinear mechanics of carbon nanotubes, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59:419-456 (2004). [preprint]

  2. Bullet Marino Arroyo and Ted Belytschko, Nonlinear mechanical response and rippling of thick multi-walled carbon nanotubes, Physical Review Letters, 91:215505 (2003). [preprint] 

        Also featured in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.

  1. Bullet Marino Arroyo y Ted Belytschko, A finite deformation membrane based on inter-atomic potentials for the transverse mechanics of nanotubes, Mechanics of Materials 35:193-215 (2003). [preprint]

  2. Bullet Marino Arroyo y Ted Belytschko, An atomistic-based finite deformation membrane for single layer crystalline films, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 50:1941-1977 (2002). [preprint]

  3. Bullet Pedro Díez, Marino Arroyo and Antonio Huerta, Adaptivity based on error estimation for viscoplastic softening materials, Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Materials 5:87-112 (2000). [preprint]

 

Researcher ID



Last Updated: November 2, 2009

Marino Arroyo

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Campus Nord, edifici C2

Jordi Girona 1-3 E-08034 Barcelona, Spain

 
 
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