Nasr M. Ghoniem, Ph.D.
(Wisconsin, 1977)

ghoniem@seas.ucla.edu
48-121F, Eng IV
(310) 825-4866

Link(s):

Laboratory of Micromechanics and Plasma Processing of Materials

Areas of Interest:

Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons).

Selected Recent Publications:

Sharafat, Shahram, Nasr M. Ghoniem, and Steve Zinkle, “Thermodynamic Stability of Oxide, Nitride, and Carbide Coating Materials in Liquid Sn-25Li,” J. Nucl. Mat. 329-333, 1429-1433 (2004). [PDF]

S.J. Noronha, J. Huang, N.M. Ghoniem, "Multiscale Modeling of the Brittle-to-Ductile-Transition," J. Nucl. Mater. 329–333, 1180–1184 (2004). [PDF]

Xueli Han and Nasr M. Ghoniem, “Stress Field and Interaction Forces of Dislocations in Anisotropic Multilayer Thin Films,” Phil. Mag. 85(11), 1205-1225 (2005). [PDF]

Ming Wen, Nasr M. Ghoniem, and B. Singh, "Dislocation Decoration and Raft Formation in Irradiated Materials," Phil Mag. 85(22), 2561–2580 (2005). [PDF]

Nasr M. Ghoniem, Editor, "Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling," UCLA Publication, October 11-15, 2004, Los Angeles, California.

Nasr M. Ghoniem and Nick Kioussis, "Hierarchial Models of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics," Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology; Edited by Michael Rieth and Wolfram Schommers, American Scientific Publisher 1, 1–97 (2005). [PDF]