Hussein M. Zbib - Director and Professor

The School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Hussein M. Zbib - Director and Professor

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Contact Information:

office Sloan 201
telephone 509 335 8654
e-mail director@mme.wsu.edu
Postal mail Hussein M. Zbib
School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Washington State University
PO BOX 642920
Pullman, WA 99164-2920
Hussein M. Zbib

Joined MME in 1988
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Michigan Technical University in 1987

Research Interests:

  • Mechanics: Multiscale modeling, numerical analysis, plasticity, composites, materials instabilities, damage and fracture.
  • Materials: Dislocation theory, dislocation dynamics, crystal plasticity, defects, radiation effects, nanomaterials.

Significant Publications:

  • Zbib, H.M., Rhee, M. and Hirth, J.P., “On Plastic Deformation and the Dynamics of 3D Dislocations”, Int. J. Mech. Science, 40, 113-127, 1998.
  • Diaz de la Rubia, T., Zbib, H.M., T. Khraishi, B. Wirth, Victoria, M. and M. Caturla, “Flow Localization in Irradiated Materials: A Multiscale Modeling Approach”, Nature, 406, 871-874, 2000.
  • Zbib, H.M., and Diaz de la Rubia, T., “A Multiscale Model of Plasticity”, Int. J. Plasticity, 18, 1133-1163, 2002

Recent Publications:

  • Mastorakos, I.N., Zbib. H.M., and D.F. Bahr, Deformation Mechanisms and Strength in Metallic Nanolaminate Composites with Coherent and Incoherent Interfaces94, 173114 Applied Physics Letters (2009). [Also was selected as an article in “focused area of frontier research” in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, May 2009; http://www.vjnano.org/
  • Groh S., Marin, EB, Horstemeyer, MF, and Zbib, HM, Multiscale Modeling of Plasticity in an Aluminum Single Crystal, Int. Journal of Plasticity,25, 1456-1473, 2009.
  • Mastorakos, I.N., Zbib, H.M., Bahr, D.F., Parsons, J and Mased, F. Pseudoelastic Behavior of Cu-Ni Composite Nanowires, Appl. Phys. Letters. 94, Issue 4, 043104, 2009.
  • Akarapu, S. Zbib, H.M., and Hirth, J.P., Modeling and Analysis of Disconnections in Tilt Walls, Scripta Materialia 59, 265-267 (2008).
  • Akasheh, F., Zbib, H.M., Hirth, J.P., Hoagland, R.G., Misra, A., "Dislocation Dynamics Analysis of Dislocation Intersections in Nanoscale Multilayer Metallic Composites," J. Applied Physics, 101, 084314 (2007).
  • Ohashi, T., Kawamukai, M and Zbib, H.M. "A Multiscale Approach for Modeling Scale-Dependent Yield stress in Polycrystalline Metals," Int. J. Plasticity, 23, 8970914, 2007.
  • Shehadeh, M., Bringa, E.M., Zbib, H.M., McNaney, J.M. and Remington, B.A., "Simulation of shock-induced plasticity including homogeneous and Heterogeneous dislocation nucleation," Applied Physics Letters, 89, 171918, 2006.
  • Akarapu, S. and Zbib, H.M., "Numerical Analysis of Plane Cracks in Strain-Gradient Elastic Materials," Int. J. Fracture, 141, 403-430, 2006.
  • Mastorakos, I., and Zbib, H.M., "Shielding and amplification of a penny-shape crack due to the presence of dislocations," Int. J. Fracture, 142, 103-117, 2006.

National & International Recognition:

  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2002)
  • Computational Mechanics Achievement Award, Japanese Society of Mechanical Engineers(2003)
  • Member: Academy of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University 2004
  • Member: Lebanese Academy of Sciences http://www.asliban.org/

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