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Contact Information: ERF 3033 Phone : (312) 996-9631 Fax: (312) 413-0447 Email: ebudyn@uic.edu Laboratory: ERF 3032

Elisa Budyn
Assistant Professor

Engineering Diploma (1998)
Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics ( Paris, France)

M.S., Civil Engineering (1999)
Northwestern University

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering (2004)
Northwestern University

Selected Publications

• E. Budyn, G. Zi, N. Moës and T. Belytschko, "A Method for Multiple Crack Growth in Brittle Materials without Remeshing", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 61(10), pp. 1741-1770, 2004.
• G. Zi, J.H. Song, E. Budyn, S.H. Lee and T. Belytschko, "A method for growing multiple cracks without remeshing and its application to fatigue crack growth", Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 12 [5], pp. 901-915, 2004. Selected for inclusion in IOP ( Institute of Physics).
• G. Ventura, E. Budyn and T. Belytschko, "Vector Level Set for Description of Propagating Cracks in Finite Elements", International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 58, pp. 1571-1592, 2003.
• F.L. Stazi, E. Budyn, J. Chessa and T. Belytschko, "An Extended Finite Element Method with High-Order Elements for Curved Cracks", Special Issue of Computational Mechanics, vol. 31, pp. 38-48, 2002.

Research Interests

Dr. Budyn’s major interest is in developing innovative numerical techniques to model the geometry and mechanics of complex microstructures and to verify and guide concomitant experiments over the multiple scales necessary to their full understanding. Her research is currently focusing on multi-scale numerical models developed to characterize the mechanics of materials and biomaterials with multi-phase complex microstructures. The modes of failure of these microstructures though damage and then fracture processes are studied over the micro and nano scales and modeled through FEM and X-FEM approaches. Although important advances have been made in biological research, the mechanics of the structural components of many biological materials are not well understood at the micro and nano scales and progresses are needed to link the micro and the nano-scale behavior to the macroscopic behavior.

Laboratory

Computational Mechanics Laboratory
ERF 3032