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Assistant Professor Haim Waisman Joins Faculty

08/26/2008

Assistant professor Haim Waisman joined the faculty of the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in Summer 2008. Dr. Waisman earned his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic University in 2005. Later he became a postdoctoral fellow at the department of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University and in the last year was a Senior Research Scientist in the private sector.

Dr. Waisman develops novel computational methods to model material failure due to quasi-static, fatigue, and blast loads. His current research focuses on the Extended Finite Element method (XFEM) to model cracks and crack propagation without user intervention. Applications include delamination of composite structures, structural health monitoring, shear band localization, and bio materials. He also develops multigrid and multiscale methods to model and accelerate the response of systems that include multiple length and time scales.  Dr. Waisman is the recipient of two best paper awards at the Copper Mountain conference on Multigrid and Iterative Methods (2005, 2006) and has been a finalist in the Melosh medal competition on finite element methods (2006).