Prof. Haim Waisman
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).
