Our community of faculty scholars engage in interdisciplinary research that focuses on real world problems and lays the groundwork for the innovations of tomorrow that can improve the lives and the livelihood of people around the world. Their research generates the knowledge and understanding needed for a better society, and it strengthens our teaching mission by enriching our students' learning experience in and out of the classroom. We encourage you to further explore our featured undergraduate research work.
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Gibbons, Melissa
Journal Articles
- "Developing and assessing a collaborative open-ended design project with a renewable energy focus in an introductory thermal sciences course," International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 2024.
- With Stephen McNeela and James G Kohl, "Assessing the effect of a thickness gradient on the shear stress profile at the epoxy/silicone interface of thin coatings subjected to transverse shear loads with finite element analyses," 2023.
- With Dillon Muldoon and Imane Khalil, "Demonstrating the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Using a Low-Cost Experimental Apparatus and Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations Authors," vol. 8, 2023.
- With Kohl, J.G., "Using finite element analyses to assess the effect of a thickness gradient on the stress profile at the epoxy/silicone interface of thin coatings subjected to pull-off loading.," International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives, vol. 102, 102686, p. 102686, 2020.
- With Phohomsiri, P., Volman, V., Ciu, J., and Ng., L.J., "A fast-running, end-to-end concussion risk model for assessment of complex human head kinematics.," Military Medicine, vol. 183, p. 339–346, 2018.
- With Ng, L.J., Volman, V., Phohomsiri, P., Cui, J., and Swenson, D.J., Stuhmiller, J.H., "A mechanistic end-to-end concussion model that translates head kinematics to neurologic injury.," Frontiers in Neurology, vol. 8, p. 269, 2017.
- With Dang, X., Adkins, M., Powell, B., and Chan, P., "Finite element modeling of blast lung injury in sheep.," Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, vol. 137, 4, p. 041002, 2015.
- With Chou, T. and D’Orsogna, M.R. , "Diffusion-dependent mechanisms of receptor engagement and viral entry.," The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 114, 46, pp. 15403-15412, 2010.
- With Roos, W.H., Arkhipov, A., Uetrecht, C., Watts, N.R., Wingfield, P.T., Steven, A.C., Heck, A.J., Schulten, K., and Klug, W.S., Wuite, G.J., "Squeezing protein shells: how continuum elastic models, molecular dynamics simulations, and experiments coalesce at the nanoscale.," vol. 99, pp. 1175-1181, 2010.
- With Klug, W.S. , "Influence of nonuniform geometry on nanoindentation of viral capsids.," Biophysical Journal, vol. 95, 8, pp. 3640-3649, 2008.
- With Klug, W.S. , "Mechanical modeling of viral capsids.," Journal of Materials Science, vol. 42, 21, pp. 8995-9004, 2007.
- With Klug, W.S. , "Nonlinear finite-element analysis of nanoindentation of viral capsids.," Physical Review E, vol. 75, p. 031901, 2007.
- With Michel, J.P., Ivanovska, I.L., Klug, W.S., Knobler, C.M., Wuite, G.J.L., and Schmidt, C.F., "Nanoindentation studies of full and empty viral capsids and the effects of capsid protein mutations on elasticity and strength.," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 103, pp. 6184-6189, 2006.
Chapters of Books or Articles within Books
- With Perotti, L.E. and Klug, W.S. , "Computational mechanics of viral capsids." in Methods in Molecular Biology. 2015, pp. 139-188.