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D-Index
38
Citations
4838
World Ranking
2306
National Ranking
832

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Alan T. Zehnder is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Medicine, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Computer Networks and Communications, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their recent research outputs include publications on topics such as hydrogels, elasticity and material modeling, mechanical and optical resonators, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, nonlinear dynamics and pattern formation, photonic and optical devices, and advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms.

Among notable recent papers are:

  • Determination of material parameters in constitutive models using adaptive neural network machine learning, 2023, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Metamodeling of constitutive model using Gaussian process machine learning, 2021, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Time dependent fracture of soft materials: linear versus nonlinear viscoelasticity, 2020, Soft Matter
  • Effect of drying on the viscoelastic response of a dual-crosslinked PVA hydrogel, 2021, Mechanics of Materials
  • Physically motivated models of polymer networks with dynamic cross-links: comparative study and future outlook, 2021, Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Chung-Yuen Hui
  • Jikun Wang
  • Bangguo Zhu
  • Aditya Bhaskar
  • Richard H. Rand

Zehnder's publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, SSRN Electronic Journal, Soft Matter, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, and Extreme Mechanics Letters.

They have been recognized with the title of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2013.

Best Publications

  • On the temperature distribution at the vicinity of dynamically propagating cracks in 4340 steel

    Alan T. Zehnder;Alan T. Zehnder;Ares J. Rosakis

  • Velocity field for the trishear model

    Alan T Zehnder;Richard W Allmendinger

  • Dynamic fracture initiation and propagation in 4340 steel under impact loading

    Alan T. Zehnder;Ares J. Rosakis

  • Optically pumped parametric amplification for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Olkhovets;A. Zehnder;B. Ilic

  • Autoparametric optical drive for micromechanical oscillators

    M. Zalalutdinov;A. Zehnder;A. Olkhovets;S. Turner

  • Limit cycle oscillations in CW laser-driven NEMS

    K. Aubin;M. Zalalutdinov;T. Alan;R.B. Reichenbach

  • A theory for the fracture of thin plates subjected to bending and twisting moments

    C. Y. Hui;Alan T. Zehnder

  • Mechanical models of fault propagation folds and comparison to the trishear kinematic model

    Néstor Cardozo;Kavi Bhalla;Alan T Zehnder;Richard W Allmendinger

  • A model for the heating due to plastic work

    Alan T. Zehnder

  • Fracture Mechanics of Thin Plates and Shells Under Combined Membrane, Bending, and Twisting Loads

    Alan T. Zehnder;Mark J. Viz

  • Frequency entrainment for micromechanical oscillator

    M. Zalalutdinov;K. L. Aubin;M. Pandey;A. T. Zehnder

  • Interface shear stresses induced by non-uniform heating of a film on a substrate

    M.T.A. Saif;C.Y. Hui;A.T. Zehnder

  • Delamination buckling and propagation analysis of honeycomb panels using a cohesive element approach

    Tong Seok Han;Ani Ural;Chuin Shan Chen;Alan T. Zehnder

  • Lecture Notes on Fracture Mechanics

    Alan Zehnder

  • Measurements and Simulations of Temperature and Deformation Fields in Transient Metal Cutting

    Yogesh K. Potdar;Alan T. Zehnder

  • Frequency locking in a forced Mathieu–van der Pol–Duffing system

    Manoj Pandey;Richard H. Rand;Alan T. Zehnder

  • Normal modes of a Si(100) double-paddle oscillator

    Christoph L. Spiel;R. O. Pohl;Alan T. Zehnder

  • Dynamic full field measurements of crack tip temperatures

    P.R Guduru;A.T Zehnder;A.J Rosakis;G Ravichandran

  • An experimental study of muonic X-ray transitions in mercury isotopes

    A.A. Hahn;J.P. Miller;R.J. Powers;A. Zehnder

  • Fracture mechanics approach to facesheet delamination in honeycomb: measurement of energy release rate of the adhesive bond

    Anı Ural;Alan T Zehnder;Anthony R Ingraffea

  • On the dynamic fracture of structural metals

    Ares J. Rosakis;Alan T. Zehnder

Frequent Co-Authors

Harold G. Craighead
Harold G. Craighead Cornell University
Chung-Yuen Hui
Chung-Yuen Hui Cornell University
Richard H. Rand
Richard H. Rand Cornell University
Ares J. Rosakis
Ares J. Rosakis California Institute of Technology
Barry D. Davidson
Barry D. Davidson Syracuse University
Anthony R. Ingraffea
Anthony R. Ingraffea Cornell University
Bojan Ilic
Bojan Ilic National Institute of Standards and Technology
Petr Vogel
Petr Vogel California Institute of Technology
David A. Czaplewski
David A. Czaplewski Argonne National Laboratory

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