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  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Harold S. Park is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research contributions span primarily the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant focus on various related subfields including Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Mechanics of Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Their main topics of work cover a range of areas such as:

  • Graphene research and applications
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Composite Material Mechanics
  • Thermal properties of materials

Park has published research frequently in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Extreme Mechanics Letters
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Among recent papers are:

  • Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future (2022), Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
  • Multiscale computational understanding and growth of 2D materials: a review (2020), npj Computational Materials
  • Graphene Origami with Highly Tunable Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (2020), ACS Nano
  • Forward and inverse design of kirigami via supervised autoencoder (2020), Physical Review Research
  • A NURBS-based inverse analysis of swelling induced morphing of thin stimuli-responsive polymer gels (2022), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

They collaborate regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Jin-Wu Jiang
  • Xiaoying Zhuang
  • Yixuan Xue
  • Timon Rabczuk
  • Douglas P. Holmes

Harold S. Park has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2016.

Best Publications

  • A review on mechanics and mechanical properties of 2D materials—Graphene and beyond

    Deji Akinwande;Christopher J. Brennan;J. Scott Bunch;Philip Egberts

  • Negative poisson’s ratio in single-layer black phosphorus

    Jin-Wu Jiang;Harold S. Park

  • An introduction to computational nanomechanics and materials

    W. K. Liu;Eduard Karpov;S. Zhang;H. S. Park

  • Nanomechanical resonators and their applications in biological/chemical detection: Nanomechanics principles

    Kilho Eom;Harold S. Park;Dae Sung Yoon;Taeyun Kwon

  • Molecular dynamics simulations of single-layer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2): Stillinger-Weber parametrization, mechanical properties, and thermal conductivity

    Jin Wu Jiang;Harold S. Park;Timon Rabczuk

  • Nano Mechanics and Materials: Theory, Multiscale Methods and Applications

    Wing Kam Liu;Eduard G. Karpov;Harold S. Park

  • A level-set based IGA formulation for topology optimization of flexoelectric materials

    Hamid Ghasemi;Harold S. Park;Timon Rabczuk;Timon Rabczuk

  • Deformation of FCC nanowires by twinning and slip

    Harold S. Park;Ken Gall;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

  • Mechanical properties of single-layer black phosphorus

    Jin-Wu Jiang;Harold S Park

  • Shape memory and pseudoelasticity in metal nanowires.

    Harold S. Park;Ken Gall;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

  • Modeling inelasticity and failure in gold nanowires

    Harold S. Park;Jonathan A. Zimmerman

  • A multi-material level set-based topology optimization of flexoelectric composites

    Hamid Ghasemi;Harold S. Park;Timon Rabczuk;Timon Rabczuk

  • Eighty Years of the Finite Element Method: Birth, Evolution, and Future.

    Wing Kam Liu;Shaofan Li;Harold Park

  • An introduction and tutorial on multiple-scale analysis in solids

    Harold S. Park;Wing Kam Liu

  • The bridging scale for two-dimensional atomistic/continuum coupling

    Harold S. Park;Eduard G. Karpov;Wing Kam Liu;Patrick A. Klein

  • Superplastic Deformation of Defect-Free Au Nanowires via Coherent Twin Propagation

    Jong Hyun Seo;Jong Hyun Seo;Youngdong Yoo;Na Young Park;Sang Won Yoon;Sang Won Yoon

  • Mechanics of Crystalline Nanowires

    Harold S. Park;Wei Cai;Horacio D. Espinosa;Hanchen Huang

  • Elastic bending modulus of single-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2): finite thickness effect

    Jin Wu Jiang;Zenan Qi;Harold S. Park;Timon Rabczuk;Timon Rabczuk

  • Bridging Scale Methods for Nanomechanics and Materials

    Wing Kam Liu;Harold S. Park;Dong Qian;Eduard G. Karpov

  • A surface Cauchy-Born model for nanoscale materials

    Harold S. Park;Patrick A. Klein;Gregory J. Wagner

  • Atomistic simulations of tension-induced large deformation and stretchability in graphene kirigami

    Zenan Qi;David K. Campbell;Harold S. Park

Frequent Co-Authors

J. G. Smith
J. G. Smith University of Colorado Boulder
John Yelton
John Yelton University of Florida
Paul Avery
Paul Avery University of Florida
Marina Artuso
Marina Artuso Syracuse University
R. Mountain
R. Mountain Syracuse University
A. J.R. Weinstein
A. J.R. Weinstein California Institute of Technology
E. H. Thorndike
E. H. Thorndike University of Rochester
M. L. Perl
M. L. Perl Stanford University
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Barry C. Barish
Barry C. Barish California Institute of Technology

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