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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
10994
World Ranking
904
National Ranking
382

Materials Science

D-Index
55
Citations
10931
World Ranking
8594
National Ranking
2114

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Warner T. Koiter Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

P. Ponte Castañeda is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and specializes in Engineering, particularly focusing on the mechanics of materials. Their research integrates advanced mathematical modeling and numerical methods applied to composite materials and fluid dynamics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Composite Material Mechanics
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
  • Mechanical Behavior of Composites
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling

Their scholarly work frequently appears in several publication venues, such as:

  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • Notices of the American Mathematical Society
  • European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids

Recent papers authored or co-authored by P. Ponte Castañeda include:

  • "Modeling Sea Ice," 2020, Notices of the American Mathematical Society
  • "A differential homogenization method for estimating the macroscopic response and field statistics of particulate viscoelastic composites," 2020, International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • "Tangent second-order homogenisation estimates for incompressible hyperelastic composites with fibrous microstructures and anisotropic phases," 2020, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Homogenization, macroscopic instabilities and domain formation in magnetoactive composites: Theory and applications," 2022, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • "Anisotropic Oldroyd-type models for non-colloidal suspensions of viscoelastic particles in Newtonian and yield-stress fluids via homogenization," 2021, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

Frequent co-authors of P. Ponte Castañeda include:

  • Shuvrangsu Das
  • Christoph Kammer
  • Joshua Furer
  • Peter J Caulfield
  • Mikhael Tannous

The scientist's recognition includes the Warner T. Koiter Medal awarded by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2016 and being named a Fellow of the same society in 2014.

Best Publications

  • The effective mechanical properties of nonlinear isotropic composites

    P.Ponte Castañeda

  • The effect of spatial distribution on the effective behavior of composite materials and cracked media

    P.Ponte Castañeda;J.R. Willis

  • Second-order homogenization estimates for nonlinear composites incorporating field fluctuations: I—theory

    Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • Exact second-order estimates for the effective mechanical properties of nonlinear composite materials

    P.Ponte Castañeda

  • Self-consistent modelling of the mechanical behaviour of viscoplastic polycrystals incorporating intragranular field fluctuations

    R. A. Lebensohn;C. N. Tomé;P. Ponte CastaÑeda

  • New variational principles in plasticity and their application to composite materials

    P.Ponte Castañeda

  • Influence of the Lode parameter and the stress triaxiality on the failure of elasto-plastic porous materials

    Kostas Danas;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • Constitutive models for porous materials with evolving microstructure

    P.Ponte Castañeda;M. Zaidman

  • Homogenization-based constitutive models for magnetorheological elastomers at finite strain

    P. Ponte Castañeda;E. Galipeau

  • On the accuracy of the self-consistent approximation for polycrystals: comparison with full-field numerical simulations

    R.A. Lebensohn;Y. Liu;P. Ponte Castañeda

  • A general constitutive theory for linear and nonlinear particulate media with microstructure evolution

    M. Kailasam;P.Ponte Castañeda

  • A finite-strain model for anisotropic viscoplastic porous media: I – Theory

    Kostas Danas;Kostas Danas;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • Microscopic and macroscopic instabilities in finitely strained porous elastomers

    Jean-Claude Michel;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Oscar Lopez-Pamies;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Nicolas Triantafyllidis

  • A second-order homogenization method in finite elasticity and applications to black-filled elastomers

    P. Ponte Castañeda;E. Tiberio

  • Macroscopic behavior and field fluctuations in viscoplastic composites: Second-order estimates versus full-field simulations

    Martin Idiart;Hervé Moulinec;Pedro Ponte Castañeda;Pierre Suquet

  • On the overall behavior, microstructure evolution, and macroscopic stability in reinforced rubbers at large deformations: I—Theory

    O. Lopez-Pamies;O. Lopez-Pamies;P. Ponte Castañeda;P. Ponte Castañeda

  • Second-order homogenization estimates for nonlinear composites incorporating field fluctuations: II—applications

    Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • A finite-strain constitutive model for magnetorheological elastomers: Magnetic torques and fiber rotations

    Evan Galipeau;Pedro Ponte Castañeda

  • On the Overall Properties of Nonlinearly Viscous Composites

    P. Ponte Castañeda;John Raymond Willis

  • Variational estimates for the creep behaviour of polycrystals

    G. deBotton;P. Ponte Castañeda

Frequent Co-Authors

Oscar Lopez-Pamies
Oscar Lopez-Pamies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kostas Danas
Kostas Danas École Polytechnique
Ricardo A. Lebensohn
Ricardo A. Lebensohn Los Alamos National Laboratory
Pierre Suquet
Pierre Suquet Aix-Marseille University
Nicolas Triantafyllidis
Nicolas Triantafyllidis École Polytechnique
Michel Bornert
Michel Bornert École des Ponts ParisTech
Guoan Li
Guoan Li Newton Wellesley Hospital
John R. Willis
John R. Willis University of Cambridge
Donna K. Blackman
Donna K. Blackman University of California, San Diego
Stephan Rudykh
Stephan Rudykh University of Wisconsin–Madison

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