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Raul Radovitzky

Raul Radovitzky

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
37
Citations
5554
World Ranking
8390
National Ranking
2326

Overview

Raul Radovitzky is a researcher affiliated with MIT in the United States, specializing in engineering and materials science. Their work primarily focuses on mechanics of materials, materials chemistry, and computational mechanics, with additional contributions to ceramics and composites as well as mechanical engineering.

Their research spans various topics including numerical methods in engineering, advanced ceramic materials synthesis, shape memory alloy transformations, rock mechanics and modeling, fluid dynamics simulations and interactions, bone tissue engineering materials, and composite material mechanics.

Raul Radovitzky has published in several scientific venues, most frequently appearing in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Other notable publication venues include the AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, and Matter.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Strong fatigue-resistant nanofibrous hydrogels inspired by lobster underbelly (2021, Matter)
  • CT-based finite element simulating spatial bone damage accumulation predicts metastatic human vertebrae strength and stiffness (2024, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology)
  • A parallel staggered hydraulic fracture simulator incorporating fluid lag (2021, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering)
  • Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Process Zone Models for Thermal Induced Fractures and Fracture Reduced Heat Transfer (2023, AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum)
  • Blind prediction of curved fracture surfaces in gypsum samples under three-point bending using the Discontinuous Galerkin Cohesive Zone method (2024, Engineering Fracture Mechanics)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Daniel Pickard, Bianca Giovanardi, Christopher A. Schuh, Aaditya Rau, and Shaoting Lin.

Best Publications

  • A Cohesive model of fatigue crack growth

    O. Nguyen;E. A. Repetto;M. Ortiz;R. A. Radovitzky

  • Investigation of Three-Dimensional Aspects of Grain-Scale Plastic Surface Deformation of an Aluminum Oligocrystal

    Z. Zhao;M. Ramesh;D. Raabe;A.M. Cuitiño

  • Computational biology — Modeling of primary blast effects on the central nervous system

    David F. Moore;Antoine Jérusalem;Michelle Nyein;Ludovic Noels

  • Error estimation and adaptive meshing in strongly nonlinear dynamic problems

    R. Radovitzky;M. Ortiz

  • In Silico Investigation of Intracranial Blast Mitigation with Relevance to Military Traumatic Brain Injury

    Michelle K. Nyein;Amanda M. Jason;Li Yu;Claudio M. Pita

  • Lagrangian finite element analysis of Newtonian fluid flows

    R. Radovitzky;M. Ortiz

  • A scalable 3D fracture and fragmentation algorithm based on a hybrid, discontinuous Galerkin, Cohesive Element Method

    Raúl Radovitzky;Andrew Seagraves;Mike Tupek;Ludovic Noels

  • An approach for incorporating classical continuum damage models in state-based peridynamics

    M.R. Tupek;J.J. Rimoli;J.J. Rimoli;R. Radovitzky

  • Nonlinear compressibility effects in fluid-structure interaction and their implications on the air-blast loading of structures

    Nayden Kambouchev;Ludovic Noels;Raúl Radovitzky

  • An extended constitutive correspondence formulation of peridynamics based on nonlinear bond-strain measures

    Michael Ronne Tupek;Raul A Radovitzky

  • A general discontinuous Galerkin method for finite hyperelasticity. Formulation and numerical applications

    Ludovic Noels;Ludovic Noels;Raúl Radovitzky

  • A study of surface roughening in fcc metals using direct numerical simulation

    Z. Zhao;R. Radovitzky;A. Cuitiño

  • Finite‐element modeling of dry sliding wear in metals

    J. F. Molinari;M. Ortiz;R. Radovitzky;E. A. Repetto

  • The computation of the exponential and logarithmic mappings and their first and second linearizations

    M. Ortiz;R. A. Radovitzky;E. A. Repetto

  • Strong fatigue-resistant nanofibrous hydrogels inspired by lobster underbelly

    Jiahua Ni;Shaoting Lin;Zhao Qin;David Veysset;David Veysset

  • Influence of in-grain mesh resolution on the prediction of deformation textures in fcc polycrystals by crystal plasticity FEM

    Z. Zhao;S. Kuchnicki;R. Radovitzky;A. Cuitiño

  • A virtual test facility for the efficient simulation of solid material response under strong shock and detonation wave loading

    Ralf Deiterding;Raul Radovitzky;Sean P. Mauch;Ludovic Noels

  • An explicit discontinuous Galerkin method for non-linear solid dynamics. Formulation, parallel implementation and scalability properties.

    Ludovic Noels;Ludovic Noels;Raúl Radovitzky

  • Numerical simulation of the fluid-structure interaction between air blast waves and free-standing plates

    Nayden Kambouchev;Ludovic Noels;Raul Radovitzky

  • A Lagrangian-Eulerian shell-fluid coupling algorithm based on level sets

    Fehmi Cirak;Raúl Radovitzky

  • Finite element simulation of dynamic fracture and fragmentation of glass rods

    E.A. Repetto;R. Radovitzky;M. Ortiz

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludovic Noels
Ludovic Noels University of Liège
Michael Ortiz
Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology
Alberto M. Cuitiño
Alberto M. Cuitiño Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Jean-François Molinari
Jean-François Molinari École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Ravi Samtaney
Ravi Samtaney King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Robert M. McMeeking
Robert M. McMeeking University of California, Santa Barbara

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