Reaz Chaudhuri

Biography

 Reaz Chaudhuri received his MS (Applied Mechanics/Mechanical Engineering) from Caltech, Pasadena, and Ph.D. (Computational Structural Mechanics/Civil Engineering) from USC, Los Angeles.  Earlier he had received his BE in Civil and MS in Aeronautical Engineering from IIEST, Shibpur and IIT, Madras, respectively. Professor Chaudhuri is highly active in analytical, computational (including material and geometric nonlinearity) and experimental mechanics of composite materials/structures and fracture mechanics for over 35 years. He has taught 15 graduate (including 5 developed by him) and 12 undergraduate (including 1 developed by him) Civil, Mechanical and Materials Engineering courses at the University of Utah. He has made a number of seminal contributions, which resulted in 130+ refereed journal publications, 1 book chapter, 2 in peer reviewed conference proceedings and 69 conference presentations. He also has had about 20 invited presentations at both the national and international levels. Professor Chaudhuri has published seminal papers in the fields of 3D fracture mechanics of single crystals and composite/isotropic plates, solutions to boundary-value problems (BVP) of laminated composite plates/shells, compression failure/fracture in advanced composites, localization/delocalization effects in composite cylinders/rings due to thickness and material nonlinearity, post-processing of finite element results for computation of interlaminar stresses in semi-perforated composite plates, extension of Euler's buckling to imperfect structures via nonlinear resonance technique, commingled graphite/glass composites among others. Some of these problems solved by him were hitherto considered nearly impossible to solve (e.g., BVP of laminates) and/or fraught with controversies (e.g., 3D fracture).  

Research Interest

 Three-Dimensional Singular Stress Fields at the Front of Interfacial Crack/Anticrack Type Discontinuities in Trimaterial Bonded Plates.