海角社区 Boyd Professor Voyiadjis Has Book Published on Damage and Healing Mechanics
September 02, 2025
海角社区 Civil and Environmental Engineering Chair and Boyd Professor George Z. Voyiadjis
recently co-authored a book with 海角社区 CEE alumnus, scholar and educator Peter Kattan
that was published by Elsevier. This is Voyiadjis鈥� 24th book.
His 2025 publication is a 900-page book titled 鈥淒amage and Healing Mechanics of Materials: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites鈥� that covers the fundamentals of damage mechanics with various damage models presented coupled with elastic and elasto-plastic behavior. Experimental investigations and the related data for damage in composite materials are included, as are computational modeling and simulation methods for investigating damage and healing in various materials and structures.
鈥淗ealing mechanics using both scalars and more general theory based on scalars and tensor notations are discussed, as are applications of damage mechanics,鈥� Voyiadjis said. 鈥淯ndamageable materials, healing mechanics, the generalized method of cells, phase field modeling, fatigue damage, cyclic plasticity concepts, and more are all also covered.鈥�
Other key features in the book include an introduction to computational methods and numerical techniques such as finite element analysis and molecular dynamics to model and simulate damage and healing in various materials and structures; discussion on the ways cracks and voids are subjected to healing mechanisms and new composites that are designed to be more resilient and resistant to damage; and coverage of uniaxial tension in metal matrix composites, damage and plasticity in metals, experimental damage investigation techniques, anisotropic healing, and more.
Voyiadjis鈥� primary research interest is in plasticity and damage mechanics of metals, metal matrix composites, polymers and ceramics with emphasis on the theoretical modeling, numerical solution of material behavior, and experimental correlation. He recently received the American Society of Civil Engineers鈥� Engineering Mechanics Institute 2024 Theodore von K谩rm谩n Medal and received the 2023 Blaise Pascal Medal for Engineering from the Europea Academy of Sciences. He was also the recipient of the 2022 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Nadai Medal, of the Materials Division.
He was the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2012 Khan International Medal for outstanding lifelong Contribution to the field of Plasticity. He received the ICDM2 Lifetime Achievement Medal for his significant contribution to Continuum Damage Mechanics, presented to him during the Second International Conference on Damage Mechanics (ICDM2) in Troyes, France, in 2015. He is a Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Kattan is an independent researcher based in Amman, Jordan, and a visiting professor at 海角社区. He obtained his PhD in 1989 from 海角社区 under the direction of Dr. Voyiadjis. His research focuses on damage mechanics with fabric tensors and the physical characterization of micro-crack distributions and their evolution. He has published extensively on the refined theory of plates and shells, constitutive modelling of inelastic materials, and damage mechanics.