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Michael Ortiz
Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering

B.S., Polytechnic University of Madrid, 1977
M.S., University of California, 1978
Ph.D., University of California, 1982

1200 East California Boulevard, MS 105-50
Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
tel (626) 395-4530
fax (626) 449-6359

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Virtual facility for simulating the dynamic response of materials (CACR); design and testing of materials by computation: a multiscale approach; the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (CSEM); ferroelectric thin films; Center for Development of Structural Amorphous Alloys; Multiscale Modeling and Process Optimization for Engineered Microstructural Complexity (MURI); Center for Integrative Multiscale Modeling and Simulation (CIMMS); simulation of dynamic fracture and fragmentation of shell structures, with application to the assessment and optimization of double-hull designs (ONR); Director's Research and Development Fund Proposal FY 2004 (JPL); ITR-ASE-sim (collaborative research): DeNovo hierarchical simulations of stress corrosion cracking in materials; numerical simulation of shockwave lithotripsy.

Space-Related Research: Inflatable space structures; helicopter rotor-blade dynamics.


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