Dr. Yooseob Song
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Edinburg: EACSB 1.205
Yooseob.Song@utrgv.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Louisiana State University, 2018
- M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea 2008
- B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University, South Korea 2006
Biography
Yooseob Song, Ph.D., P.E. is an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His primary research is in analytical and numerical aspects of solid mechanics. Specific interests include strain gradient continuum and crystal plasticity, crystal plasticity finite element method, AI assisted design of high-entropy alloys, mechanics of high-entropy alloys, numerical analysis of extreme loading events, piezoelectric energy harvesting, and high-performance cluster computing. He authored 1 book, 2 book chapters, and >30 journal papers. While working in the private sector as a structural engineer, he designed various types of civil infrastructures including bridge, tunnel, subway station, etc. Dr. Song teaches structural steel design; reinforced concrete design; CE materials; bridge design.
Research Interests
- Computational solid mechanics:
- Multiscale constitutive modeling.
- AI assisted design of high-entropy alloys.
- Temperature- and rate-dependent constitutive modeling.
- Plasticity:
- Strain gradient continuum plasticity under small and large deformations.
- Crystal plasticity finite element method.
- Dynamic strain aging (bcc, fcc, hcp, metal alloys, high-entropy alloys).
- Extreme loading conditions:
- Numerical simulation of infrastructures under aircraft impact.
- Multi-physics simulation with Eulerian and Lagrangian domain of blast wave.
- Piezoelectric energy harvesting:
- Constitutive modeling of piezoelectric materials.
- Numerical modeling of unimorph and bimorph harvester.
- Validation (theoretical and experimental).
- High performance computing:
- MPI and OpenMP.
- Linux cluster.
- Sustainable and resilient infrastructure systems:
- Energy harvesting from infrastructures.
- Interdisciplinary research combining solid mechanics, structural engineering, computational mechanics, and energy engineering.