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Brian Moran
Professor,
Department Chair - Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road, Rm. A234
Evanston, IL 60208-3109, USA

TEL: 847-491-8793
FAX: 847-491-4011

b-moran@northwestern.edu

Brian Moran's CV

B.E. Civil Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland(1980)
M.Eng.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland(1982)
Sc.M. Applied Mathematics, Brown University (1986)
PhD. Solid Mechanics, Brown University(1988)

Honors and Awards

  • Fellow ASME.
  • Best Paper Award, SPIE Symposium on NDE, 2005.
  • W.M. Keck Foundation Grant/Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence, 1994.
  • Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching 1989-90
  • McCormick Faculty Teaching Honor Roll 1989-90.
  • IBM Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1987-88.
  • Brown University Fellowship, 1982-83.
  • National University of Ireland, Bursary in Civil Engineering, 1980.

Research: Computational methods; continuum and fracture mechanics; material instability; micromechanics and composite materials

Computational methods in engineering and science, continuum mechanics, fracture mechanics. Current research activities include constitutive modelling and micromechanics of fracture and failure, multi-scale modelling of materials, development of the natural element method, mechanics of biofilms, biomechanics of the human spine, tissue mechanics.  

Selected publications

Caner, F. Z. Guo, B. Moran, Z. Bazant, I. Carol, “Hyperelastic Anisotropic Microplane Constitutive Model and a Comparison of Models for Annulus Fibrosus – accepted for publication in J. Biomechanical Engineering, 2007.

Guo, Z., Peng, X.Q., and Moran, B. “Mechanical Response of Neo-Hookean Fiber-Reinforced Composites” Int. J. Solids and Strictures, 44, 6, 1949-1969, 2007.

Guo, Z., Peng, X.Q., and Moran, B. “A Composites-Based Hyperelastic Constitutive Model for Soft Tissue with Application to the Human Annulus Fibrosus,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 54, 1952-1971, 2006.

Peng, X.Q., Guo, Z., and Moran, B. “An Anisotropic Hyperelastic Constitutive Model with Fiber-Matrix Shear Interaction for the Human Annulus Fibrosus,” J. Appl. Mech. 73, 815, 2006.

Bordas, S., and Moran, B., "Enriched Finite Elements and Level Sets for Damage Tolerance Assessment of Complex Structures," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 73, 1176-1201, 2006

Belytschko, T., Liu, W.K., and Moran, B., Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures, Wiley, New York (2000)