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Martín I. Idiart

Adjunct Professor of Rational Mechanics 		 

Tel.: +54 (221) 423-6679
E-mail: martin.idiart@ing.unlp.edu.ar , mii23@cam.ac.uk
Office: Area Mecánica


RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Mechanical behaviour of materials
  • Nonlinear composites
  • Viscoplasticity of porous materials and polycrystals
  • Microstructure evolution in finite deformation processes
  • Homogenization methods


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2008-present: Adjunct Professor of Rational Mechanics. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
  • 2007-2008: Research Associate. University of Cambridge, U.K.


EDUCATION

  • 2006: Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. & Ecole Polytechnique, France.
  • 2001: B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering. Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.


PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

  1. M. I. Idiart (2008). Modeling the macroscopic behavior of two-phase nonlinear composites by infinite-rank laminates. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids , accepted.

  2. M. I. Idiart, N. A. Fleck (2008). The effect of interfaces on the plastic response of periodic composites. Philosophical Magazine, accepted.

  3. K. Danas, M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2008). A homogenization-based constitutive model for isotropic viscoplastic porous media. International Journal of Solids and Structures, accepted.

  4. K. Danas, M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2008). A homogenization-based constitutive model for two-dimensional viscoplastic porous media. Comptes Rendus Mécanique 336, 79-90.

  5. M. I. Idiart (2007). Nonlinear sequential laminates reproducing hollow sphere assemblages. Comptes Rendus Mécanique 335, 363--368.

  6. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2007). Variational linear comparison bounds for nonlinear composites with anisotropic phases. I. Theory. Proc. Royal Society A 463, 907-924.

  7. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2007). Variational linear comparison bounds for nonlinear composites with anisotropic phases. II. Crystalline materials. Proc. Royal Society A 463, 925-943.

  8. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2007). Field statistics in nonlinear composites. I. Theory. Proc. Royal Society A 463, 183-202.

  9. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2007). Field statistics in nonlinear composites. II. Applications. Proc. Royal Society A 463, 203-222.

  10. M. I. Idiart, K. Danas, P. Ponte Castañeda (2006). Second-order theory for two-phase composites and application to isotropic constituents. Comptes Rendus Mécanique 334, 575-581.

  11. M. I. Idiart, H. Moulinec, P. Ponte Castañeda, P. Suquet (2006). Macroscopic behavior and field fluctuations in viscoplastic composites: second-order estimates vs. full-field simulations. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 54, 1029-1063.

  12. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2005). Second-order estimates for nonlinear isotropic composites with spherical voids and rigid particles. Comptes Rendus Mécanique 333, 147-154.

  13. M. I. Idiart, P. Ponte Castañeda (2003). Field fluctuations and macroscopic properties in nonlinear composites. International Journal of Solids and Structures 40, 7015-7033.


PRESENTATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

  1. The effect of interfaces on the plastic behavior of periodic composites. Workshop on the Physics and Mechanics of Plasticity in Small Volumes, Cambridge, U.K., November 2007.

  2. Softening and interfaces in strain gradient plasticity. IUTAM Symposium on Multi-Scale Plasticity of Crystalline Materials, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, November 2007.

  3. Exact results for nonlinear sequential laminates. International Conference on Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Solids, Paris, France, July 2007.

  4. Macroscopic behavior, microstructure evolution and implications for stability in porous metals. 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder (CO), U.S.A., June 2006.

  5. Macroscopic behavior and field statistics in viscoplastic composites. 15th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Boulder (CO), U.S.A., June 2006.

  6. Macroscopic behavior and field fluctuations in viscoplastic composites: second-order estimates vs full-field simulations. International Conference on Computational Plasticity VII, Barcelona, Spain, September 2005.

  7. Field fluctuations and macroscopic properties of two-phase composites. 2003 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Washington DC, U.S.A., November 2003.

  8. Second-order estimates for the field fluctuations in two-phase composites. NSF-CNRS Meeting, Laboratoire de Mécanique et Acoustique, Marseille, France, June 2003.


SEMINARS

  1. A new constitutive model for viscoplastic porous media. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., February 2008.

  2. Macroscopic behavior and field statistics in viscoplastic composites. Departamento de Ciencias de los Materiales, E.T.S.C. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, January 2008.

  3. Homogenization estimates for viscoplastic composites: macroscopic behavior and field statistics. The Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., February 2007.

  4. Homogenization estimates for viscoplastic composites: macroscopic behavior and field statistics. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., February 2007.

  5. Macroscopic behavior and field statistics in viscoplastic composites. Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., October 2006.

  6. Macroscopic behavior and field statistics in viscoplastic composites. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), U.S.A., May 2006.

  7. Macroscopic behavior and field fluctuations in viscoplastic composites. Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides Seminar, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, November 2005.

  8. On the Hashin-Shtrikman variational principle for linear, heterogeneous media. Laboratoire de Mécanique des Solides, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, May 2005.

  9. Análisis estático de pala de helicóptero de materiales compuestos. Departamento de Aeronáutica, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina, March 2001.

Last updated: March 10, 2008.