Sumukh Shankar Pande Defends Doctoral Dissertation Doctoral, Defenses / November 27, 2023 Share: Author: Claire Sibley Dr. Sumukh Shankar Pande successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Mechanics-Informed Optimization for Enhanced Adhesion and Toughness” under the advisory of Professor and Chair Kevin Turner on November 27, 2023. This thesis addresses the challenge of optimizing structures against failure at interfaces, presenting a computational framework that integrates mechanics models and optimization schemes to enhance adhesion and toughness, demonstrated through successful experiments and improvements in various structural design cases. Read the full abstract.. Pande has accepted a position as Senior Research Engineer at Saint-Gobain Research North America. Read More Shane Rozen-Levy Defends Doctoral Dissertation Penn Receives $2 Million NASA Grant for TRUSSES Project to Study Lunar Robotics
