Research Interests: Mechanics of materials, polycrystalline materials, computational mechanics, multi-scale modeling, inverse problems

Professor Maniatty's general area of research is in the broad field of computational solid mechanics. Specific problems being currently investigated include modeling crystalline materials and inverse/optimization problems. In the area of modeling crystalline materials, work is being done to use micromechanics as a basis for modeling large strain metal forming problems. Work is also being done to model stresses and defect formation in thin metal films on semiconductor wafers and in semiconductor crystals during the growth process. The other area of research involves inverse and optimization problems. This work investigates problems with either unknown boundary conditions or unknown parameters. Applications include optimization of forming processes, determining elastic stiffness in human tissue from ultrasonic or MRI measurements of displacements, and determining unknown boundary conditions in contact problems for modeling and predicting wear.