• Instructional Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Zubaer Hossain

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 2011
  • M.Sc.Engg., Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - 2006
  • B.Sc.Engg., Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - 2003

Research Interests

    • Solid mechanics and fracture in composites
    • Physics of crack nucleation and crack path formation in brittle composites
    • Effective toughness of heterogeneous materials
    • Mechanics of multimaterial additive manufacturing
    • Quantum mechanics of defects in semiconductors
    • Mechanics of quantum confinement in photovoltaics
    • Personalized engineering education and learning
    • Advanced learning methods and technologies
    • Outcome oriented pedagogical models and structures

Selected Publications

  • Crack-path bifurcation, arrest, and renucleation in porous 3C-SiC; Fazle Elahi and Zubaer M Hossain; J of Applied Physics 131, 115105 (2022)
  • Strain induced second order Jahn-Teller reconstruction and magnetic moment modulation at monovacancy in graphene; Claire Andreasen, Tengyuan Hao, Julia Hatoum, and Zubaer M Hossain; J of Applied Physics 130, 034303 (2021)
  • Strength evolution laws in curing of solvent-welded polymers; Tousif Ahmed, Bing Han, Michael Sulecki, Merigrace Ferrill, and Zubaer M Hossain; Physical Review E 103, 022502 (2021)
  • Atomistic mechanisms of crack nucleation and propagation in amorphous silica; Tengyuan Hao and Zubaer M Hossain; Physical Review B 100, 014204 (2019)
  • Effective toughness of heterogeneous media; Zubaer M Hossain, Chun-Jen Hsueh, Blaise Bourdin, and Kaushik Bhattacharya; J of Mechanics and Physics of Solids 71, 5 (2014)