• Professor, Mechanical Engineering
  • Chair, Faculty Mentoring and Success, Mechanical Engineering
  • Linda & Ralph Schmidt ‘68 Professor
  • College of Engineering Faculty Ombudsperson
Anastasia Muliana

Educational Background

  • Ph.D, Structural Engineering and Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology – 2004
  • M.S, Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology – 1999
  • B.S, Civil Engineering, Bandung Institute of Technology – 1997

Research Interests

    • Durability of polymers and composites exposed to harsh environments
    • Nonlinear constitutive modeling of polymers and composites
    • Thermal stresses and warpages
    • Multi-scale analyses of heterogeneous structures
    • Temporal and spatial analyses of multi-field problems
    • Flexible and reconfigurable structures
    • Plant biomechanics
    • Structural and computational mechanics

Certifications & Memberships

  • Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers – 2016

Awards & Honors

  • Cain Faculty Fellow I – 2016-2019
  • William Keeler Memorial Award – 2016
  • Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) Faculty Fellow – 2016
  • William Keeler Memorial Award – 2015
  • The Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, College of Engineering at Texas A&M University – 2015

Selected Publications

  • Song* R and Muliana A, “Modeling Mechanical Behaviors of Plant Stems undergoing Microstructural Changes” Mechanics of Materials, 139, 103175, 2019
  • Gomez FE, Mullet JE, Muliana AH, Niklas KJ, and Rooney WL “The Genetic Architecture of Biomechanical Traits in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.)” accepted Crop Science 2019
  • Gagani A, Fan* Y, Muliana A, and Echtermeyer A, “Micromechanical Modeling of Anisotropic Water Diffusion in Glass Fiber Epoxy Reinforced Composites” Journal Composite Materials, 52, 2321-2335, 2018
  • Xing* J, Radovic M, and Muliana A, “A Nonlinear Constitutive Model for Describing Cyclic Mechanical Responses of BaTiO3/Ag Composites” Acta Mechanica, 228, pp. 2017-2032, 2017
  • Tajeddini* V and Muliana A, “Deformation of Flexible and Foldable Electro-active Composite Structures” Composite Structures, 160, pp. 280-291, 2017