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    BRANDON RUNNELS, PHD

    Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace


    Engineering University of Colorado Colorado Springs
    Osborne Center for Science and Engineering A431
    1420 Austin Blu s Pkwy
    Colorado Springs, Colorado 80198
    phone: (719) 255-3430
    email: [email protected]
    web: solids.uccs.edu

    EDUCATION

    Ph.D Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . June, 2015


    California Institute of Technology
    Research advisor: Professor Michael Ortiz
    M.S. Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    June, 2012 California Institute of Technology

    B.S. Mechanical Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .


    May, 2011 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

    RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

    Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 2015 - present


    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
    Grain boundary anisotropy: capturing the e ect of orientation-dependent interface energy on grain boundary
    strength and microstructural evolution
    Potential-dependence of molecular statics predictions of grain boundary energy
    High performance computing on heterogeneous architectures, domain-speci c programming languages
    Continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling of stretchable low-dimensional materials (cables, membranes).
    Graduate Research Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .September 2011 - June 2015
    Department of Mechanical Engineering
    California Institute of Technology
    Interfaces: new models for computing the free energy of an interface and the temperature-dependent
    morphology with arbitrary orientation between two crystalline materials
    Plasticity: novel methods for generalizing single slip crystal plasticity models to multi-slip systems.
    Phase transformation: Improvements on a computational implementation of the lamination method for phase
    tran-sition by implementing a novel initial-guess optimization method.
    Simulation: Computational models (both engineering and rst-principles) to inform design of RT/RM turbulence
    experiments at Omega and NIF, and validate material models.
    Research Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .June
    2006 - August 2015 Los Alamos National Laboratory
    T-3, Theoretical Division: Continued development of the general relaxed interface energy model for interfaces,
    with applications towards nanolayered composites manufactured using severe plastic deformation. (Mentor: Dr.
    Irene Beyerlein)
    XCP-5, Computational Physics Division: Development of a model for thermally activated dislocation cross-slip
    in materials; development of computational methods for testing the model. (Mentor: Dr. Dean Preston)
    XCP-2, Computational Physics Division: Computational Physics Student Summer Workshop: Turbulent mixing
    group. Implementation of the fractional step method for simulation of Rayleigh Taylor mixing. (Mentor: Dr.
    Malcolm Andrews)
    X-4, Applied Physics Division: Massively parallel multiphysics simulations of shape charges. (Mentor: Dr. Mark
    Carrera)

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    CCS-2, Continuum Mechanics Group: Code pro ling tools for multiphysics code, and GPU adaption of code
    packages. (Mentor: Dr. Bryan Lally)

    TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    Assistant Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    August 2015 - present University of Colorado Colorado Springs
    MAE2103: Undergraduate Engineering Mechanics I
    MAE3201: Undergraduate Mechanics of Materials
    MAE4000: Undergraduate Engineering Seminar
    MAE5100: Graduate Continuum Mechanics
    MAE5201: Graduate Solid Mechanics
    Graduate Teaching Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2013
    - May 2014 California Institute of Technology
    AE102: Mechanics of solids and structures (graduate level)
    CS101: High performance computing
    Teaching Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January
    2010 - May 2010 New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
    MATH332: Vector Analysis

    AWARDS AND HONORS


    Spring 2014: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
    Summer 2014: Seaborg Institute Research Fellowship

    SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES

    Referee, Scripta Materialia, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets (AIAA), Computational Materials Science,
    Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
    Symposium Organizer, Engineering Mechanics Institute (2016), Society of Engineering Science (2016-2017),
    United States National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2018)
    Organizer, UCCS Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Research Seminar Series . . . . . . . . . August 2016 - present

    ADVISING

    Sabine Zentgraf (PhD 2020, expected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .September 2016-present

    Josep Maria Gras Ribot (PhD 2020, expected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 2016-present

    Faraz Saleem (MS 2018, expected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016-present

    Irene Delgado (MS 2019, expected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .June 2017-present

    Monica Ayuso Martinez (BS 2017, expected) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .January 2017-present

    GRANT AND CONTRACT ACTIVITIES

    Computational analysis of the mechanical properties of metal oxides in poly(vinylidene uoride)/poly(lactic acid)
    composites from atomistic simulations for additive manufacture of solid propellant
    Funding Source: Air Force O ce of Scienti c Research Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
    Role: Principal Investigator
    Time on project: 100%
    Computational theoretical, multiscale, and phenomenological modeling of solid & uid mechanics in extreme
    environments Funding Source: National Science Foundation Extreme Science and Engineering Development
    Environment (XSEDE) Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    Time on project: n/a (supplemental computational resource allocation grant)

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    PUBLICATIONS

    B. Runnels, D. Karls, R. Elliott, E. Tadmor


    Potential-dependence of atomistic grain boundary energy calculations using the OpenKIM framework
    In preparation, 2017

    B. Runnels
    A projection-based reformulation of the coincident site lattice for arbitrary bicrystals at nite
    temperature
    Acta Crystallographica A - Advances 2017

    B. Runnels; I.J. Beyerlein; S. Conti; M. Ortiz;


    An analytical model of interfacial energy based on a lattice-matching interatomic
    energy Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2016
    B. Runnels; I.J. Beyerlein; S. Conti; M. Ortiz;
    A relaxation method for the energy and morphology of grain boundaries and
    interfaces Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2015
    A. Zagrai, W. Reiser, B. Runnels, C. White, A. Light-Marquez, S. Marinsek, A. Murray, S.
    Taylor, G. Park and C. Farrar
    Active structural health monitoring during sub-orbital space ight
    Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 132, 2012
    W. Reiser and B. Runnels; C. White; A. Marquez; A. Zagrai; D. Siler; S. Marinsek; A. Murray;
    S. Taylor; G. Park; C. Farrar; R. Sansom
    Design, Development, and Assembly of Sub-Orbital Space Flight Structural Health Monitoring
    Experiment
    SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8348, 2012

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