I have a PhD in applied mechanics from Montana State University. My dissertation research was in discrete element modeling of fracture in snow, focused on analysis of energy release during failure.

PhD in Applied Mechanics, specializing in structural and thermal simulations in solids.

I also have professional experience as a bicycle mechanic, pedicab owner/operator, surveyor and geotechnical engineer.

Numerical Simulation Portfolio

Transient Heating + Material Ablation

A client requested a model in MATLAB that would support his experimental work. He was dealing with laser heating of… Read more Transient Heating + Material Ablation

Microstructural Simulation of Material Failure

  The discrete element method was used to simulate the micromechanics of failure in alpine snow, a bonded, granular material.… Read more Microstructural Simulation of Material Failure

Fully Coupled Thermal/Structural

This was a fully coupled transient analysis performed in ANSYS using elements with structural and thermal degrees of freedom. The… Read more Fully Coupled Thermal/Structural

Publications

LeBaron and Miller. MICROMECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF ENERGY RELEASE IN SNOW FRACTURE. International Snow Science Workshop 2016

LeBaron and Miller. AN ENERGY-BASED MICROSTRUCTURAL CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR FRACTURE IN SNOW. International Snow Science Workshop 2014

LeBaron, Miller and van Herwijnen. Measurements of the deformation zone around a split-axis snow micropenetrometer tip. Cold Regions Science and Technology. 2014.

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