Faculty

Emeritus Faculty

Part-Time Lecturer

Staff

Contact Info Anderson Hall Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Tel: 617-627- 6137 Fax: 617-627-3994 Email Professor View > Publications > Research

Luis Dorfmann
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Education
Ph.D., 1992, Structural Mechanics, University of California, Los Angeles
M.Sc., 1989, Structural Mechanics, University of California, Los Angeles
Laurea, 1987, Structural Engineering, University of Padova, Italy

Registrations
Registered Professional Engineer, CA, License Number: 60775

Teaching

• Strength of Materials
• Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• Biomechanics of Soft Tissue
• Nonlinear Finite Element Methods

Research Interests

• Nonlinear Magneto-and Electroelastic Deformations
• Mechanics of Rubberlike Solids
• Fiber-Reinforced Composites
• Mechanics of Biological Tissues
• Mechanics of Biocompatible Materials

Visit the Mechanics of Soft Materials Laboratory web site to learn more about Professor Dorfmann's research.

Selected Publications

• Dorfmann A., Trimmer B.A., Woods W.A.: Muscle Performance in a Soft-Bodied Terrestrial Crawler: Constitutive Modeling of Strain-Rate Dependency, Journal of Royal Society Interface 5 (2008), 349-362.
• Dorfmann A., Trimmer B.A., Woods W.A.: A Constitutive Model for Muscle Properties in a Soft Bodied Arthropod, Journal of Royal Society Interface 4 (2007), 257-269.
• Dorfmann A., Haughton D.M.: Stability and Bifurcation of Compressed Elastic Cylindrical Tubes, International Journal of Engineering Science 44 (2006), 1353-1365.
• Bustamante R., Dorfmann A.: Ogden R.W., Universal Relations in Isotropic Nonlinear Magnetoelasticity, The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 59 (2006), 435-450.
• Dorfmann A., Ogden R.W.: Nonlinear Electroelasticity, Acta Mechanica 174 (2005), 167-183.
• Dorfmann A., Ogden R.W.: Nonlinear Magnetoelastic Deformations, The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics 57 (2004), 599-622.
• Dorfmann A., Ogden R.W.: A Constitutive Model for the Mullins Effect with Permanent Set in Particle-Reinforced Rubber, International Journal of Solids and Structures 41 (2004), 1855-1878.
• Drozdov A.D., Dorfmann A.: A Micromechanical Model for the Response of Filled Elastomers at Finite Strains, International Journal of Plasticity 19 (2003), 1037-1067.

Selected Professional Activities

• Organizer and Co-Chair with Prof. Ray W. Ogden: Electro-and Magneto-Mechanical Interactions in Solids, 3^rd Canadian Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (CanCNSM), Toronto, Canada, June 18-22, 2008.
• Organizer and Co-Chair with Prof. Ray W. Ogden and Prof. Alan Wineman: New Directions in Large Deformation Solid Mechanics, 44^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, October 21-24, 2007.
• Organizer: Workshop on Physical Aspects of Multiscale Modeling. Bled, Slovenia, September 2004.
• Organizer and Co-Chair with Prof. Aleksey D. Drozdov: Advanced Course on Mechanics of Solid Polymers: The Kinetics of Irreversible Processes. International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), Udine, Italy, 2003.
• Organizer and Co-Chair with Prof. Aleksey D. Drozdov and Prof. Ray W. Ogden: Workshop: Inelasticity and Viscoelasticity of Rubber: From Theory to Application, Vienna 2002.
• Organizer and Co-Chair with Prof. Aleksey D. Drozdov and Prof. Ray W. Ogden: EUROMECH Colloquium 438: Constitutive Equations for Polymer Microcomposites: On the Border of Mechanics and Chemistry, Vienna 2002.
• Organizer and Co-Chair with Dr. Alan Muhr: European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, ECCMR, Vienna, 1999.