Brian Moran

Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

A234 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

E-mail address: b-moran@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-8793
Fax: (847) 491-4011

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• B.E. Civil Engineering, National University  of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 1980
• M.Eng.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 1982
• Sc.M. Applied Mathematics, Brown University, 1986
• PhD. Engineering - Solid Mechanics, Brown University, 1988

Research

Computational methods in engineering and science, continuum mechanics, fracture mechanics. Current research activities include constitutive modeling and micromechanics of fracture and failure, multi-scale modeling of materials, development of the natural element method, mechanics of biofilms, biomechanics of the human spine, tissue mechanics.

Honors and Awards

• Fellow ASME.
• Best Paper Award, SPIE Symposium on NDE, 2005.
• W.M. Keck Foundation Grant/Award for Engineering Teaching Excellence, 1994.
• Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll for Teaching 1989-90
• McCormick Faculty Teaching Honor Roll 1989-90.
• IBM Research Fellowship, California Institute of Technology, 1987-88.
• Brown University Fellowship, 1982-83.
• National University of Ireland, Bursary in Civil Engineering, 1980.

Selected Publications

• Caner, F. Z. Guo, B. Moran, Z. Bazant, I. Carol, “Hyperelastic Anisotropic Microplane  Constitutive Model and a Comparison of Models for Annulus Fibrosus – accepted for publication in J. Biomechanical Engineering, 2007.
• Guo, Z., Peng, X.Q., and Moran, B. “Mechanical Response of Neo-Hookean Fiber-Reinforced Composites” Int. J. Solids and Strictures, 44, 6, 1949-1969, 2007.
• Guo, Z., Peng, X.Q., and Moran, B. “A Composites-Based Hyperelastic Constitutive Model for Soft Tissue with Application to the Human Annulus Fibrosus,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 54, 1952-1971, 2006.
• Peng, X.Q., Guo, Z., and Moran, B. “An Anisotropic Hyperelastic Constitutive Model with Fiber-Matrix Shear Interaction for the Human Annulus Fibrosus,” J. Appl. Mech. 73, 815, 2006.
• Bordas, S., and Moran, B., "Enriched Finite Elements and Level Sets for Damage Tolerance Assessment of Complex Structures," Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 73, 1176-1201, 2006
• Belytschko, T., Liu, W.K., and Moran, B., Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures, Wiley, New York (2000)