Rui Huang

Rui Huang received his Bachelor degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1994 and his PhD degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering, with specialty in Mechanics of Materials and Structures, from Princeton University in 2001. He joined the University of Texas at Austin as an Assistant Professor in September 2002 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor in 2014. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in solid mechanics and materials. His areas of research include mechanics of hydrogels and soft materials, two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials and thin films, thermomechanical reliability of microelectronic devices and packaging. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2006 and was elected Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2014.

Education:

• Ph.D. (2001) Princeton University
• M.Eng. (1996) University of Science and Technology of China
• B.S. (1994) University of Science and Technology of China

Teaching:

• Nonlinear Mechanics of Soft Materials (EM 397, Fall 2019)
• Solid Mechanics I (EM388/ASE384.P1, Fall 2019)
• Fracture Mechanics (EM388F, Spring 2019, Fall 2013, Spring 2008)
• Aerospace Materials Lab (ASE324L, Spring 2019)
• Statics (EM 306, Fall 2018)
• Continuum Mechanics (EM 384K, Fall 2018)
• Mechanics of Solids (EM 319, Summer 2014)
• Thin Film Mechanics (EM397, Fall 2011)
• Wave Propagation (EM394V, Spring 2006)

Research Interests:

• Mechanics of graphene and other 2D materials
• Mechanics of soft active materials
• Mechanics of thin film materials
• Computational mechanics, multiscale modeling and simulations
• Current and past research topics
• Research group members
• Research ID: B-1627-2008 or T-3017-2017
• My Citations by Google Scholar

Selected Publications (list all):

• D.F.V. de Mattos, R. Huang. K.M. Liechti, The Effect of Moisture on the Nonlinearly Viscoelastic Behavior of an Epoxy. Submitted, October 2019.
• Y. Yu, N. Bouklas, C.M. Landis, R. Huang, Poroelastic effects on the time and rate dependent fracture of polymer gels. J. Appl. Mech., accepted, September 2019. DOI
• Y. Yu, C.M. Landis, R. Huang, Poroelastic effects on steady state crack growth in polymer gels under plane stress. Submitted, May 2019.
• C. Xu, T. Yang, Y. Kang, Q. Li, T. Xue, K.M. Liechti, R. Huang, W. Qiu, Rate-dependent decohesion modes in graphene sandwiched interfaces. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 1901217 (2019). DOI
• B. Smith, L. Lindsay, J. Kim, E. Ou, R. Huang, L. Shi, Phonon Interaction with Ripples and Defects in Thin Layered Molybdenum Disulfide. Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 221902 (2019). DOI: 10.1063/1.5099103.
• G. Wang, Z. Dai, J. Xiao, S. Feng, C. Weng, L. Liu, Z. Xu, R. Huang, Z. Zhang, Bending of multilayer van der Waals materials. Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 116101 (2019). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.116101.
• T. Yang, X. Yang, R. Huang, K.M. Liechti, Rate-dependent traction-separation relations for a silicon/epoxy interface informed by experiments and bond rupture kinetics. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 131, 1-19 (2019). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2019.06.013.
• C. Wu, R. Huang and K.M. Liechti, Simultaneous extraction of tensile and shear interactions at interfaces. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 125, 225-254 (2019).
• Y. Yu, C.M. Landis, R. Huang, Steady-State Crack Growth in Polymer Gels: A Linear Poroelastic Analysis. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 118, 15-39 (2018).
• D. A. Sanchez, Z. Dai, P. Wang, A. Cantu-Chaveza, C. J. Brennan, R. Huang, N. Lu, Mechanics of Spontaneously Formed Nanoblisters Trapped by Transferred 2D Crystals. PNAS, 115, 7884-7889 (2018). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1801551115.
• F. Ahmadpoor, P. Wang, R. Huang, P. Sharma, Thermal Fluctuations and Effective Bending Stiffness of Elastic Thin Sheets and Graphene: A Nonlinear Analysis. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 107, 294-319 (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.07.11.
• G. Wang, Z. Dai, Y. Wang, P. Tan, L. Liu, Z. Xu, Y. Wei, R. Huang, Z. Zhang, Measuring Interlayer Shear Stress in Bilayer Graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 036101 (2017). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.036101. Featured in Physics Focus: Graphene Sliding on Graphene. Editors' Suggestion: Highlights.
• D. Akinwande, C.J. Brennan, J.S. Bunch, P. Egberts, J.R. Felts, H. Gao, R. Huang, J.-S. Kim, T. Li, Y. Li, K.M. Liechti, N. Lu, H.S. Park, E.J. Reed, P. Wang, B.I. Yakobson, T. Zhang, Y.-W. Zhang, Y. Zhou, Y. Zhu, A Review on Mechanics and Mechanical Properties of 2D Materials - Graphene and Beyond. Extreme Mechanics Letters 13, 42-72 (2017). DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2017.01.008. Preprint at arXiv:1611.01555.
• S.R. Na, X. Wang, R.D. Piner, R. Huang, C.G. Willson, K. M. Liechti, Cracking of Polycrystalline Graphene on Copper Under Tension. ACS Nano 10, 9616-9625 (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05101.
• P. Wang, W. Gao, R. Huang, Entropic effects of thermal rippling on van der Waals interactions between monolayer graphene and a rigid substrate. Journal of Applied Physics 119, 074305 (2016). Preprint at arXiv:1511.02914.
• S. Chatterjee, C. McDonald, J. Niu, S. Velankar, P. Wang, R. Huang, Wrinkling and folding of thin films by viscous stress. Soft Matter 11, 1814-1827 (2015). DOI: 10.1039/C4SM02501F.
• W. Gao and R. Huang, Thermomechanics of monolayer graphene: Rippling, thermal expansion and elasticity. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 66, 42-58 (2014). DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2014.01.011.
• T. Jiang, S.-K. Ryu, Q. Zhao, J. Im, R. Huang and P.S. Ho, Measurement and Analysis of Thermal Stresses in 3D Integrated Structures Containing Through-Silicon Vias. Microelectronics Reliability 53, 53-62 (2013). DOI: 10.1016/j.microrel.2012.05.008. "Highly Cited Research in Microelectronics Reliability".
• R. Huang and Z. Suo, Electromechanical phase transition in dielectric elastomers. Proc. Royal Soc. A 468, 1014-1040 (2012). DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0452.
• H. Mei, C.M. Landis, R. Huang, Concomitant wrinkling and buckle-delamination of elastic thin films on compliant substrates. Mechanics of Materials 43, 627-642 (2011). DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2011.08.003.