Harold S. Park
Assistant Professor and Mechanical Engineering Chair's Faculty Fellow
(303) 492-7750
Harold.Park@colorado.edu
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern, 2004
- MS Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern, 2001
- BS Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern, 1999
Professional Recognition
- Woodward Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Faculty Award, 2007-2008
- DARPA Young Faculty Award, 2008
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Computational Study of Nanostructures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2008
- NSF Career Award, 2007
Research Interests
- Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS)
- Surface effects on the behavior and properties of nanowires
- Coupled physics (thermomechanical, electromechanical) behavior and properties of nanowires
Selected Publications
- H.S. Park, W. Cai, H.D. Espinosa and H. Huang. "Mechanics of Crystalline Nanowires", accepted for publication in MRS Bulletin 2009. (Invited review paper).
- S.Y. Kim and H.S. Park. "Utilizing Mechanical Strain to Mitigate the Intrinsic Loss Mechanisms in Oscillating Metal Nanowires", accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters 2008.
- H.S. Park. "Stress-Induced Martensitic Phase Transformation in Intermetallic Nickel Aluminum Nanowires", Nano Letters 2006; 6(5): 958-962.
- H.S. Park and P.A. Klein. "Surface Stress Effects on the Resonant Properties of Metal Nanowires: The Importance of Finite Deformation Kinematics and the Impact of the Residual Surface Stress", Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 2008; 56:3144-3166.
- W.K. Liu, E.G. Karpov and H.S. Park. "Nanomechanics and Materials: Theory, Multiple Scale Analysis and Applications", John Wiley and Sons , ISBN:0-470-01851-8, 2006.
- H.S. Park, K. Gall and J.A. Zimmerman. "Shape Memory and Pseudoelasticity in Metal Nanowires", Physical Review Letters 2005; 95:255504.