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Department of Mechanical Engineering

Martin L. Dunn

Victor Schelke Professor and Department Chair
(303) 492-6542
Martin.Dunn@Colorado.EDU
Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1992
  • M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, 1989
  • B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Montana State University, 1987

Professional Recognition

  • Victor Schelke Endowed Chair, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado
  • Numerous best paper awards with students.
  • Numerous invited lectures at professional conferences.
  • National Science Foundation, Research Initiation Award
  • University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Award

Research Interests

  • Micro/nanomechanics of materials and structures
  • Mechanics and physics of heterogeneous media
  • Design of active materials and structures

Professor Dunn's research interests are broadly directed toward problems in the mechanics and physics of materials and structures, focusing on issues at small scales and how to incorporate these into the design of material and structural systems at higher length scales.  Specific emphasis has been directed toward the behavior of heterogeneous multifunctional material systems, shape memory polymers, piezoelectric materials, and materials and structures for microelectromechanical systems.  His research is based on a strong coupling between theoretical and experimental efforts. 

Selected Publications

  • Dunn, M. L. and Cunningham, S. J., 2006, Thermo- and Electromechanical Behavior of Thin-Film Micro and Nanostructures, Chapter 56 in the Handbook of Nanotechnology, 2nd Ed., B. Bhushan, Ed., Springer-Verlag.
  • Jones, K., and Dunn, M. L., 2008, “Fatigue Crack Growth through a Residual Stress Field Introduced by Plastic Beam Bending,” Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 31, pp. 863-875.
  • DelRio, F., Dunn, M. L., and, de Boer, M. P., 2008, “Capillary Adhesion Model for Contacting Micromachined Surfaces,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 59, Viewpoint Set No. 44, pp.916-920.
  • Evgrafov, A., Maute, K., Yang, R., and Dunn, M. L., 2008, “Topology Optimization of Nano- and Submicron-scale Heat Transfer,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, in press.
  • Dunn, M. L., 2007, “Photomechanics of Mono- and Polydomain Liquid Crystal Elastomer Films,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 102, 013506.
  • DelRio, F., Dunn, M. L., Phinney, L. M., Bourdon, C. J., and, de Boer, M. P., 2007, “Rough Surface Adhesion in the Presence of Capillary Condensation,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, 163104.
  • Rupp, C. J., Evgrafov, A., Maute, K., and Dunn, M. L., 2007, “Design of Phononic Materials/Structures for Surface Wave Devices Using Topology Optimization,” Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 34, pp. 111-121.
  • Diao, J., Gall, K., Dunn, M. L., and Zimmerman, J. A., 2006, “Atomistic Simulation of the Yield of Au Nanowires,” Acta Materialia, Vol. 54, pp. 643-653.
  • Pajot, J., Maute, K., Zhang, Y., and Dunn, M. L., 2006, “Design of Patterned Multilayer Films with Eigenstrains by Topology Optimization,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol., 43, pp. 1832-1853.
  • DelRio, F., de Boer, M. P., Knapp, J. A., Clews, P. J., and Dunn, M. L., 2005, “The Role of van der Waals Forces in Adhesion of Micromachined Surfaces,” Nature Materials, Vol. 4, pp. 629-634.