Ellad Tadmor
Professor

Professor Tadmor's research focuses on understanding material response from fundamental principles rather than phenomenology. Dr. Tadmor studies microscopic processes that lead to macroscopic phenomena such as fracture and plasticity using atomic-scale modeling and multiple-scale techniques. Dr. Tadmor is also interested, on a more basic level, in the connection between continuum theory and atomistic models. Some recent specific topics include:

The Quasicontinuum (QC) Method - continued development. For more information on the QC method please visit the QC website at http://www.qcmethod.com.
Peierls criterion for Deformation Twinning at Crack Tips.
Determination of Transition Paths using a Continuous Path Expansion.
Reliability of MEMS Devices.

Degrees

1996 - Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Brown University, USA
1991 - M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel
1987 - B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel

Experience

2006, Professor, Aerospace Engineering, University of Minnesota
2005, Associate Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
1999, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion,
1998, Lecturer, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
1996-1998, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
1996, Adjunct Professor and Research Associate, Division of Engineering, Brown University,
1989-1991, Research Engineer, Structural Analysis Group, Weapon Systems Division, RAFAEL - Israel Armament Development Authority,

Five Recent Publications

M. Arndt, V. Sorkin, E. B. Tadmor, 2009, Efficient Algorithms for Discrete Lattice Calculations, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 228, 4858-4880, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
R. E. Miller and E. B. Tadmor, 2009, A Unified Framework and Performance Benchmark of Fourteen Multiscale Atomistic/Continuum Coupling Methods, Model. Sim. Mat. Sci. Eng., , (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
E. B. Tadmor, V. Kalihari, G. Hegland and C. D. Frisbie, 2008, Grain Orientation Mapping of Polycrystalline Organic Semiconductors Films by Transverse Shear Microscopy, Advanced Materials, 20, 1-7, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
L. Kucherov and E. B. Tadmor, 2007, Twin nucleation Mechanisms at a Crack Tip in an HCP Material: Molecular Simulation, Acta Materialia, 55, 2065-2074, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
L. Kucherov, E. B. Tadmor and R. E. Miller, 2007, Umbrella Spherical Integration: A Stable Meshless Method for Nonlinear solids, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 69, 2807-2847, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF