Mike Veilleux

MS/PhD Candidate

Cornell University

639 Rhodes Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone: (607)-254-8840

Email: mgv5@cornell.edu

Academic Background

Degrees:

B.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (May, 2003)

Current Research:

My graduate research is one component of the Structural Integrity Prognosis System (SIPS) project, which focuses on optimizing the accuracy of structural integrity prognosis for American Military and NASA aerospace vehicles. I am advancing meshing tools and applying best-known physics in a meso-scale FEM framework for the purpose of developing more accurate, multi-scale structural damage models of air vehicles.

Most recently, I have clipped and meshed multiple realistic 7075-T651 aluminum alloy polycrystalline representative volume elements (RVE). The periodic digital structure was created by Dr. Anthony Rollett and Steve Sintay at Carnegie Melon University (CMU). Using data retrieved from a Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) scan, our CMU colleagues created a digital replication using groups of stretched Voronoi tessellations to represent each grain. The clipping algorithm, created by Wash Wawrzynek and myself, clips against the bounding box of an RVE and outputs the microstructure as a topology file, which is then meshed using our microstructure meshing tool, PolyMesh. A 1,516 grain polycrystal is shown below.

Sponsored by: United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

Completed Research:

Sandia National Labs, Practicum (May-August, 2005):

The project goal was to develop a finite element framework that accurately models impact-induced damage of armor-grade ceramics. My practicum focused on two phases of this project:

1) Verifying that onset of failure was mesh-independent when applying a previously implemented spatial variability framework

2) Proposing an energy-based method that substantially decreases the mesh bias in simulations of failure progression

Funded by: United States Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF)

Accolades and Achievements:

United States Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (CSGF): September, 2004-August, 2008

About Me

I am from Oakland, Maine, which is located in the Belgrade Lakes, approximately 60 miles inland from Acadia National Park. I love the outdoors, and when I need a break from my research I am often fishing, hunting, hiking, skiing, or golfing. Also, as you may have assumed from the picture, I am a die-hard Sox fan.

I had not experienced life away from Maine until I attended WPI for undergraduate studies. It was there where I received my B.S. in May of 2003. My area of study was Civil Engineering, with a focus in Structural Engineering. After finishing at WPI, I immediately started my graduate work at Cornell. In August of 2003 I enrolled as an M.S./PhD. candidate in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Soon afterward, I joined the Cornell Fracture Group to work on the research I described above.