Eduardo Vitral specializes in mechanics of materials, developing theoretical and numerical work to investigate systems at different scales. Some of the topics he worked on include phase transformations in liquid crystals, compatibility conditions in martensitic transformations, patterning at nanoscale, and mechanics of soft materials. He enjoys teaching mechanics, programming, and numerical methods courses and is interested in giving engineering students more opportunities to broaden their computational, and data skills. You can learn more about him at: https://evitral.github.io
Academic Degrees
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, 2020
- MS in Mechanical Engineering, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), 2015
- BS in Materials Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 2014
Awards & Honors
Publications & Presentations
R.S. Hutton, E. Vitral, E. Hamm, J. Hanna, "Buckling mediated by mobile localized elastic excitations", PNAS Nexus (2024), 3 (4), pgae083
E. Vitral, "Stretching formulations and the Poynting effect in nonlinear elasticity", International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics (2023), vol. 148, 104293
A.H. Zahiri, E. Vitral, J. Ombogo, M. Lotfpour, L. Cao, "The role of mechanical loading in bcc-hcp phase transition: tension-compression asymmetry and twin formation", Acta Materialia (2022), vol. 241, 118377
E. Vitral, P.H. Leo, J. Viñals, "Phase-field model for a weakly compressible soft layered material: morphological transitions on smectic-isotropic interfaces", Soft Matter (2021), v. 17, issue 25, p. 6140-6159
E. Vitral, D. Walgraef, J. Pontes, G.R. Anjos, N. Mangiavacchi, "Nano-patterning of surfaces by ion sputtering: Numerical study of the anisotropic damped Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation", Computational Materials Science (2018), v. 146, p. 193-203
Research Experiences
- Continuum mechanics
- Nonlinear elasticity
- Computational materials science
- Phase-field and nonlocal modeling
- Fracture mechanics
Teaching Interests
- Mechanics of materials
- Numerical methods
- Programming and algorithms
- Applied mathematics