Oana Cazacu

Professor Cazacu’s research expertise is in theoretical and computational mechanics aimed at finding new ways to extend the range of applications of existing materials and virtual designing of new materials/microstructures for enhanced performance. She is world-renowned for contributions to constitutive modeling of anisotropy in non-linear deformation, damage and fracture with applications ranging from non-traditional manufacturing processes to impact, virtual testing and evaluation of hypersonic systems. Her anisotropic plasticity models are integrated into advanced general-purpose multi-physics simulation commercial and government finite-element software.

Dr. Cazacu joined the University of Arizona after a 21-year career at the University of Florida, where she served the as Charles E. Taylor Professor of Mechanics in mechanical and aerospace engineering, graduate research engineering and the Education Center, UF-REEF.

Dr. Cazacu has habilitation and doctoral degrees from University of Lille, France. She has chair professorships and visiting fellowships in Europe and Australia. She currently holds a Chair of Excellence in mechanics at the University Carlos iii, Madrid, Spain, is the deputy editor of the Plasticity of Materials book series (Elsevier) and the associated editor of the International Journal of Material Forming (Springer) and Mechanics Research Communications (Elsevier). She has co-authored two books, has edited and co-edited seven other books, published over 140 refereed papers.

Dr. Cazacu's research interests and expertise are in constitutive modeling of plasticity, damage and fracture of materials from single crystal to engineering scale. She has developed widely used anisotropic models for the inelastic behavior of materials at various length-scales and strain-rate regimes with applications ranging from manufacturing processes to impact and hypersonics virtual testing and evaluation.

Degrees

Interests

Courses

Selected Publications

Awards