- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-4201
- Email: ccbenjamin@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 527
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Educational Background
- Ph.D, Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, Madison — 2017
- M.S., Engineering Mechanics, University of Wisconsin, Madison — 2013
- B.S., Optical Physics, Saginaw Valley State University — 2011
Research Interests
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Dr. Benjamin studies continuum mechanics and it’s applications to soft materials. In particular, Dr. Benjamin is interested in the rheology of complex-fluids, polymeric fluids and the mechanical behavior of soft biological tissues. His lab's current project involve the study of the initiation and propagation of aortic dissection and the rheological characterization of stimuli-responsive hydrogels.
Awards & Honors
- 2015 Delta Teaching Certification
- 2012 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)
- 2012 Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
- 2011 Graduate Engineering Research Fellow, (GERS) University of Wisconsin, Madison
- 2011 Sigma-Pi-Sigma (SPS) Society of Physics Students
- 2011 American Physics Society (APS)
Selected Publications
- M. Arjmand, C. Benjamin, and I. Szlufarska. "Analytical elastoplastic analysis of heteroepitaxial core-shell nanowires." AIP Advances 9.5 (2019): 055119.
- C.C. Benjamin, M. Myneni, A. Muliana, K.R. Rajagopal "Motion of a finite composite, cylindrical annulus comprised of nonlinear elastic solids subject to periodic shear", International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics (2019)
- C.C. Benjamin, R. J. Craven, W. C. Crone, and R. S. Lakes. "Viscoelastic characterization of pH-sensitive 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (2-dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate HEMA-DMAEMA hydrogels." Polymer Testing (2018).
- C.C. Benjamin, R.S. Lakes, W.C. Crone, "Measurement the stiffening parameter for 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (2-dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate (HEMA-DMAEMA) stimuli-responsive hydrogels, Acta Mechanica, (2018).
- C.C. Benjamin, R.S. Lakes, W.C. Crone, Viscoelastic Relaxation of HEMA-DMAEMA Responsive Hydrogels, Proceedings of the 2016 SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics.
- C.C. Benjamin, J.C. Springmann, S.A. Chindhy, W.C. Crone, "Experimental Tools for Responsive Hydrogel Characterization", In Fracture and Fatigue, Volume 7, pp 7-11, Proceedings of the 2013 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Springer International Publishing.