- Professor, Aerospace Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-4006
- Email: jdw@tamu.edu
- Office: HRBB 724
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Materials Engineering Science, VPI & SU - 1988
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University - 1976
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University - 1973
Research Interests
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- Prediction of damage initiation and growth in cryogenic composites and foams
- Multiscale computational mechanics from nano to macro
- Multifunctional materials
- Numerical simulation of electric double layer supercapacitor
- Mechanics of textile composites
- Mechanics of polymer film scratching
- Novel finite element analysis strategies
Selected Publications
- Inducing Fiber Entanglement to Achieve Realistic Tow Fiber Volume Fractions in Textile Reinforced Composite ModelsG Barlow, D Mollenhauer, E Zhou, J Whitcomb, SE Stapleton Computer-Aided Design 162, 103546
- Remaining Challenges in the Application of High-Performance Computing to a Process-to-Performance Pipeline for Textile CompositesMK BALLARD, E IARVE, J WHITCOMB, V SHANKAR, H SUNDAR, ... PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR COMPOSITES-THIRTY-SEVENTH TECHNICAL …
- An Extended Critical Failure Volume Method for Strength Prediction in 3D Woven Textile CompositesMK Ballard, EV Iarve, J Whitcomb, D Mollenhauer, O Shor, D Rittel AIAA SCITECH 2022 Forum, 2597
- Detailed stress analysis of a twill orthogonally woven textile compositeMK Ballard, JD Whitcomb Journal of Composite Materials 54 (25), 3801-3820
- Multiscale analysis of interlaminar stresses near a free-edge in a [±45/0/90]s laminateMK Ballard, JD Whitcomb Journal of Composite Materials 54 (13), 1627-1638
- Effect of Local Fiber Volume Fraction Variation on Stress-States in a Twill Orthogonally Woven Textile CompositeJD WHITCOMB, MK BALLARD Proceedings of the American Society for Composites — Thirty-fifth …
- Stress analysis of a plain orthogonally woven textile composite under tension along the warp directionM Keith Ballard, JD Whitcomb Journal of Composite Materials 53 (20), 2809-2829
- Effect of heterogeneity at the fiber–matrix scale on predicted free-edge stresses for a [0°/90°]s laminated composite subjected to uniaxial tensionMK Ballard, JD Whitcomb Journal of Composite Materials 53 (5), 625-639
- Investigation of a Twill Orthogonally Woven Textile Composite Under In-Plane ExtensionJ WHITCOMB, K BALLARD Proceedings of the American Society for Composites — Thirty-fourth …
- Stress analysis of 3D textile composites using high performance computing: new insights and challengesMK Ballard, JD Whitcomb IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 406 (1), 012004