Ryan B. Sills

Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering and is supported by the Doctoral Study Program at Sandia National Laboratories. His research is on dislocation dynamics in face-centered cubic metals. He is currently working to develop efficient time integration schemes for three-dimensional dislocation dynamics simulations and models for simulating solid solution strengthening.

Education

M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, June 2010
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cornell University, May 2009

Career

Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Sept. 2010 - Sept. 2012

Publications

R. B. Sills and M. D. Thouless, Cohesive-Length Scales for Intrinsic and Extrinsic Toughening Mechanisms, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Submitted (2014).

W. Cai, R. B. Sills, D. M. Barnett, and W. D. Nix, Modeling a Distribution of Point Defects as Misfitting Inclusions in Stressed Solids, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Submitted (2014).

R. B. Sills and W. Cai, Efficient Time Integration in Dislocation Dynamics, Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 22 (2014) 025003.

R. B. Sills and M. D. Thouless, The Effect of Cohesive-Law Parameters on Mixed-Mode Fracture, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 109, 353-368, (2013).

Contact Information

Durand 204
496 Lomita Mall
Stanford, CA 94305

Email: rbsills@stanford.edu