About me
Professional background · 17 July 2022
I am a research scientist in the
Multiscale Materials Group
in the
Computational Sciences and Engineering Division
at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
I have adjunct faculty appointment with
Purdue University, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
I work on development and application of
computational methods
for solving problems in materials, materials processing, and multi-physics.
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Research interests
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- Modeling and testing of materials and structures under impact loading
- Damage, fracture, and failure in materials and structures
- Strain-rate sensitivity in lightweight materials
- Size effects, localization, scaling of strength and fracture
- High performance computing
- Modeling of multiphysics and multiscale phenomena
- Modeling of heterogeneous chemically reacting flows
- Modeling of carbon-fiber composites manufacturing
- Thermodynamics of nuclear materials
- Modeling of Li-ion batteries
- Parallel time integration for power systems dynamics
- Modeling of additive manufacturing
- Visit my ORNL staff profile for up to date list of publications.
Education
- Ph.D. Computational Mechanics/Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1993)
- M.S. Computational Mechanics/Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (1991)
- B.S. Civil Engineering, University of Split, Croatia (1988)
Recent news & updates
Returned to ORNL · January 2024
On assignment to the U.S. Senate · January 2021
Link
Patent issued on electrode design · 29 December 2018
US Patent US009847531.
News articles on the electrode design · 12 January 2018
Breakable electrode design brings safer batteries for electric cars.
ORNL team proposes new electrode design to mitigate risk of battery failure in accidents.
A lithium-ion battery inspired by safety glass.
New paper on mechanics of battery separators · 16 December 2017
Sergiy Kalnaus, Abhishek Kumar, Yanli Wang, Jianlin Li, Srdjan Simunovic, John A. Turner, Phillip Gorney; Strain distribution and failure mode of polymer separators for Li-ion batteries under biaxial loading, Journal of Power Sources, Volume 378, 28 February 2018, Pages 139-145. [50days free link]
New paper on breakable electrodes · 15 December 2017
Michael Naguib, Srikanth Allu, Srdjan Simunovic, Jianlin Li, Hsin Wang, Nancy J. Dudney; Limiting Internal Short-Circuit Damage by Electrode Partition for Impact-Tolerant Li-Ion Batteries, Joule, 2018, [in print].
Out of office · 17 December 2015
I will be out of office from December 21st until December 28th, 2015. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com. For immediate assistance, please contact Nancy Valentine at valentinen@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
New CEES Group homepage · 02 December 2015
Old homepage has been retired.
Out of office · 12 June 2015
I will be out of office attending a conference from June 15th until June 23th, 2015. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com but do not count on a quick reply. My phone number while away will be +385-95-507-5611. For immediate assistance, please contact Nancy Valentine at valentinen@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
Crashworthiness of Carbon Fiber Composites · 14 Feb 2015
Website with the crash tests data for carbon fiber composites. link
Computational Pyrolysis Consortium (CPC) · 14 Aug 2014
CPC project site up again. link
Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation (NEAMS) · 1 Aug 2014
Updated results for thermochemical modeling for NEAMS project at link
Out of office · 18 July 2014
I will be out of office from July 21st until August 8th, 2014. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com but do not count on a quick reply. You can also call me at +385-95-582-0229 (011-385-95-582-0229 when calling from the USA). For an immediate assistance, please contact Nancy Valentine at valentinen@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
Out of office · 30 May 2014
I will be out of office from May 30th until June 16th, 2014. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com but do not count on a quick reply. You can also TEXT me at 865-771-9919. For immediate assistance, please contact Nancy Valentine at valentinen@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
Ballistic Impact of Particulate Materials · 10 Jan 2014
Workflow [ link ] for making DEM models for processed X-ray tomography images for various sand materials.
Out of office · 24 July 2013
I will be out of office from July 26 until August 14 2013. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com but do not count on a quick reply. You can also TEXT me at 865-771-9919. For immediate assistance, please contact Billy Fields at fieldsbd@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
Computer Aided Engineering for Batteries · 22 Jul 2013
Processed images [ link ] for battery electrodes from: Ebner M, Geldmacher F, Marone F, Stampanoni M, Wood V. X-Ray Tomography of Porous, Transition Metal Oxide Based Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes. Advanced Energy Materials 2013. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201200932.
Modeling of Particulate Materials · 14 Jul 2013
Processed images and animations of small sand sample [ link ]
Modeling of Particulate Materials · 21 Jun 2013
Added website for the project.
Long Carbon Fiber Thermoplastic Predictive Modeling · 12 April 2013
Added website for the project.
Out of office · 28 March 2013
I will be out of office from March 29 until April 1 2013. You can email me at simunovics@yahoo.com but do not count on a quick reply. For immediate assistance contact Billy Fields at fieldsbd@ornl.gov or 865-241-0212.
Updated Spotweld Modeling project website model section. · 25 March 2013
Spotweld Models for Advanced High Strength Steels model section was updated.
Composites Crashworthness · 13 March 2013
Added website for the project.
Updated BatteryML specification (CAEBAT site) · 31 October 2012
Battery Markup Language (BatteryML) schema was updated. BatteryML documents can be validated from the web site.
Added armor research project web page · 23 July 2012
Added site for geometrically order composite armor.
CMS Group homepage · 5 July 2012
Old homepage for Computational Materials Science Group is out of date. It is being slowly retired as I find some free time. The highschool student who made it is a grown man with two kids. The group is actually a different group now.
The updated list of research projects is in the right column.
Started blog · 7 July 2012
Links and information related to my work. See Recent news & updates below.
Start logging · 3 July 2012
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Reset updates. Old pages have been retired.