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Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science


Phone: 412-624-9031
Fax: 412-624-4846
Office: BENDM 635

Education

PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003

Professional Interests

Lisa Weiland’s research focuses on the experiment- and physics-based constitutive modeling of smart materials, with a strong secondary emphasis on applications.  She is directing the development of the new Mechanics of Active Materials Laboratory, in which active materials such ferroelectric ceramics, electroactive polymers, and nastic materials will be considered both experimentally and computationally.  The goal of research is to understand the multi-scale physics responsible for the transduction behavior observed in active materials in order to expand their viable engineering applications which range from shape morphing structures to bio-sensors.

Selected Publications

Vishnu Baba Sundaresan, Chris Homison, Lisa M. Weiland, and Donald J. Leo, 2006, “Biological Transport Processes for Microhydraulic Actuation,” Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 123(2): 685-695.

Lisa Mauck Weiland, Emily  K. Lada, Ralph C. Smith, and Donald J. Leo, 2005, “Application of Rotational Isomeric State Theory to Ionic Polymer Stiffness Predictions,” Journal of Materials Research, 20(9), September 2005.

Jessica L. Mathews, Emily K. Lada, Lisa M. Weiland, Ralph C. Smith, and Donald J. Leo, 2006, “Monte Carlo Simulation of a Solvated Ionic Polymer with Cluster Morphology,” Smart Materials and Structures, 15: 187-199.

Lisa Mauck Weiland and Donald J. Leo, 2005, “Computational Analysis of Ionic Polymer Cluster Energetics”, Journal of Applied Physics, 97, 013541; also selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology, December 27, 2004.

Lisa Mauck Weiland and Donald J. Leo, 2004, “Electrostatic Analysis of Cluster Response to Electrical and Mechanical Loading in Ionic Polymers with Cluster Morphology,” Smart Materials and Structures, 13(2):  323-336.

Lisa Mauck Weiland and Christopher S. Lynch, 2003, “Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Behavior of Ferroelectric Materials Part II:  Introduction of Rate and Self-Heating Effects,”   Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 14(10):  605-621.

Lisa D. Mauck and Christopher S. Lynch, 2003, “Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Behavior of Ferroelectric Materials:  A Micro-Electro-Mechanical Model vs. Experimental Results,”  Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 14(9):  587-602.

William S. Oates, Lisa D. Mauck, Christopher S. Lynch, 2002, “System Dynamic Modeling of a Piezoelectric Hydraulic Pump,” Proc. SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng, 4693:  598-606.

L. D. Mauck, W. S. Oates, and C. S. Lynch, 2001 “Piezoelectric Hydraulic Pump Performance”, Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng, 4332:  246-253.

Lisa Mauck, Jaqueline Menchaca, and Christopher S. Lynch, 2000, “Piezoelectric Hydraulic Pump Development”, Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng, 2985:  729-739.

Lisa D. Mauck and Christopher S. Lynch, 2000, “Piezohydraulic Pump Development”, Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 11(10):  758-764.

Lisa Mauck and Christopher S. Lynch, 1999 “Piezohydraulic Pump”, Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng, 3668(II):  844-852.

faculty

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has 16 full time, 6 adjunct, and 5 emeritus faculty members