Raymond Markowitz Faculty Fellow |
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December 17, 2013, Volume 60, No. 17
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Pedro Ponte Castañeda has been named the Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow.
Dr. Ponte joined Penn Engineering in 1986 in the department of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics after starting his career at Johns Hopkins University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Lehigh University in 1982 and a master’s degree in 1983 and a doctoral degree in 1986, both from Harvard.
Dr. Ponte is a member of the Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter and the Penn Center for Energy Innovation.
Dr. Ponte’s research is in the areas of nonlinear composite materials, microstructure evolution and localization in manufacturing processes, low-symmetry polycrystals and thermoplastic elastomers. In the area of nonlinear composite materials, Dr. Ponte addresses nonlinear constitutive and kinematical effects as observed in low-temperature plasticity and high-temperature creep of metal-matrix composites, as well as in the large-deformation behavior of black-filled and porous elastomers. In microstructure evolution and localization in manufacturing processes, his lab is concerned with the theoretical development of constitutive models for porous materials, accounting for the evolution of the microstructure, which will be useful in assessing the effect of porosity on localization. In 2007, Dr. Ponte was awarded the School’s prestigious Heilmeier Award for Excellence in Faculty Research.
The Raymond S. Markowitz Faculty Fellow was established by Amy Markowitz Stavis, W’84, and Robert M. Stavis, EAS’84, W’84, in tribute to Mrs. Stavis’s father, Raymond S. Markowitz.
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