Gustavo Gioia

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Course Materials

• TAM 451
  

Research Pages

• Heterogeneous Deformation Modes in Elastic Foams
• Aggregation and Densification of Cohesive Granular Materials
• Folding Patterns in Compressed Thin-Film Diaphragms
• Dynamic Shear-Band Propagation in Thermoviscoplastic Solids
• Magnetization of Very Thin Ferromagnetic Films

Faint Echoes from the World at Large

• Frigid enceladus: an unlikely harbor for life (UIUC News Bureau)
• Saturn Moon's Geysers Don't Need Liquid Water? (National Geographic News)
• The Dynamics of Clathrates on Enceladus (Physics Today) [PDF 1.7 Mb]
• This Week in PNAS: Tectonics From a Frigid Enceladus [PDF 450 kb]
• Rare Volcanic Plumes Create Uncommonly Dangerous Ash Flows (American Geophysical Union)
• Research Highlight: Blowing Its Top (Nature, London) [PDF 200 kb]
• Editor's Choice: A Collapsing Umbrella (Science) [PDF 4 Mb]
• Photo in the News: Odd Eruption (National Geographic)
• Turbulence Yields Secrets to 73-Year-Old Experiment (UIUC News Bureau)
• Turbulence --The Last Mystery of Classical Physics (Softpedia)
• A Bridge to Explaining Troubled Waters (The News Gazette, Urbana-Champaign)
• Scientists Build a Bridge over Turbulent Waters (Daily News Analysis, Bombay, India) [PDF 2.2 Mb]

Students

• Pavani Akula, MS TAM, UIUC, 2007. Thesis: Dislocation Model for Low-Angle Normal Faults
  
• Stefan Gary, MS TAM, UIUC, 2006. Thesis: Residence Time of Buoyant Balls in a Hydraulic Jump (co-advised with R. Keane)
• Nathan S. Pauli, MS TAM, UIUC, 2004. Thesis: Maximal Topography of Sandpiles on Arbitrary Platforms 
• A. Leven Harrison, MS TAM, UIUC, 2004. Thesis: Free-Surface Dense Flow of Granular Materials in a Chute (co-advised with K.M. Hill)
• Moises Smart, PhD ME, Rutgers University, 2004. Thesis: Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Study of Compressed Thin-Film Diaphragms (co-advised with A.M. Cuitino of Rutgers University)
• Jae B. Park, MS TAM, UIUC, 2004. Thesis: The Origin of Self-Similar Fields in Elasto-Plastic Crack Growth
• Deepak Amaravadi, MS CEE, UIUC, 2003. Thesis: Wavy Radial Segregation Patterns in Rotated Granular Mixtures (co-advised with K.M. Hill)

• Xiangyu Dai
• Igor Khoroshilov
• Tapan Sabuwala
• Carlo C. Zuniga Zamalloa
• Tuan Tran
  

• Stephanie Ott-Monsivais
  

Graduate Student Research Projects

• Pinaki Chakraborty (TAM)
• Fabian Bombardelli (CEE)
  
• Vanessa Fullerton (AAE)

• Andrew Foss-Grant (NSF REU Program 2009, co-advised with N. Goldenfeld)
• Federico Scholcoff
  
• John Kolinski
• Perla R. Arellano Loya (NSF REU Program 2005)
• Michael C. Dameron (NSF REU Program 2005, co-advised with R. Keane)
  
• Renee Oats (NSF REU Program 2004)
• Stephanie Ott-Monsivais (co-advised with K.M. Hill)
• Cara L. Winter (co-advised with K.M. Hill)
• Vinay V. Tota (PHYS) (co-advised with K.M. Hill)
• Tomas Uribe

Research Seminars

• University of Texas at Austin, Department of Mathematics. Austin, TX, 5 December 2008
• Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Cambridge, MA, 29 October 2008
• Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ingenieria. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8 August 2008
• Rutgers University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Piscataway, NJ, 30 April 2008
• Michigan Technological University, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. Houghton, MI, 24 April 2008
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• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Fluid Mechanics Series. Urbana, IL, 28 September 2007
• Czech Technical University, Workshop Honoring Z. P. Bazant in his 70th Birthday. Prague, Czech Republic, 24 June 2007
• Center for Industrial Research, Tenaris. Campana, Argentina, 9 August 2006
  
• Washington University in St Louis, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. St Louis, MO, 20 April 2006
• Northwestern University, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Colloquia. Evanston, IL, 11 February 2005
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Urbana, IL, 3 February 2005
• Washington University in St Louis, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. St Louis, MO, 9 December 2004
  
• University of California at Davis, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering (also televised to Lawrence Livermore National Lab). Davis, CA, 2 December 2004
• University of California at Davis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Davis, CA, 30 Novermber 2004
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Urbana, IL, 2 September 2004
• University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Austin, TX, 31 August 2004
• University of Texas at Austin, Department of Physics. Austin, TX, 30 August 2004
• Brown University, Division of Engineering. Providence, RI, 5 May 2004
• MIT, Mechanics Colloquia. Cambridge, MA, 3 May 2004
• Rutgers University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Piscataway, NJ, 24 March 2004
• Ford Research Laboratory, Safety R&D Group. Dearborn, MI, 15 March 2002
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Urbana, IL, 3 May 1999
  
• Michigan State University, Department of Materials Science and Mechanics. East Lansing, MI, 13 October 1997
• Artistotle University of Thessaloniki, Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials. Thessaloniki, Greece, 3 September 1997
• University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Philadelphia, PA, 24 February 1997
• Rutgers University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Piscataway, NJ, 26 November 1996
• University of Minnesota, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. Minneapolis, MN, 16 September 1996
  
• Center for Industrial Research, FUDETEC. Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15 October 1993

Sponsored Research

• Statistical Mechanics of Turbulence, NSF DMR (co-PIs: Nigel Goldenfeld and Walter Goldburg, University of Pittsburgh)
• The Relation Between Similarity Fields and Invariant Path Integrals in Nonlinear Fracture Mechanics, NSF CMS
  
• Foam Models for Occupant-Seat Interaction Engineering, NSF CMS Career
• Experimental, Theoretical, and Computational Study of Compressed Thin-Film Diaphragms, NSF CMS (co-PI: Alberto M. Cuitino, Rutgers University)
  
• Mechanics of Cohesive Powder Compaction, UIUC Research Board
• Segregation in Granular Materials--an Effort Integrating Theory, Computation, and Experimentation, UIUC Critical Research Initiatives Program (co-PIs: H. Aref, P.V. Braun, E. Fried, M. Garcia, J.A. Lewis, L.J. Struble, C.F. Zukoski)

Resources

• Laboratory for the Mechanics of Foams

Publications

Refereed Publications

Tuan, T., Chakraborty, P., Gioia, G., Steers, S., and Goldburg, W.
Marangoni shocks in unobstructed soap-film flows
Phys. Rev. Lett., in press, 2009.

Chakraborty, P., Gioia, G., and Kieffer, S.W.
Volcanic Mesocyclones
Nature 458, 497-500, 2009.

Gioia, G., Chakraborty, P., Marshak, S., and Kieffer, S.W.
Unified Model of Tectonics and Heat Transport in a Frigid Enceladus
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA (PNAS) 104, 13578-13581, 2007.
(This paper was featured in
Physics Today: The Dynamics of Clathrates on Enceladus [PDF 1.7 Mb] and
This Week in PNAS: Tectonics From a Frigid Enceladus [PDF 450 kb])
[PDF 915 kb]

Pauli, N.S., and Gioia, G.
The Topography of Steady Sandpiles on Arbitrary Domains
Proc. Royal Soc. London A 463, 1247-1258, 2007.
[PDF 310 kb]

Gioia, G., and Chakraborty, P.
Turbulent Friction in Rough Pipes and the Energy Spectrum of the Phenomenological Theory
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 044502, 2006.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 310 kb]

Gioia, G., Ott-Monsivais, S., and Hill, K.M.
Fluctuating Velocity and Momentum Transfer in Dense Granular Flow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 138001, 2006.
[PDF 430 kb]

Gioia, G., Chakraborty, P., and Kieffer, S.W.
Lava Channels Via the Viscoplastic Indentation of Hot Substrates
Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L19305, 2006.
[PDF 920 kb]

Chakraborty, P., Gioia, G., and Kieffer, S.W.
Volcán Reventador's Unusual Umbrella
Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L05313, 2006.
(This paper was featured in
Research Highlight: Blowing Its Top, Nature 440, 386, 2006 [PDF 200 kb] and
Editor's Choice: Collapsing Umbrella, Science 311, 1675, 2006 [PDF 4 Mb])
[PDF 2.3 Mb]

Bombardelli, F.A., and Gioia, G.
The Scouring of Granular beds by Jet-Driven Axisymmetric Turbulent Cauldrons
Phys. Fluids. 18, 088101, 2006.
[PDF 80 kb]

Gioia, G., Chakraborty, P., and Bombardelli, F.A.
Rough-Pipe Flows and the Existence of Fully Developed Turbulence
Phys. Fluids. 18, 038107, 2006.
[PDF 80 kb]

Gioia, G., and Dai, X.
Surface Stress and Reversing Size Effect in the Initial Yielding of Ultrathin Films
J. Applied Mech. 73, 254-258, 2006.
[PDF 140 kb]

Gioia, G., and Bombardelli, F.A.
Localized Turbulent Flows on Scouring Granular Beds
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95,  014501, 2005.
[PDF 100 kb]

Bombardelli, F.A., and Gioia, G.
Towards a Theoretical Model of Localized Turbulent Scouring
River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics, vol. 2, 931-936
Parker and Garcia (eds.) (Taylor and Francis, London, 2005).
[PDF 440 kb]

Hill, K.M., Gioia, G., Amaravadi, D., and Winter, C. L.
Moon Patterns, Sun Patterns, and Wave Breaking in Rotating Granular Mixtures
Complexity 10,  79-86, 2005.
[PDF 490 kb]

Hill, K.M., Gioia, G., and Amaravadi, D.
Radial Segregation Patterns in Rotating Granular Mixtures: Waviness Selection
Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 224301, 2004.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 280 kb]

Hill, K.M., Gioia, G., and Tota, V.V.
Structure and Kinematics in Dense Free-Surface Granular Flow
Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 064302, 2003.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 450 kb]

Gioia, G., DeSimone, A., Ortiz, M., and Cuitiño, A.M.
Folding Energetics in Thin-Film Diaphragms
Proc. Royal Soc. London A 458, 1223-1229, 2002.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 700 kb]

Gioia, G., Cuitiño, A.M., Zheng, S., and Uribe, T.
Two-Phase Densification of Cohesive Granular Aggregates
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88,  204302, 2002.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 2.9 Mb]

Gioia, G., and Bombardelli, F.A.
Scaling and Similarity in Rough Channel Flows
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88 , 014501, 2002.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 79 kb]

Gioia, G., Wang, Y., and Cuitiño, A.M.
The Energetics of Heterogeneous Deformation in Open-Cell Solid Foams
Proc. Royal Soc. London A 457 , 1079-1096, 2001.
[PDF 1.1 Mb]

Wang, Y., Gioia, G., and Cuitiño, A.M.
The Deformation Habits of Compressed Open-Cell Solid Foams
J. Engrg. Mater. Technol. 122, 376-380, 2000.
[PDF 180 kb]

Gioia, G., and Ortiz, M.
Thin-Film Debonding Parameters from Telephone-Cord Measurements
Acta Mater. 46, 169-175, 1998.
[PDF 480 kb]

Gioia, G., and James, R.D.
Micromagnetics of Very Thin Films
Proc. Royal Soc. London A 453 , 213-223, 1997.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 340 kb]

Gioia, G., and Ortiz, M.
Delamination of Compressed Thin Films
Adv. Appl. Mech. 33, 119-192, 1997.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 6.4 Mb]

Gioia, G., and Ortiz, M.
The Two-Dimensional Structure of Dynamic Boundary Layers and Shear Bands in Thermoviscoplastic Solids
J. Mech. Phys. Solids 44, 251-292, 1996.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 2.9 Mb]

Ortiz, M., and Gioia, G.
The Morphology and Folding Patterns of Buckling-Driven Thin-Film Blisters
J. Mech. Phys. Solids 42, 531-559, 1994.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 4.9 Mb]

Gioia, G., Bazant , Z.P., and Pohl, B.P.
Is No-tension Dam Design Always Safe? -A Numerical Study
Dam Engrg. 3, 23-34, 1992. (Also see closure to discussion: ibidem 4, 59, 1993.)

Dvorkin, E.N., Cuitiño, A.M., and Gioia, G.
Finite Elements With Displacement-Interpolated Embedded Localization Lines Insensitive to Mesh Size and Distortion
Int. J. Num. Meth. Engrg. 30 , 541-564, 1990.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 4 Mb]

Dvorkin, E.N., Celentano, D., Cuitiño, A.M., and Gioia, G.
A Vlasov Beam Element
Comput. & Struct. 33, 187-196, 1989.
[Google Scholar entry]
[PDF 580 kb]

Dvorkin, E.N., Cuitiño, A.M., and Gioia, G.
A Concrete Material Model Based on Non-Associated Plasticity and Fracture Mechanics
Engrg. Comp. 6 , 281-294, 1989.
 

Publications in Other Journals With Referee

Cuitiño, A.M., Gioia, G., and Dvorkin, E.N.
A Concrete Model Based on Non-Associated Plasticity and Fracture Mechanics (in Spanish)
Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Diseño y Cálculo en Ingeniería 6, 159-173, Barcelona, Spain, 1990.

Dvorkin, E.N., Assanelli, A.P., Cuitiño, A.M., and Gioia, G.
Finite Elements in Plasticity, Viscoplasticity, and Fracture Mechanics: Some New Developments (in Spanish)
Mecánica Computacional 9 , 153-176, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1990. 

Fernández Long, H., Cuitiño, A.M., and Gioia, G.
Large Roofing Structures Based on Lightweight Concrete Sandwiches: Experiments and Theory (in Spanish)
Anales de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 38, 165-213, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1986.
 

Dissertations

Shear Bands in Metals and Delamination of Compressed Thin Films Via Boundary Layer Methods
PhD Thesis, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1996.

Is No-Tension Dam Design Always Safe? -A Comparison With Fracture Mechanics Analysis
Master Thesis, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1994.

Recent TAM Reports

Oats, R., Dai, X., Khoroshilov, I. A., and Gioia, G.
Punching Elastic Foams in The Self-Similar Regime
Final Reports: Mechanics of Complex Materials /Summer 2004
UILU-ENG-2004-6017, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 51-59, 2004.

Ott-Monsivais, S., Hill, K.M., and Gioia, G.
Structure and Velocity Correlations in Dense Free-Surface Granular Flow
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in Mechanics
UILU-ENG-2004-6002, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13-23, 2004.

Winter, C.L., Hill, K.M., and Gioia, G.
The Characteristics and Evolution of Striped Patterns in Rotated Granular Mixtures
Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference in Mechanics
UILU-ENG-2004-6002, University of Illiniois at Urbana-Champaign, 35-43, 2004.

 
 
 

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