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Sefi (Josef) Givli

Office: 342, LD
Phone: 829-3014
Fax: 829-5711


Curriculum Vitae

Senior Lecturer

For more information visit his unofficial home page.

full CV

Education


  • 1994 - B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel
  • 2005 - Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T., Israel

Research Interests


  • Theoretical modeling of bio-mechanical systems.
  • Muscle mechanics.
  • Mechanics of multi-phase biological membranes.
  • Theoretical modeling and design of heterogeneous structures.
  • Strength and reliability of heterogeneous structures.

Guest Appointments


  • Fellow, Lester Deutsch Post-Doctoral, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech - California Institute of Technology (2006-2008)

Honors and Awards


  • Certificate of Excellence for B.Sc. achievements, President of Technion (1991, 1993, 1994)
  • Technion award for excellence in teaching as a T.A. - six times (2000-2005)
  • Wolf foundation prize (2002)
  • Gutwirth Memorial Fellowship (2003)
  • Applied Materials Ltd, scholarship (2004)
  • Technion award for excellence in teaching as a lecturer (2005).
  • Pnueli prize for PhD thesis (2006).
  • Lester Deutsch Postdoctoral fellowship (2006).


    Selected Publications
    • Altus E., Givli S., 2003, “Strength reliability of statistical heterogeneous microbeams”, Int. J. Solids Structures 40(9):2069-2083.

    • Givli S, Altus E, 2003, “Effect of modulus-strength correlation on the reliability of randomly heterogeneous beams”, Int. J. Solids Structures 40(24):6703-6722.

    • Altus E., Givli S., 2004, “Fracture Mechanics of a Randomly Heterogeneous Double Cantilever Beam”, Int. J. Fracture 130(4):743-763.

    • Altus E., Proskura A., Givli S., 2005, “A new functional Perturbation Methods for Linear Non-Homogeneous Materials”, Int. J. Solids Structures 42:1577-1595.

    • Altus E., Totry E., Givli S., 2005, “Optimized Functional Perturbation Method and Morphology Based Effective Properties of Randomly Heterogeneous Beams”, Int. J. Solids Structures 42:2345-2359.

    • Givli S., Altus E., 2006,  “Relation between Stochastic Failure Location and Strength in Brittle Materials”, J. Applied Mechanics 73:698-701.

    • Givli S, Altus E, 2006, “Improved Functional Perturbation Method for Reliability Analysis of Randomly Heterogeneous Beams”, Structural Safety 28(4): 378-391.

    • Givli S., Bhattacharya K., 2008, “A Coarse-Grained Model of the Myofibril; Overall Dynamics and the Evolution of Sarcomeres Non-Uniformities”, Journal of Mechanics of Physics and Solids.