גל שמואל
Education
- 2012 - Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- 2009 - M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
- 2008 - B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Research Interests
- Smart materials;
- Dielectric and magnetorheological elastomers;
- Shape-memory alloys;
- Polycrystalline plasticity;
- Composites in finite elasticity;
- Wave propagation and elastic band-gaps;
- Wavelet analysis in solid mechanics;
Guest Appointments
- Post-doctoral scholar, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Caltech, USA (2012-2014)
- Visiting scientist, Department of Mechanical and Structural Engineering, University of Trento, Italy (2010)
Membership in Professional Societies
- SES - Society of Engineering Science
- ESNAM - European Scientific Network for Artificial Muscles
Honors and Awards
- ICME conference award for outstanding oral presentation by Ph.D. students (2012)
- Ehud Ben Amitay prize (2012)
- European EM ECW doctoral scholarship (2010)
- Paran doctoral fellowship (2010)
- Graduated with excellence (Magna cum laude), M.Sc., Ben-Gurion university (2009)
- Graduated with excellence (Summa cum laude), B.Sc., Ben-Gurion university (2008)
- Shmuel, G., Thorgeirsson, A.T., Bhattacharya, K., Wavelets analysis of microscale strains, Acta Mater., accepted, 2014
- Shmuel, G., Electrostatically tunable band gaps in finitely extensible dielectric elastomer fiber composites, Int. J. Solids Struct., 50:680-686, 2013
- Shmuel, G., deBotton, G., Axisymmetric wave propagation in finitely deformed dielectric elastomer tubes, Proc. R. Soc. A, 469, 2013
- Shmuel, G., deBotton, G., Band-gaps in electrostatically controlled dielectric laminates subjected to incremental shear motions, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 60:1970-1981, 2012
- Shmuel, G., Gei, M., deBotton, G., The Rayleigh-Lamb wave propagation in dielectric elastomer layers subjected to large deformations, Int. J. Nonlinear Mech., 47:307-316, 2012
- Shmuel, G., deBotton G., Out-of-plane shear of fiber composites at moderate stretch level, J. Eng. Math., 68:85-97, 2010
- deBotton, G., Shmuel, G., A new variational estimate for the effective response of hyperelastic composites, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 58:466-483, 2010
- deBotton, G., Shmuel, G., Mechanics of composites with two families of finitely extensible fibers undergoing large deformations, J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 57:1165-1181, 2009
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