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Wei Cai
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stanford.eduAwards
Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) 2004, NSF Career Award 2006, AFOSR Young Investigator Award (YIP) 2006, ASEE Beer & Johnston New Mechanics Educator Award 2009, ASME Hughes Young Investigator Award 2013Research Interests [group page]
Predicting mechanical strength of materials through theory and simulations of defect microstructures across atomic, mesoscopic and continuum scales. Developing new atomistic simulation methods for long time-scale processes, such as crystal growth and self-assembly. Introducing magnetic field in quantum simulations of electronic structure and transport.
Courses and Lecture Notes
ME346A Statistical Mechanics [Notes]
ME346B Molecular Simulations [Notes]
ME346C Adv Molecular Simulations [Notes]
ME340 Elasticity & Inelasticity [Notes]
ME340A Elasticity [Notes]
ME340B Micromechanics [Notes]
ME342 Inelasticity [Notes]
Free Energy Methods [Notes]
Service Editorial board MSMSE
Conferences MMM 2014
Dislocations 2008
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Selected Publications [more] [google] [orcid]
Yifan Wang, Jing Liu, Jian-Zhong Jiang and Wei Cai, "Anomalous temperature dependence of elastic limit in metallic glasses", Nature Communications, 15, 171 (2024). [DOI] (new)
Yifan Wang, Wei Cai, "Stress-dependent activation entropy in thermally activated cross-slip of dislocations", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120, e2222039120 (2023). [DOI] [arXiv] (new)
Yikai Yin, Nicolas Bertin, Yanming Wang, Zhenan Bao and Wei Cai, "Topological origin of strain induced damage of multi-network elastomers by bond breaking", Extreme Mechanics Letters, in press (2020). [arXiv] [DOI]
Wei Cai, et al. "A non-singular continuum theory of dislocations", J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 54, 561 (2006). [PDF]