Christian Linder
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bio
Christian Linder is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a research focus on the development of advanced computational methods and mathematical frameworks to predict the mechanical response of new materials. Relying on a detailed representation of the actual material microstructure, his models allow to understand microscopic mechanisms in biological materials and subsequently mimic and adapt those to new man-made sustainable materials with unprecedented mechanical properties used in large-scale Civil and Environmental Engineering applications. He is particularly interested in soft matter materials such as elastomers, nonwoven fabrics, hydrogels, or cellular foams and his numerical methods range from macroscopic continuum based finite element simulations to highly parallelized nanoscale electronic structure calculations.
As a Fulbright scholar Dr. Linder received his Ph.D. in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Civil Engineering from the Technical University of Graz, an M.Sc. in Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures from the University of Stuttgart, and an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Stanford in 2013 he was an Assistant Professor of Micromechanics of Materials within the Applied Mechanics Institute of Stuttgart University where he also received his Habilitation in Mechanics.
Academic Appointments
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Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Member, Bio-X
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Member, Stanford Neurosciences Institute
Honors & Awards
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2016 NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2016)
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Richard-von-Mises Prize, International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (2013)
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Haythornthwaite Research Initiation Award, ASME Applied Mechanics Division. (2013)
Professional Education
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PhD, UC Berkeley (2007)
2015-16 Courses
- Computational Micromechanics
CEE 292 (Spr) - Mechanics of Materials
CEE 101A (Win) - Solid Mechanics
CEE 291 (Aut) -
Independent Studies (9)
- Advanced Engineering Problems
CEE 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Project in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 299L (Aut, Win) - Independent Project in Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 299S (Aut) - Independent Study in Civil Engineering for CEE-MS Students
CEE 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Ph.D. Research
CME 400 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Report on Civil Engineering Training
CEE 398 (Sum) - Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 200A (Aut) - Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 200B (Win) - Teaching of Civil and Environmental Engineering
CEE 200C (Spr)
- Advanced Engineering Problems
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Prior Year Courses
2014-15 Courses
- Computational Fracture Mechanics
CEE 306 (Spr) - Mechanics of Materials
CEE 101A (Win) - Solid Mechanics
CEE 291 (Aut)
2013-14 Courses
- Computational Micromechanics
CEE 292 (Spr) - Mechanics of Materials
CEE 101A (Win) - Solid Mechanics
CEE 291 (Aut)
2012-13 Courses
- Computational Micromechanics
CEE 292 (Spr)
- Computational Fracture Mechanics
Stanford Advisees
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Postdoctoral Faculty Sponsor
Lihua Jin -
Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Jinhyun Choo
All Publications
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Computational aspects of growth-induced instabilities through eigenvalue analysis
COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
2015; 56 (3): 405-420
View details for DOI 10.1007/s00466-015-1178-6
View details for Web of Science ID 000359381500002
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All-electron Kohn-Sham density functional theory on hierarchic finite element spaces
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS
2013; 250: 644-664
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jcp.2013.04.020
View details for Web of Science ID 000321433800032
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Effect of electric displacement saturation on the hysteretic behavior of ferroelectric ceramics and the initiation and propagation of cracks in piezoelectric ceramics
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
2012; 60 (5): 882-903
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jmps.2012.01.012
View details for Web of Science ID 000302444000005
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The maximal advance path constraint for the homogenization of materials with random network microstructure
PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE
2012; 92 (22): 2779-2808
View details for DOI 10.1080/14786435.2012.675090
View details for Web of Science ID 000307448400005
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A micromechanically motivated diffusion-based transient network model and its incorporation into finite rubber viscoelasticity
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
2011; 59 (10): 2134-2156
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.05.005
View details for Web of Science ID 000295549500011
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Finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities for the modeling of failure in solids
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
2007; 72 (12): 1391-1433
View details for DOI 10.1002/nme.2042
View details for Web of Science ID 000251949400002
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A micromechanical model with strong discontinuities for failure in nonwovens at finite deformations
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
2015; 75-76: 247-259
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2015.08.018
View details for Web of Science ID 000363079800020
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The reduced basis method in all-electron calculations with finite elements
ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL MATHEMATICS
2015; 41 (5): 1035-1047
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10444-014-9374-z
View details for Web of Science ID 000365740300005
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A Complex Variable Solution Based Analysis of Electric Displacement Saturation for a Cracked Piezoelectric Material
JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME
2014; 81 (9)
View details for DOI 10.1115/1.4027834
View details for Web of Science ID 000355556000006
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Three-dimensional finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities to model failure in electromechanical coupled materials
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
2014; 273: 143-160
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cma.2014.01.021
View details for Web of Science ID 000334088900008
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A homogenization approach for nonwoven materials based on fiber undulations and reorientation
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
2014; 65: 12-34
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jmps.2013.12.011
View details for Web of Science ID 000334132300002
- A homogenization approach for nonwoven materials based on fiber undulations and reorientation Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. Accepted for publication 2014
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A marching cubes based failure surface propagation concept for three-dimensional finite elements with non-planar embedded strong discontinuities of higher-order kinematics
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING
2013; 96 (6): 339-372
View details for DOI 10.1002/nme.4546
View details for Web of Science ID 000325687400001
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A strong discontinuity approach on multiple levels to model solids at failure
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
2013; 253: 558-583
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cma.2012.07.005
View details for Web of Science ID 000313134600037
- 3D finite elements to model electromechanical coupled solids at failure. 2013
- Modeling reorientation phenomena in nonwoven materials with random fiber network microstructure. 2013
- An analysis of the exponential electric displacement saturation model in fracturing piezoelectric ceramics. Technische Mechanik. 2012; 32: 53-69
- Homogenization of random elastic networks with non-affine kinematics. 2012
- New three-dimensional finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities to model solids at failure. 2012
- Modeling quasi-static crack growth with the embedded finite element method on multiple levels. 2012
- All-electron calculations with finite elements. 2012
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New finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities for the modeling of failure in electromechanical coupled solids
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
2011; 200 (1-4): 141-161
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cma.2010.07.021
View details for Web of Science ID 000285815300011
- A strong discontinuity based adaptive refinement approach for the modeling of crack branching. 2011
- Microstructural driven computational modeling of polymers. 2011
- Finite element solution of the Kohn-Sham equations. 2011
- Modeling crack micro-branching using finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities. 2010
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Numerical simulation of dynamic fracture using finite elements with embedded discontinuities
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FRACTURE
2009; 160 (2): 119-141
View details for DOI 10.1007/s10704-009-9413-9
View details for Web of Science ID 000271749500002
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Finite elements with embedded branching
FINITE ELEMENTS IN ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
2009; 45 (4): 280-293
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.finel.2008.10.012
View details for Web of Science ID 000263792100006
- Numerical modeling of dynamic fracture. 2009
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New finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities in the finite deformation range
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
2008; 197 (33-40): 3138-3170
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.cma.2008.02.021
View details for Web of Science ID 000257666400030
- Numerical simulation of dynamic fracture using finite elements with embedded discontinuities. Report No. UCB/SEMM-2008/01, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2008
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On configurational compatibility and multiscale energy momentum tensors
JOURNAL OF THE MECHANICS AND PHYSICS OF SOLIDS
2007; 55 (5): 980-1000
View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jmps.2006.11.002
View details for Web of Science ID 000246942500005
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Recent developments in the formulation of finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities
IUTAM SYMPOSIUM ON DISCRETIZATION METHODS FOR EVOLVING DISCONTINUITIES
2007; 5: 105-122
View details for Web of Science ID 000251312200006
- New finite elements with embedded strong discontinuities for the modeling of failure in solids. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2007
- Application of differential topology for the derivation of compatibility conservation laws in mechanics. M.A. Thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of California 2006
- Finite elements with strong discontinuities. Qualifying Report, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 2005
- Analogy model for the axisymmetric elastic edge bending problem in shells of revolution based on Geckeler’s approximation. 2004
- An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element formulation for dynamics and finite strain plasticity models. M.Sc. Thesis, Computational Mechanics of Materials and Structures, University of Stuttgart. 2003
- Elastic stress analysis of axisymmetric discontinuities in shells of revolution by an effective ring analogy model. 2003