Professor Dan Balint

Summary

Dan Balint is Professor of Solid Mechanics and the Head of the Mechanics of Materials Division in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is also Associate Editor of European Journal of Mechanics / A - Solids. He has expertise in theoretical and computational solid mechanics with primary emphasis on the micromechanics of crystalline materials (metals and ceramics); dislocation and defect (e.g. solute atoms, irradiation damage, interfaces and grain boundaries) interactions and correlation to failure mechanisms and mechanical properties; discrete dislocation plasticity methods; multilayer thin film evolution and failure (e.g. thermal barrier, environmental and wear coatings); metal forming methods; fracture and deformation in metals (e.g. steel, titanium, zirconium alloys) and paints (multilayers for art conservation); material (intrinsic) size effects; hydrogen in metals; structured, cellular and auxetic materials.

Prior to joining the faculty in 2006, Prof. Balint was a research associate in the Cambridge Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University (2003-2005), where he worked on modelling size effects in polycrystalline materials using planar discrete dislocation plasticity. Prof. Balint has also worked as a consultant for many companies and industrial sectors, including US Air Force, Rolls Royce, BP, QinetiQ, Exponent, Element 6, Doncasters, Embody Orthopaedic, Ipeco, Lovells, NPL, ESI, RoboFold and GCG.

Ph.D., Engineering Sciences, Harvard University, 2003
S.M., Applied Mathematics, Harvard University, 2001
B.S., Engineering Mechanics, Michigan State University, 1998

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