Faculty and Staff John Brigham

Assistant Professor Email: brigham@pitt.edu Phone: (412) 624-9047 Fax: (412) 624-0135 Office: 936 Benedum

Education

• Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2008
• M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2006
• B.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2003

Research Interests:

Dr. Brigham’s research is focused on fundamental concepts in mechanics and computation which span a broad range of applications, from assessing service life of civil, marine, or aircraft structures to diagnosing physiological changes in biological structures. His particular interests include developing efficient computational methods for the representation of multiphysics and multiscale systems, solution strategies for inverse problems associated with nondestructive and noninvasive testing, and numerical modeling of biological systems. His recent work has focused on developing computational strategies for the solution of inverse problems, which address the challenges in both the numerical representation of complex systems and optimization approaches to inverse solutions.

Representative Publications:

• D. E. Rosario, J. C. Brigham, and W. Aquino (2008). Identification of Material Properties of Orthotropic Elastic Cylinders Immersed in Fluid Using Vibroacoustic Techniques. International Journal of Ultrasonics. In Press.
• J. C. Brigham and W. Aquino (2007). Surrogate-Model Accelerated Random Search Algorithm for Global Optimization with Applications to Inverse Material Identification. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196, 45-48, September, 4561-4576.
• J. C. Brigham, W. Aquino, F. G. Mitri, J. F. Greenleaf, and M. Fatemi (2007). Inverse Estimation of Viscoelastic Properties for Solids Immersed in Fluids using Vibroacoustic Techniques. Journal of Applied Physics, 101, 2, January, 23509-1-14.
• W. Aquino and J. C. Brigham (2006). Self-Learning Finite Elements for Inverse Estimation of Thermal Constitutive Models. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 49, 15-16, July, 2466-2478.