Dr. Andrew Stershic is a Principal Member of Technical Staff in the Multiphysics Modeling & Simulation department at Sandia National Labatories in Livermore, California. Andrew’s work centers on developing and testing novel modeling techniques for computational solid mechanics. His focus areas are in damage and fracture modeling, as well as manufacturing process modeling to develop predictions of residual stress. Andrew has implemented a phase-field fracture model in Sandia’s Sierra/SM finite element code with application to brittle and ductile fracture. He has also developed a tool for mesh adaptivity for solid mechanics as a means of overcoming fatal mesh distortion in large-deformation manufacturing analyses.
Andrew received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental engineering from Duke University, where his dissertation focused on regularized failure modeling using the Thick Level Set method and discrete element method modeling of lithium-ion battery cathodes during manufacturing. He collaborated with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Tennessee, USA) and École Centrale de Nantes (Nantes, France). He earned a B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a B.A. in Economics from University of Maryland. Andrew is a licensed mechanical engineer in California (M 39266).
Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University (2016)
M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, Duke University (2015)
B.A., Economics, University of Maryland (2011)
B.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland (2011)
A complete list of publications is maintained at my Google Scholar profile.
