Aerospace Faculty Profile :

Dr. Sung Lee
Professor
Room 3174 Martin Hall
swlee@umd.edu
Phone: 301-405-1128
Research in structural mechanics, finite element analysis, and composite structures

Education
B.S.,  Seoul National University (Aeronautical Engineering)
M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautical and Astro Engineering)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Aeronautical and Astro Engineering)


Publications
Kwon, S.W., Smith, W.L. and Lee, S.W. 'Thermo-Viscoplastic Modeling of Composites Exposed to Fire or High Temperature,' Journal of Composite Materials, 2005.

Park, H., Lee, K., Kim, K and Lee, S. W., ‘Dynamic Analysis of Nonlinear Composite Structures under Pressure Wave Loading’, Journal of Composite Materials, 2005

Lee, K. and Lee, S. W., ‘Analysis of Space and Near-Space Structures using Assumed Solid Shell Finite Elements’, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2005

Kim, J.H., Kim, Y.H. and Lee, S.W., ‘Asymptotic Postbuckling Analysis of Composite and Sandwich Structures via the Assumed Strain Solid Shell Element Formulation,’ Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, Vol. 6, no. 3, pp.263-276, 2004.

Kim, J.H., Kim, Y.H. and Lee, S.W., ‘An Assumed Strain Triangular Solid Element for Efficient Analysis of Plates and Shells with Finite Rotation,’ Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 141-152, 2004.

Kyung-Su Kim, Sung-Chan Kim, Chun-Sik Shim, Hyung-Min Cho, Sung W. Lee, ‘A Study of Overload Effects on Fatigue Crack Propagation under Cyclic Loading Using ESPI System,146; Key Engineering Materials, vol. 270-273, pp. 709-714, 2004.

Lee, K., Cho, C. and Lee, S.W., ‘An Assumed Strain Nine-Node Solid Shell Element with Improved Performance,’ Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science, vol. 2, no. 3, pp.339-349, June 2002.
Lee, K. and Lee, S.W., ‘A Post-Processing Approach to Determine Transverse Stresses in Geometrically Nonlinear Composite and Sandwich Structures,’ Journal of Composite Materials, vol. 37, no. 24, pp.2207-2224, 2003.

Park, H.C. and Lee, S.W., ‘Cure Simulation of Thick Composite Structures Using the Finite Element Method,’ Journal of Composite Materials, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 188-201, Jan. 2001.

Hong, W., Kim, Y.H. and Lee, S.W., 'Assumed Strain Triangular Solid Shell Elements with Bubble Function Displacements for Analysis of Plates and Shells,' International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 455-469, 2001.

Hong, W., Kim, Y.H. and Lee, S.W., ‘An Assumed Strain Triangular Curved Solid Shell Element Formulation for Analysis of Plates and Shells undergoing Finite Rotation’, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol.52, no. 7, pp.747-761, 2001

Kim, J.H., Kim, Y.H. and S.W. Lee, ‘An Assumed Strain Formulation of Efficient Solid Triangular Element for General Shell Analysis,’ International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 47, no. 8, pp. 1481-1497, March 2000.

Hao, B., Cho, C. and Lee, S.W., Buckling and Postbuckling of Soft-Core Sandwich Plates with Composite Facesheets,’ Computational Mechanics, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 421-429, 2000.

Articles in conference proceedings
Lee, K. and Lee, S. W., "Two-surface damage model for ceramic layers in composite panels under blast wave pressure loading", Mechanics and Materials Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, June 1-3, 2005

Lee, K. and Lee, S. W., "Structural analysis of a scientific balloons using assumed strain formulation solid shell finite elements", 46th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference, Austin, Texas, April 18-21, 2005

Lee, K. and Lee, S. W., ‘Analysis of Space and Near-Space Structures using Assumed Solid Shell Finite Elements’, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 2005

Presentations
Lee, K.J., Ng, S. and Lee, S.W., “Micromechanical Modeling of SBCF Lamina”, ARL SBCF Review Meeting, State College, PA, Dec 8, 2005.

Smith, W.L., Kwon, S.W. Lee, S.W., “Constitutive Modeling of Marine Composites at Elevated Temperatures”, ONR CIF Workshop, Newcastle, UK, Sept 13-14, 2005

Kwon, S.W., Kim J. and Lee, S.W., “Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Fire-Exposed Composite Structures”, ONR CIF Workshop, Anteon Corp, Arlington, VA, Mar 16-17, 2005.

Institutional and Professional Services
President, Korean -American Scientists and Engineers Association (July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2005)
Associate Editor, Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, (January 2003- Present )
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Computational Mechanics, an international journal, June 1986-2000.
Member, Editorial Board, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (July 2000-2002)
Member, Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science, Anaheim, CA, August 2000
Vice President, Korea-American Scientists and Engineers Association (July 1, 2002-June 30, 2003)
President-Elect, Korea-American Scientists and Engineers Association (July 1, 2003–June 30, 2004)
Co-organizer and host, Workshop on Composite Materials for Marine Structures, The Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD, May 7-9, 2001.
Co-organizer and host, Workshop on Composites for Marine Structures, College Park, MD, May 6-8, 2002.
Member, Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science, Reno, NV, July 31-August 2, 2002.
Organizer, Mini-symposium on Advanced Air Transportation, UKC-2000, Chicago, IL, September 2000


Professional and Developmental Activitites

General Chair, US-Korea Conference on Science, Technology and Entrepreneurship, Research Triangle Park, NC, August 12-14, 2004.

Member, International Organizing Committee, International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering Science, Madeira, Portugal, July 26-29, 2004

Co-organizer and host, Workshop on Composites for Marine Structures, March, 2004.

Co-organizer and host, Workshop on Composites for Marine Structures, May 6-8, 2002.

Co-organizer and host, Workshop on Composite Materials for Marine Structures, College Park, MD, May 7-9, 2001.

Member, Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Engineering Science '2000 (ICES'2K), UCLA Los Angeles, CA, August 21-25, 2000.

Honors and Awards
Received T.H.H. Pian Medal for contributions to shell element modeling in computational mechanics at a ceremony held during ICCES’04 conference (July 26-29, 2004, Madeira Island, Portugal).

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