Education

Teaching

• Mechanics of Materials
• Continuum Mechanics
• Computational Mechanics

Teaching

Programs

Programs

• Engineering and Applied Science PhD
• Manufacturing
• Mechanical Engineering BS, BS/MS
• Mechanical Engineering MS

Research

Research awards

• $ 4,770 awarded by Composite Energy Technologies Inc. for 3D Print Composite Pressure Vessel with Embedded Sensors

Research

Research interests

• Composite materials
• Hierarchical materials and lightweight structures
• Random heterogeneous materials
• Inverse problems and optimization methods
• Image-based multiscale modeling

Select publications

• J. Li, K. Kwok and S. Pellegrino (2016).
  Thermoviscoelastic models for polyethylene thin films
  Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, 20, 13-43.
  
• J. Li, A. Saharan, S. Koric and M. Ostoja-Starzewski (2012).
  Elastic-plastic transition in 3D random materials: Massively parallel simulations, fractal morphogenesis and scaling functions
  Philosophical Magazine, 92, 2733-2758.
  
• J. Li and M. Ostoja-Starzewski (2009).
  Fractal solids, product measures and fractional wave equations
  Proceedings of Royal Society A, 465, 2521-2536.
  

Dr. Jun Li joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth as an assistant professor in September 2016. Before that, he worked as a R&D quality assurance manager at Dassault Systemes Simulia Corp. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories in the California Institute of Technology, working on NASA Super Pressure Balloon project. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned M.S. degrees in Mathematics and in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interest is to develop theoretical and computational methods combined with experiments for the assessment, design, optimization and manufacturing of novel materials and structures in various applications.

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