Independent Researcher

Postdoctoral fellow

Civil Engineering

About

I am Vinh Phu Nguyen, from Hue City, Vietnam. I am a PhD graduated from the Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geoscienses, under the supervision of Prof. Lambertus Johannes Sluys (http://www.mechanics.citg.tudelft.nl/~bert/).

My PhD was about multiscale failure modelling of quasi-brittle materials like concrete using advanced discontinuous computational homogenization methods. The electronic version of my doctoral thesis can be found at http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid%3A1af168bf-7975-4044-8eb4-dd42216f7aaf/.

Before that, in the period from 2005 to 2007, with Prof. Stephane Bordas (http://www.engin.cf.ac.uk/whoswho/profile.asp?RecordNo=679), I have done some works on the Partition of Unity Finite Element Method (PUFEM) and meshless methods with applications to fracture mechanics problems.

I have spent one year in Saint Etienne (February 2006 to April 2007), France in an attempt to implement 3D PUFEM into the commercial FEM package SYSTUS of ESI company. However I had left this place before the work was finished.

I was Introduced to the field of computational mechanics by Prof. Hung Nguyen-Dang (http://www.ltas-rup.ulg.ac.be/dang/) in the EMMC master program.

Experiences in implementing continuum damage models (gradient types or nonlocal ones), cohesive crack models with interface elements and PUFEM/XFEM, multilevel FEM (FE2) methods for multiscale modelling. I also have some experiences in the Discrete Element Method (DEM) applied to cement hydration modelling. All of them has been implemented using the object-oriented C++ language. Other programming languages that I can use include Matlab, Fortran 90 and Python.

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