EDUCATION

Ph.D. Stanford University, Stanford, CA

M.S.  Stanford University, Stanford, CA

S.B.   Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

EXPERIENCE

Senior Member of the Technical Staff

    Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. •Tissue Mechanics
   

2. •Shape Memory Polymers
   

3. •Rate-dependent Fracture Mechanics
   

TEACHING INTERESTS

Computational Solid Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Biomechanics

NEWS

June 2010

    Postdoc Position Available

July 9, 2009

    Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineerings

EXTENDED CV

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. 1)K Myers, B Coudrillier, BL Boyce, TD Nguyen (2010) “The inflation response of bovine sclera” Acta Biomaterialia, in press.
   

2. 2)TD Nguyen, CM Yakacki, PD Brahmbhatt, ML Chambers (2010) “Modeling the Relaxation Mechanism of Amorphous Shape Memory Polymers”, Advance Materials, in press.
   

3. 3)TD Nguyen (2010) “A Comparison of a Nonlinear and Quasilinear Viscoelastic Anisotropic Model for Fibrous Tissues” in Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Cellular, Molecular and Tissue. K Garikipati and EM Arruda, eds. Springer, 16, pp.55-65.
   

4. 4)T.D. Nguyen, J. Yeager, D.F. Bahr, D.P. Adams, N.R. Moody (2010) “Nanoindentation of Compliant Substrate Systems: Effects of Geometry and Compliance", Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 132, 021001.
   

5. 5)S Gelman, FE Cone, ME Pease, TD Nguyen, K Myers, HA Quigley (2010), “The presence and distribution of elastin in the posterior and retrobulbar regions of the mouse eye” Experimental Eye Research, 90, 210-215.
   

6. 6)TD Nguyen, BL Boyce, RE Jones,  (2008) “A Nonlinear Viscoelastic Model for the TensileBehavior of Bovine Cornea", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering,130 041020-1.
   

7. 7)BL Boyce,  JM Grazier, RE Jones,  TD Nguyen  (2008) “Full-Field Deformation of Bovine Cornea Under Constrained Inflation Conditions",  Biomaterials, 29, pp. 3896-3904.
   

8. 8)TD Nguyen, HJ Qi, F Castro, K Long, (2008) “A Thermoviscoelastic Model for Armorphous Shape Memory Polymers: Incorporating Structural and Stress Relaxation", Journal of Physics and Mechanics of Solids, 56, pp. 1730-1751. 
   

9. 9)HJ Qi, TD Nguyen, F Castro, C Yakacki, R Shandas (2008) “Finite Deformation Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Thermally Induced Shape Memory Polymers",  Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56, pp. 1730-1751.
   

10. 10) TD Nguyen, RE  Jones, BL Boyce,   (2007) “Modeling the anisotropic finite-deformation viscoelastic behavior of soft fiber-reinforced composites",  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 44, pp. 8366-8389.
    

11. 11) BL Boyce, RE  Jones, TD  Nguyen (2007) “Stress-controlled viscoelastic tensile response of bovine cornea", Journal of Biomechanics, 40, pp. 2367-2376.