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Han-Gyu Kim, Ph.D.

Han-Gyu Kim

Assistant Professor

Office: 316D Walker Engineering Building
hkim@ae.msstate.edu
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Dr. Han-Gyu Kim joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University (MSU) as an Assistant Professor in August 2021. A major thrust of his research is the development of multi-scale and multi-physics models for structural design and life prediction for hypersonic aircraft. For this long-term project, he has been collaborating with the Structural Science Center in the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base since 2014. He is currently working with the Glenn Research Center at NASA to characterize plastic damage parameters for composite structures. He is closely collaborating with the Advanced Composites Institute and Raspet Flight Research Laboratory at MSU to develop high-fidelity damage models for stitched composites and damage detection systems using unmanned aerial vehicles. Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. degree in Civil Engineering with a focus in Structural Engineering and Mechanics from the University of Washington in 2019 and then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at the university for two years. Prior to the academic career, he worked in industry for seven years. During the industry career, he had his business and technical proposals accepted for international infrastructure contracts and worked as a manager for a large-scale underground metro project in Singapore.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering and Mechanics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2019
  • M.S. in Civil Engineering (Structural Engineering and Mechanics), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2017
  • B.S. in Civil Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, 2006

Research Areas

  • Advanced composite materials
  • Aerostructures for hypersonic vehicles
  • Structural dynamics
  • Multiscale and multi-physics modeling
  • Damage progression induced by fracture and fatigue
  • Nondestructive damage evaluation
  • High-reliability low-cost rare-earth free electric motors
  • Stitched resin-infused composites
  • Structure-fluid interactions

Teaching Areas

  • Elasticity
  • Structural analysis
  • Mechanical and structural dynamics
  • Computational and numerical analysis
  • Mechanics of composite materials
  • Fracture mechanics and fatigue

Taught Courses

Undergraduate Courses

  • EM 3213 Mechanics of Materials, Fall 2021
  • EM 4133 Composite Materials, Spring 2022

Graduate Courses

  • EM 6133 Composite Materials, Spring 2022

Select Journal Publications

  • Han-Gyu Kim, Ryan Howe, Marco Salviato, and Richard Wiebe (2022). Novel method of characterizing traction and separation laws for interlaminar fracture in multi-scale composite structures using progressive digital image correlation. Composite Structures (Elsevier, Impact factor: 5.4), submitted.
  • Md Khurshedul Islam, Kazi Nishat Tasnim, Md Zakirul Islam, Han-Gyu Kim, and Seungdeog Choi (2022). Performance Comparison of Different Permanent Magnet Motors for Traction Applications. 2022 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), in print.
  • Han-Gyu Kim and Richard Wiebe (2020). Numerical investigation of stress states in buckled laminated composite plates under dynamic loading. Composite Structures (Elsevier, Impact factor: 5.1), 235, 111743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2019.111743
  • Han-Gyu Kim and Richard Wiebe (2019). Experimental and numerical investigation of nonlinear dynamics and snap-through boundaries of post-buckled laminated composite plates. Journal of Sound and Vibration (Elsevier, Impact factor: 3.4), 439, 362-387.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2018.09.056
  • Han-Gyu Kim and Richard Wiebe (2017). Experimental nonlinear dynamics and snap-through of post-buckled composite plates. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017, 1, 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54404-5_3
  • Han-Gyu Kim and Richard Wiebe (2016). Experimental nonlinear dynamics of laminated quasi-isotropic thin composite plates. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016, 1, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29739-2_4

Externally Funded Research Projects

  • Multi-scale Experimental Characterization of Non-Associative Plasticity Flow Rule Coefficients and Mixed-Mode Traction-Separation Laws for the LS-DYNA MAT213 Model, August 2022 - August 2023, Glenn Research Center, NASA