Dr. Afif Gouissem

Mechanical Engineering

Assistant Professor

Qualification: Ph. D. in Mechanical engineering, University of Houston, US

  • Molecular dynamics & DFT calculations
  • Accelerated Molecular dynamics
  • Multi-scale material modeling
  • Mechanical properties of materials
  • A. Gouissem, Wu Fan, A.C.T. van Duin, P. “A reactive force-field for Zirconium and Hafnium Di-boride”, Sharma, Computational material science v70 p171-177 (2013)
  • A. Gouissem, R. Sarangi, D. Qian, P.Sharma, “Grain Boundary Sliding Constitutive Law from Atomistics”, Computational Materials Science (2015)
  • X. Yan, A. Gouissem, P. Sharma, “Atomistic insights into Li‐ion diffusion in amorphous silicon”, Mechanics of Materials (2015)
  • A Gouissem, R Sarangi, Q Deng, P Sharma Bridging time-scales: Grain boundary sliding constitutive law from atomistics Computational Materials Science 104, 200-204
  • X. Yan, A.Gouissem, P. Gudru, P. Sharma, “Elucidating the atomistic mechanisms underpinning plasticity in Li-Si nanostructures”, Physical Review Materials (2017)
  • 15FMCE122    Mechanical Engineering Materials
  • 15FMCE213    Engineering Mechanics
  • 21SMCE310    Engineering Skills (PBL)
  • 21SMCE322    Materials Science & Engineering
  • 21SMCE410    Project Planning (PBL)
  • 21SMCE413    Engineering Design: Implementation (PBL)
  • 21SMCE420    Project Implementation (PBL)