AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: T. I. Zohdi is currently Professor and Vice Chair for Instruction in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chair of the Engineering Science Program at UC Berkeley.
He received his Ph.D. in 1997 in Computational and Applied Mathematics from UT Austin and his Habilitation in Mechanics from the Leibniz Universitaet in Hannover, Germany in 2002.
His main research interests are in micromechanical material design, particulate flow and the mechanics of high-strength fabric, with and emphasis on computational approaches for nonconvex multiscale-multiphysics inverse problems, particularly addressing the crucial issue of how large numbers of microconstituents interact to produce macroscale aggregate behavior. He published over 85 archival refereed journal papers and four books.
In 2000, he received the Zienkiewicz Prize and the Medal, and in 2003,he received the Junior Achievement Award for the American Academy of Mechanics. He is a Fellow of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) and the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), and is currently Vice President of USACM, and will become the USACM President in 2012.

Well-structured, educational modern introduction to computational micromechanics

Mixed monograph/textbook character (clear, self- contained, educational but without exercises and examples)

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Some Basics of the Mechanics of Solid Continua.- Fundamental Weak Formulations.- Fundamental Micro-Macro Concepts.- A Basic Finite Element Implementation.- Computational/Statistical Testing Methods.- Various Extensions and Further Interpretations of Partitioning.- Domain Decomposition Analogies and Extensions.- Nonconvex-Nonderivative Genetic Material Design.- Modeling Coupled Multifield Processes.- Closing Comments.