Mark R. Garnich, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Room 2028, Engineering Building
University of Wyoming
College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dept. 3295
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071

Phone: 307.766.2949

Mark Garnich received a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1981 and a MS in Engineering Mechanics in 1983 from the Michigan Technological University. Mark was a research engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) from 1983 until 1993 when he enrolled with the University of Wyoming where he received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1996. He returned to PNNL for 5 years before coming back to the University of Wyoming where he has been a professor since August of 2001.

Research Interests

Mechanics of Materials: composite materials, multicontinuum theories, multi-scale analyses, numerical modeling, micromechanics.

Selected Publications

Fertig, R. and M.R. Garnich, Influence of Constituent Properties and Microstructural Parameters on the Tensile Modulus of a Polymer/Clay Nanocomposite, J. Composites Science and Technology,Vol. 64, No. 16, pp. 2577-2588, 2004.

Karami, G. and M.R. Garnich, Effective Moduli and Failure Considerations for Composites with Periodic Fiber Waviness, Composite Structures, Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 461-475, 2004.

Key, C.T., M.R. Garnich and A.C. Hansen, Progressive Failure Predictions for Rib-Stiffened Panels Based on Multicontinuum Technology, Composite Structures, Vol. 65, No. 3-4, pp. 357-366, 2004.

Garnich, M.R. and G. Karami, Finite Element Micromechanics for Stiffness and Strength of Wavy Fiber Composites, J. Composite Materials, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 273-292, 2004.

Garnich, M.R. and A.C. Hansen, A Multicontinuum Approach to Structural Analysis of Linear Viscoelastic Composite Materials, J. Applied Mechanics, Vol. 64, No. 4, pp. 795-803, 1997.

Garnich, M.R. and A.C. Hansen, A Multicontinuum Theory for Thermal-Elastic Structural Analysis of Composites, J. Composite Materials, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 71-86, 1997.