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Eric Homer

Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Website: https://microstructure.byu.edu/
Email: eric.homer@me.byu.edu

350 EB - Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602

801-422-4462

Biography

Office Hours

Fall 2024

Monday: 1pm - 2pm
Wednesday: 1pm - 2pm
Friday: 4pm - 5pm
Education and Experience
Graduate Students
Publications
Courses
Research
Education

PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010.

MS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University, 2006

BS in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University, 2006, Magna Cum Laude

Experience

2017 - present, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University

2019, Visiting Scholar, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2011 - 2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brigham Young University

2010 - 2011, Postdoctoral Appointee, Computational Materials Science & Engineering Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

Jordan C. Cox (Past MS Student)

Thomas J Hardin (Past MS Student)

Matthew B. Harris (Past MS Student)

Ricky Wyman (Past MS Student)

Stephen Cluff (Current PhD Student)

Casey Messick (Current MS Student)

Devin Adams (Current MS Student)

Adam Herron (Current MS Student)

Jonathan Priedeman (Current MS Student)

David Page (Current MS Student)

Journals Articles

  1. Rampton TM, Wright SI, Miles MP, Homer ER, Wagoner RH, Fullwood DT. Twin Detection via Tracking of Individual Kikuchi Band Intensity of EBSD Patterns, Ultramicroscopy, vol. 185, p. 5, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.11.003
  2. Rosenbrock CW, Homer ER, Csányi G, Hart GLW, Discovering the Building Blocks of Atomic Systems using Machine Learning, NPJ Computational Materials, vol. 3, p. 29, 2017. doi:10.1038/s41524-017-0027-x
  3. Zhang YB, Budai JD, Tischler JZ, Liu W, Xu R, Homer ER, Godfrey A, Juul Jensen D. Boundary migration in a 3D deformed microstructure inside an opaque sample, Scientific Reports, vol. 7, p. 4423, 2017. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04087-9
  4. Priedeman JL, Olmsted DL, Homer ER, Migration of Incoherent Facets in Twin Grain Boundaries, Acta Materialia, vol. 131, p. 553, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.04.016.
  5. Bong HJ, Lim H, Lee MG, Fullwood DT, Homer ER, Wagoner RH. An RVE Procedure for Micromechanical Prediction of Mechanical Behavior of Dual-Phase Steel. Materials Science and Engineering A, vol. 695, p. 101, 2017. doi: 10.1016/j.msea.2017.04.032
  6. Hansen L, Jackson B, Fullwood DT, Wright S, de Graef M, Homer ER, Wagoner RH, Influence of Noise Generating Factors on Cross Correlation EBSD Measurement of GNDs, Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol. 23, p. 460, 2017. doi:10.1017/S1431927617000204
  7. Wyman RD, Fullwood DT, Wagoner RH, Homer ER. Variability of Non-Schmid Effects in Grain Boundary Dislocation Nucleation Criteria, Acta Materialia, vol. 124, p. 588, 2017. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.11.005
  8. Jackson BE, Christensen JJ, Signh S, De Graef M, Fullwood DT, Homer ER, Wagoner RH. Performance of Dynamically Simulated Reference Patterns for Cross Correlation EBSD, Microscopy and Microanalysis, vol 22, p. 789, 2016. doi:10.1017/S143192761601148X
  9. Harris MB, Watts LS, Homer ER. Competition between shear band nucleation and propagation across rate-dependent flow transitions in a model metallic glass, Acta Materialia, vol 111, p. 273, 2016. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2016.03.066
  10. Homer ER, Patala S, Priedeman J. Grain Boundary Plane Orientation Fundamental Zones and Structure-Property Relationships, Scientific Reports, vol. 5, p. 15476, 2015. doi:10.1038/srep15476
  11. Hardin TJ, Ruggles TJ, Koch DP, Niezgoda SR, Fullwood DT, Homer ER. Analysis of Traction-Free Assumption in High-Resolution EBSD Measurements, Journal of Microscopy, vol. 260, p. 73, 2015. doi:10.1111/jmi.12268
  12. Hardin TJ, Homer ER. Microstructural Factors of Strain Delocalization in Model Metallic Glass Matrix Composites, Acta Materialia, vol. 83, p. 203, 2015. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2014.09.043
  13. Homer ER, Harris MB, Zirbel SA, Kolodziejska JA, Kozachkov H, Trease BP, Borgonia JPC, Agnes GS, Howell LL, Hofmann DC. New Methods for Developing and Manufacturing Compliant Mechanisms Utilizing Bulk Metallic Glass, Advanced Engineering Materials, vol. 16, p. 850, 2014. doi:10.1002/adem.201300566 (Front Cover Image: doi:10.1002/adem.201470026)
  14. Homer ER, Holm EA, Foiles SM, Olmsted DL. Trends in Grain Boundary Mobility: Frequency of new and existing mechanisms, JOM, vol. 66, p. 114, 2014. doi:10.1007/s11837-013-0801-2
  15. Homer ER. Examining the initial stages of shear localization in amorphous metals, Acta Materialia, vol. 63, p. 44, 2014. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2013.09.050
  16. Hardin TJ, Adams BL, Fullwood DT, Wagoner RH, Homer ER. Estimation of the full Nye’s tensor and its gradients by micro-mechanical stereo-inference using EBSD dislocation microscopy, International Journal of Plasticity, vol. 50, p. 146, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.ijplas.2013.04.006
  17. Li L, Homer ER, Schuh CA. Shear transformation zone dynamics model for metallic glasses incorporating free volume as a state variable, Acta Materialia, vol. 61, p. 3347, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2013.02.024
  18. Homer ER, Foiles SM, Holm EA, Olmsted DL. Phenomenology of shear coupled grain boundary motion in symmetric tilt and general grain boundaries, Acta Materialia, vol. 61, p. 1048, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2012.10.005
  19. Homer ER, Tikare V, Holm EA. Hybrid Potts-phase field model for coupled microstructural-compositional evolution, Computational Materials Science, vol. 69, p. 414, 2013. doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2012.11.056
  20. Holm EA, Foiles SM, Homer ER, Olmsted DL. Comment on “Toward realistic molecular dynamics simulations of grain boundary mobility” by Zhou and Mohles, Scripta Materialia, vol. 66, p. 714, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2011.11.046
  21. Packard CE, Franke O, Homer ER, Schuh CA. The nanoscale strength distribution in amorphous vs. crystalline metals, Journal of Materials Research, vol. 25, p. 2251, 2010. doi:10.1557/JMR.2010.0299 (Invited Feature Paper)
  22. Homer ER, Schuh CA. Three-dimensional shear transformation zone dynamics model for amorphous metals, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 18, p. 065009, 2010. doi:10.1088/0965-0393/18/6/065009
  23. Packard CE, Homer ER, Al-Aqeeli N, Schuh CA. Cyclic hardening of metallic glasses under Hertzian contacts: experiments and STZ dynamics simulations, Philosophical Magazine, vol. 90, p. 1373, 2010. doi:10.1080/14786430903352664
  24. Homer ER, Rodney D, Schuh CA. Kinetic Monte Carlo study of activated states and correlated shear-transformation-zone activity during the deformation of an amorphous metal, Physical Review B, vol. 81, p. 064204, 2010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.81.064204
  25. Homer ER, Schuh CA. Meso-scale modeling of amorphous metals by shear transformation zone dynamics, Acta Materialia, vol. 57, p. 2823, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2009.02.035
  26. Lemmon TS, Homer ER, Fromm BS, Fullwood DT, Jensen BD, Adams BL. Heterogeneous microstructure sensitive design for performance optimization of MEMS switch, JOM, vol. 59, p. 43, 2007. doi:10.1007/s11837-007-0115-3
  27. Homer ER, Adams BL, Wagoner RH. Recovering grain-boundary inclination parameters through oblique double sectioning, Metallurgical & Materials Transactions, vol. 38A, p. 1575, 2007. doi:10.1007/s11661-007-9218-2
  28. Homer ER, Adams BL, Fullwood DT. Recovery of the grain boundary character distribution through oblique double-sectioning, Scripta Materialia, vol. 54, p. 1017, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2005.11.043
  29. Basinger JA, Homer ER, Fullwood DT, Adams BL. Two dimensional grain boundary percolation in alloy 304 stainless steel, Scripta Materialia, vol. 53, p. 959, 2005. doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2005.06.026

Book Contributions

  1. Homer ER, Li L, Schuh CA. (2016) Kinetic Monte Carlo Modeling of Nanomechanics in Amorphous Systems, In Tucker G. & Weinberger C. (Eds.) Multiscale Materials Modeling for Nanomechanics, Springer. In Press. ISBN:978-3-319-33478-3

Conference Proceedings

  1. Fernelius JD, Homer ER, Nelson TW. The influence of deformation twinning on copper 220 caused by cryogenic processing. In Contributed Papers from Materials Science & Technology 2016, p. 1241. Paper presented at MS&T16, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Warrendale, PA: Materials Science & Technology, 2016.
  2. Homer ER. Investigating the mechanisms of grain boundary migration during recrystallization using molecular dynamics. Presented at the 36th Risø International Symposium on Materials Science, Roskilde: IOP Publishing, vol. 89, p. 012006, 2015. doi:10.1088/1757-899X/89/1/012006
  3. Cox JJ, Homer ER, Tikare V. Coupled microstructural-compositional evolution informed by a thermodynamic database using the hybrid Potts-phase field model. Fall 2012 MRS Proceedings. doi:10.1557/opl.2013.165
  4. Homer ER, Basinger JA, Adams BL. Variance of the grain boundary character distribution, Materials Science Forum 495-497: 871-876 Part 1&2 2005.
  5. Adams BL, Homer ER, Basinger JA. Consideration of microstructure variability in the grain boundary character distribution, in Dislocations, Plasticity and Metal Forming, ed. Khan AS, Neat Press, Maryland, p. 466-468, 2003.

ME EN 101 Static Systems in Mechanical Engineering

ME EN 250 Materials Science

ME EN 452 Intermediate Materials

ME EN 556 Materials Modeling

Capstone Coach

Materials Modeling, Grain Boundary Structure-Property Relationships, Mechanical Behavior of Polycrystalline Metals

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Materials Science & Engineering , Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010)
  • Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering , Brigham Young University (2006)
  • Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering , Brigham Young University (2006)

Courses Taught

Publications

G. Zhou W. Jeong Eric R Homer David T Fullwood M. G. Lee J. H. Kim H. Lim H. Zbib R. H. Wagoner Derrik Adams Shamoon Irfan Jeff Cramer Michael Paul Miles Eric R Homer Tyson Brown Raj K. Mishra David T Fullwood Ryan Sperry Allan Harte João Quinta da Fonseca Eric R Homer Robert H. Wagoner David T Fullwood Hunter C Erickson Eric R Homer David Frazer Jacob L Bair Eric R Homer Peter Hosemann Christian Kurniawan Sterling Baird David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Oliver Kent Johnson Landon T. Hansen David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Robert H. Wagoner Hojun Lim Jay D. Carroll Guowei Zhou Hyuk Jong Bong Jacob L Bair Eric R Homer Eric R Homer Eric R Homer Derek M. Hensley Conrad W. Rosenbrock Andrew H. Nguyen Gus L Hart Devin W. Adams David T Fullwood Robert H. Wagoner Eric R Homer Jonathan L Priedeman Conrad W Rosenbrock Oliver Kent Johnson Eric R Homer Eric R Homer Ying Chen Christopher A Schuh Lin Li Eric R Homer Jordan J Cox Eric R Homer Veena Tikare Masaki Kurata Jeff Cramer Derrick Adams Michael Paul Miles David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Tyson Brown Raj K Mishra Anil Sachdev Adam D Herron Shawn P Coleman K Q Dang D E Spearot Eric R Homer Jacob L Bair Eric R Homer Stephen Cluff David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Tracy W Nelson Rongjie Song Travis Rampton Stuart I Wright Michael Paul Miles Eric R Homer Robert H Wagoner David T Fullwood Y B Zhang J D Budai J Z Tischler W Liu R Xu Eric R Homer A Godfrey Dorte Juul Jensen Conrad W Rosenbrock Eric R Homer Gus L Hart Gábor Csányi Travis M Rampton Stuart I Wright Michael Paul Miles Eric R Homer Robert H Wagoner David T Fullwood Jonathan L Priedeman David L Olmsted Eric R Homer Hyuk Jong Bong Hojun Lim Myoung‐Gyu Lee David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Robert H Wagoner Ricky D Wyman David T Fullwood Robert H Wagoner Eric R Homer Landon Hansen Brian Jackson David T Fullwood Stuart Wright Marc de Graef Eric R Homer Robert Wagoner Matthew B Harris Lars S Watts Eric R Homer Brian E Jackson Jordan J Christensen S Signh Marc De Graef David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Robert H Wagoner Janette D Fernelius Eric R Homer Tracy W Nelson Eric R Homer Lin Li Christopher A Schuh Thomas J Hardin Timothy J Ruggles Daniel P Koch Steve R Niezgoda David T Fullwood Eric R Homer Eric R Homer Srikanth Patala Jonathan Priedeman Thomas J Hardin Eric R Homer Eric R Homer Eric R Homer M B Harris Shannon A Zirbel J A Kolodziejska H Kozachkov Brian P Trease J C Borgonia G S Agnes Larry L Howell D C Hofmann Eric R Homer Elizabeth A Holm Stephen M Foiles David L Olmsted Eric R Homer Thomas J Hardin Brent Larsen Adams David T Fullwood Robert H Wagoner Eric R Homer Lin Li Eric R Homer Christopher A Schuh Eric R Homer Veena Tikare Elizabeth A Holm Jordan J Cox Eric R Homer Veena Tikare Eric R Homer Stephen M. Foiles Elizabeth A. Holm David L. Olmsted