BIO SKETCH: Karma Yonten is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Glenn Civil Engineering Department at Clemson University.

He received his B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from Westmont College in 2000, M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Geomechanics) from The George Washington University at Washington, DC in 2003 and 2011. His research interests are: advanced constitutive modeling; multi-physics, multi-scale modeling and simulation; meshfree/particle, finite element, discrete element, and XFEM methods; verification, validation and uncertainty quantification of simulation models, and; high performance computation. EDUCATION: Ph.D., The George Washington University, 2011, Civil & Environmental Engineering (Geomechanics) M.S., The George Washington University, 2003, Civil & Environmental Engineering B.S., Westmont College, 2000, Engineering Physics CURRENT RESEARCH: His current research is on coupling, experiment-based validation and uncertainty quantification (VU) of multiscale/multi-physics simulations. The ultimate goal is to access and improve the predictive capability of simulation models by reducing the uncertainties and biases in the predictions through intelligent design of experiments for calibration and validation activities, and enhancement of the underlying physics of the models (code development effort). Experiments conducted at different settings carry different amount of information (defined as a measure of uncertainty), the information gain (i.e. reduction in uncertainty) from which can elucidate the predictive maturity of the model. The objective then is to cost-effectively select experiments such that maximum information is gained from the new experiments. To quantify and track the information gain as new experiments are selected and augmented to the previous ones, entropy-based measure is employed. Figures 1 and 2 show the information gain with increased number of experiments for model parameters and prediction, respectively. On the other hand, the biases between the model predictions and observations can be reduced by incorporating first principle physics. For this

Figure 1. Entropy (uncertainty) reduction and information gain of the calibration parameters (1, 2, 3).

Figure 2. Various divergence (relative entropy) and information gain measures for the model prediction.

purpose, the physics of the existing mesoscale code developed for simulation of the behavior of core reactor clad and duct components under thermal creep and irradiation will be improved by coupling it with atomistic scale simulations to obtain information of the microstructure and its evolution of the configurations and diffusivity of vacancies, interstitials, dislocation-loop and dislocation-bubble interactions. Then the VU activities will be carried out to investigate the improvement of the predictive capability of the multi-scale code. PUBLICATIONS: 1. Manzari, M.T., Yonten, K., 2011. Comparison of Two Integration Schemes for a Micropolar Plasticity Model. Computational Methods in Civil Engineering 2(1), 21-42. 2. Manzari, M.T., Yonten, K., 2011. Analysis of Post-Failure Response of Sands using a Critical State Micropolar Plasticity Model. Interaction and Multiscale Mechanics 4(3), 187-206. 3. Manzari, M.T., Yonten, K., 2011. A Two-Scale Micropolar Critical State Plasticity Model for Granular Soils. Part I: Theory and Formulation. International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (In review). 4. Yonten, K., Manzari, M.T., 2011. A Two-Scale Micropolar Critical State Plasticity Model for Granular Soils. Part I: Implementation and Validation. International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics (In review). 5. Manzari, M.T., Yonten, K., 2011. On Implementation and Validation of an Anisotropic Constitutive Model for Cohesive Soils. Computers and Geotechnics (In review). 6. Yonten, K., Manzari, M.T., Marzougui D., Eskandarian, A., 2005. An Assessment of Constitutive Models of Concrete in the Crashworthiness Simulation of Roadside Safety Structures. International Journal of Crashworthiness 10(1), 5-19. AWARDS: Sigma Xi (GW Chapter) Student Research Award, May 2007.