Dr. Daniel Simkins, PhD
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Associate Professor
4202 E. Fowler Avenue
ENC 3206
Tampa, FL 33620-5350
Phone: (813) 974-4174
Fax: (813) 974-2957
E-mail: dsimkins@usf.edu

 

Education
Ph.D. Structural Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2004
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1999
M.S. Physics, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, 1986
B.S. Physics, University of Missouri at Rolla, 1984

 

Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida, Aug. 2005 to present
Post Doctoral Researcher, University of California, 2004
Software Engineer, Teknowledge Corporation, Berkeley, CA, 1996 - 1998
Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 1988 - 1996

 

Areas of Interest: Computational Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Composite Materials, Computational Engineering

 

Selected Publications

• Lisa B. Whitenack, Daniel C. Simkins, Jr., Philip J. Motta, Makoto Hiraid and Ashok Kumar, ”Young’s modulus and hardness of shark tooth biomaterials,” Archives of Oral Biology, 55(3):203-209, 2010.
• Nathan Collier, Daniel C. Simkins, Jr., “The Quasi-uniformity Condition for Reproducing Kernel Element Method Meshes,” Computational Mechanics, 44(3):333, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-009-0379-2, 2009.
• Daniel C. Simkins, Jr., Abhishek Kumar, Nathan Collier, and Lisa B. Whitenack, “Geometry representation, modification and iterative design using RKEM,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 196(2007), 4304-4320, 2007.
• Daniel C. Simkins, Shaofan Li, and Xiaohu Liu, “Meshfree Simulations of Thermal-Mechanical Dynamic Fracture,” Computational Mechanics, 38(3):235-249, 2006.
• Shaofan Li, Hongsheng Lu, Weimin Han, Wing Kam Liu, and Daniel C. Simkins, “Reproducing Kernel Element Method. Part II. Globally Conforming Im/Cn Hierarchies”, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 193:953-987, 2004.

 

Web site: http://www.eng.usf.edu/~dsimkins/