Research Interests

Deformation of materials, mechanical properties of materials under dynamic conditions, material strength modeling

Professional Memberships
The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)

Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2002

M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2000

B.S., Ceramic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1997

J.N. Florando, J. D. Margraf, J. F. Reus, A.T.  Anderson, R.C. McCallen, M.M. LeBlanc., J. R. Stanley,  A.M. Rubenchik,  S. S. Wu, and W. H. Lowdermilk, “Modeling the Effect of Laser Heating on the Strength and Failure of 7075-T6 Aluminum”, Materials Science and Engineering A (2015).

J. P. Escobedo, D.P.  Field, M.M. Leblanc, J.N. Florando, and D. H. Lassila, Influence of pressure on the microstructural evolution of Ta during shear deformation. Scripta Materialia, 80, 21-24. (2014).

C.Q. Chen, J.N. Florando, M.. Kumar, K. T. Ramesh, and K.J.  Hemker, Incipient deformation twinning in dynamically sheared bcc tantalum. Acta Materialia, 69, 114-125. (2014).

J.N. Florando, N. R. Barton, B. S. El-Dasher, J. M. McNaney, and M. Kumar, “Analysis of Deformation Twinning in Tantalum Single Crystals under Shock Loading Conditions”, Journal of Applied Physics, 113, 083522 (2013).

J.N. Florando, T. Jiao, S. E. Grunschel, R.J. Clifton, D. H. Lassila, L. Ferranti, R. C. Becker, R.W. Minich, and G. Bazan, “High Strain Rate Plasticity under Pressure using a Windowed Pressure-Shear Impact Experiment”, Shock Compression of Condensed Matter – 2009, edited by M. Elert, W.T. Buttler, M.D. Furnish, W.W. Anderson, and W. G. Proud, American Institute of Physics, 1195, 723-726 (2009).

J.N. Florando, M.M. LeBlanc, and D.H. Lassila, “'Multiple slip in copper single crystals deformed in compression under uniaxial stress'” Scripta Materialia, 57, 537-540 (2007).

V. V. Bulatov, M. C. Bartelt, L. L. Hsiung, M. Tang, A. Arsenlis, W. Cai, J.N. Florando, M. Hiratani, M. Rhee, G. Hommes, T. Pierce, and T. Rubia (2006) “Dislocation multi-junctions”, Nature, 440, 1174.

LeBlanc, M. M., Florando, J. N., Lassila, D. H., Schmidt, T., and Tyson III, J. (2006) “Image Correlation Applied to Single Crystal Plasticity Experiments and Comparison to Strain Gage Data”, Experimental Techniques, 30.

Florando, J. N., and Nix, W. D. (2005) " A Microbeam Bending Method for Studying Stress-Strain Relations for Metal Thin Films on Silicon Substrates." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 53, 619-638.

Uchic, M.D., Dimiduk, D.M., Florando J.N., Nix, W.D. (2004) “Sample Dimensions Influence Strength and Crystal Plasticity” Science, 305, 986.