Faculty - Pedro Miguel Reis

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Pedro Miguel Reis

Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

MIT
Room 1-330
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Telephone: +1 617 3243325 e-mail: preis@mit.edu Website: http://web.mit.edu/preis/www/

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Education

  • B.Sc. in Physics, University of Manchester, UK, 1999
  • Certificate of Advanced Studies in Mathematics (Part III), University of Cambridge, UK, 2000
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Manchester, UK, 2004

Research Interests

Pedro Reis' research interests lie in the general area of deformation of thin elastic objects; including rods, plates and shells. The large displacements permissible in such configurations can give rise to non-negligible geometric nonlinearities, even if its material properties remain linear. Of interest is also the coupling of the elasticity of thin objects with other phenomena such as fracture, adhesion, fluid forces at liquid interfaces and flow. Practical examples of these mechanisms are often found in both the natural world and in technological applications.

Teaching Interests

  • 1.101 - Introduction to Civil Engineering Design
  • 18.384 - Undergraduate Seminar in Physical Applied Mathematics
  • 18.354 - Nonlinear Dynamics II: Continuum Systems

Selected Publications

  1. P.M. Reis, S. Jung, J. Aristoff and R. Stocker "How Cats Lap: Water uptake by Felis catus" Science 330 , 1231 (2010).
  2. P.M. Reis, J. Hure, S. Jung, J.W.M. Bush and C. Clanet, "Grabbing Water" Soft Matter 6, 5705 (2010).
  3. Buchak, C. Eloy and P.M. Reis, "The Clapping Book: wind-driven oscillations in a stack of elastic sheets" Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 194301 (2010).
  4. P.S. Raux, P.M. Reis, J.W.M. Bush, and C. Clanet, "Rolling ribbons" Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 044301 (2010).
  5. D. Sen, K. Novoselov, P. M. Reis and M.J. Buehler, "Tearing of graphene sheets from adhesive substrates produces tapered nanoribbons", Small 6 1108 (2010). 
  6. D. Vella, J. Bico, A. Boudadoud, B. Roman and P.M. Reis, "Delamination of thin elastic sheets adhered to an elastic substrate",  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 10901 (2009).
  7. P.M. Reis, F. Corson, A. Boudaoud and B. Roman, "Localization through surface folding in solid foams under compression", Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 045501 (2009).
  8. E. Hamm, P.M. Reis, M. LeBlanc, B. Roman, E. Certa, "Tearing as a test for mechanical characterization of thin adhesive films", Nature Materials, 96, 386 (2008). Cover Story.

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