People

Franz-Josef Ulm

Franz-Josef Ulm
  • Title Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty Director, Concrete Sustainability Hub
  • Email ulm@mit.edu
  • Faculties Sustainable Materials & Infrastructure
  • Address MIT Room 1-263 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA, 02139
  • Telephone 617.253.3544
  • Research Website https://cshub.mit.edu/
  • Assistant Jeanette Marchocki / jmmarch@mit.edu

Education

  • Diplom Ingenieur (M.Sc.) 1990, TU Munich
  • Docteur-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) 1994, ENPC, Paris
  • Habilitation 1998, ENS de Cachan

Research Interests

Professor Ulm’s research interests are in the mechanics and structures of materials. His research group is looking at the nano- and micro mechanics of porous materials, such as concrete, rocks and bones; in the durability mechanics of engineering materials and structures; in computational mechanics; and in the bio-chemo-poromechanics of high-performance composite materials.

Teaching Interests

  • 1.050: Engineering Mechanics I
  • 1.033/1.57: Continuum Mechanics, Mechanics of Material Systems
  • 1.570: Durability Mechanics, Micromechanics, Poromechanics, Chemomechanics

Selected Publications

  1. Constantinides, G., and Ulm, F.-J. (2007). `The nanogranular nature of C-S-H.’ Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 55 (1), 64–90.
  2. DeJong, M.J. and Ulm, F.-J. (2007). `The nanogranular behavior of C-S-H at elevated temperatures (up to 700C)’, Cem. Concr. Res., 37 (1), 1–12.
  3. Ulm, F.-J. and Abousleiman, Y. (2006). `The nanogranular nature of shales.’ Acta Geotechnica, 1 (3), 77–88.
  4. Tai, K., Ulm, F.-J., Ortiz, C. (2006). `Nanogranular origins of the strength of bone.’ Nanoletters 6 (11), 2520–2525.