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• Tunable viscoelasticity in phase-separated soft materials
  G. Lee, H. Cho†
  arXiv, 2025

• Mechanical anisotropy of 3D-printed digital materials at large strains
  S. H. Lee, G. Lee, S. Yun, H. Cho†
  arXiv, 2025

• Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification for modeling of body-centered-cubic single crystals
  S. Lee, T. Ngyuen, D. J. Luscher, S. J. Fensin, J. S. Carpenter, H. Cho†
  arXiv, 2025

• Stiffness, strength, energy dissipation and reusability in heterogeneous architected polycrystals
  S. H. Lee, H. Cho†
  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 481, 2324, 2025 [doi][Cover][KAIST ME News]

• Extreme resilience and dissipation in heterogeneous disordered materials
  J. Moon, G. Lee, J. Lee, H. Cho†
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 204, 2025 [doi][KAIST ME News]

• Size-dependent fracture in elastomers: Experiments and continuum modeling
  J. Lee, J. U. Lee, S. Yun, H. Lee, H. Cho†
  Physical Review Materials, 8 (11), 2024 [doi][Editors' Suggestion][gitHub]

• Large strain micromechanics of thermoplastic elastomers with random microstructures
  H. Cho†, J. Lee, J. Moon, E. Pöselt, G. C. Rutledge, M. C. Boyce
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 187, 2024 [doi][KAIST Engineering News]

• Extreme resilience and dissipation in heterogeneous elasto-plastomeric crystals
  G. Lee, J. Lee, S. Lee, S. Rudykh, H. Cho†
  Soft Matter, 20 (2), 2024 [doi][BackCover][KAIST AE Highlight]

• Data-driven statistical reduced-order modeling and quantification of polycrystal mechanics leading to porosity-based ductile damage
  Y. Zhang, N. Chen†, C. A. Bronkhorst, H. Cho, R. Argus
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 179, 2023 [doi]

• Finite element implementation of a gradient-damage theory for fracture in elastomeric materials
  J. Lee, S. Lee, S. A. Chester, H. Cho†
  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 279, 2023 [doi][gitHub]

• A polyurethane-urea elastomer at low to extreme strain rates
  J. Lee, D. Veysset, A. J. Hsieh, H. Cho†
  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 280, 2023 [doi][KAIST AE Highlight]

• Deformation, dislocation evolution, slip instability and the non-Schmid behavior in body-centered-cubic single- and polycrystalline tantalum
  S. Lee, H. Cho†, C. A. Bronkhorst, R. Pokharel, D. W. Brown, B. Clausen, S. C. Vogel, V. Anghel, G. T. Gray III, J. R. Mayeur
  International Journal of Plasticity, 163, 2023 [doi][KAIST News][Most Popular Article since 2023]

• Local micro-mechanical stress conditions leading to pore nucleation during dynamic loading
  C. A. Bronkhorst†, H. Cho†, P. W. Marcy, S. A. Vander Wiel, D. Versino, S. Gupta, V. Livescu, G. T. Gray III
  International Journal of Plasticity, 137, 2021 [doi]

• Local stress and damage response of polycrystalline materials to light shock loading conditions via soft scale-coupling
  C. A. Bronkhorst†, P. W. Marcy, S. A. Vander Wiel, H. Cho, V. Livescu, G. T. Gray III
  Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME), 2020 [doi]

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• Slip transmission of high angle grain boundaries in bcc metals: Micropillar compression of tantalum single and bi-crystals
  J. S. Weaver†, N. Li, N. A. Mara, H. Cho, C. A. Bronkhorst, S. J. Fensin, G. T. Gray III
  Acta Materialia, 156, 2019 [doi]

• Anomalous plasticity of body-centered-cubic crystalline metals with non-Schmid effect
  H. Cho†, C. A. Bronkhorst†, H. M. Mourad, J. R. Mayeur, D. J. Luscher
  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 139, 2018 [doi]

• Deformation mechanisms of thermoplastic elastomers: stress-strain behavior and constitutive modeling
  H. Cho†, S. Meyer, E. Pöselt, M. Susoff, G. C. Rutledge†, M. C. Boyce†
  Polymer, 128, 2017 [doi]

• Engineering the mechanics of heterogeneous soft crystals
  H. Cho, J. C. Weaver, E. Pöselt, G. C. Rutledge†, M. C. Boyce†
  Advanced Functional Materials, 26 (38), 2016 [doi]

• Mechanics of the Taylor impact behavior of elastomeric copolymers
  H. Cho†, S. Bartyczak, W. Mock, M. C. Boyce†
  Elastomeric Polymers with High Rate Sensitivity: Applications in Blast, Shockwave and Penetration Mechanics, 2015 [doi]

• Mechanics of the large deformation behavior of elastomeric copolymers
  H. Cho†, M. C. Boyce†
  Elastomeric Polymers with High Rate Sensitivity: Applications in Blast, Shockwave and Penetration Mechanics, 2015 [doi]

• Dissipation and resilience of elastomeric segmented copolymers under extreme strain rates
  H. Cho, S. Bartyczak, W. Mock, M. C. Boyce†
  Polymer, 52 (21), 2014 [doi]

• Constitutive modeling of the rate-dependent resilient and dissipative large deformation behavior of a segmented copolymer polyurea
  H. Cho, R. G. Rinaldi, M. C. Boyce†
  Soft Matter, 9 (27), 2013 [doi]

• ReaxFF potential
  A. P. Thompson†, H. Cho
  LAMMPS, Sandia National Laboratories, 2010 (published under the GNU license) [Authors of LAMMPS]

Manuscripts in preparation

• Modeling the inelasticity in ethylene methacrylic acid copolymers and ionomers
  H. Cho†, G. Lee, J. Lee, M. C. Boyce

• A crystal mechanics model that accounts for non-Schmid effects and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
  S. D. Dunham, H. Cho, M. Knezevic, S. Pathak, M. Gonzalez, C. Alleman, O. F. Olanrewaju, M. Tonelli, C. A Bronkhorst†

• Tunable dynamic modulus, damping, stiffness and energy absorption of visco-hyperelastic particulate composites through buckling
  Y. Xiang, D. Chen, H. Cho, S. Rudykh†

Recent Presentations (PDF available)

• Experiments and nonlocal continuum modeling of the size-dependent fracture in elastomers
  J. U. Lee, J. Lee, H. Cho†
  24th International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2024

• Stiffness, strength and reusability in architected polycrystals
  S. Lee, H. Cho†
  19th European Mechanics of Materials Conference, 2024

• Micromechanics of thermoplastic elastomers with random microstructures
  J. Lee, J. Moon, H. Cho†, G. C. Rutledge, M. C. Boyce
  March Meeting of the American Physical Society, 2024