Dr. Jonah H. Lee, Professor

• Finite Element Analysis and Mechanics of Materials



• Snow Mechanics
• Constitutive modeling of the plasticity materials
• Finite element analysis and algorithms
• Analysis of pressure-sensitive and porous materials


• Vehicle-Ground Interaction and Terramechanics



• Vehicle-terrain interaction
• Friction and slip analysis of tire-snow and tire-ice intefaces
• Terramechanics
• Remote sensing of terrain using Ground Penetrating Radar


• Vehicle Mobility and Vehicle Dynamics



• Vehicle mobility and performance evaluation for cold regions
• Vehicle modeling and simulation
• Vehicle system dyanmics and advanced controls


• Tribology (Friction, Wear and Lubrication)



• Friction and wear of polymers, metals, ice, snow, foams
• Low-temperature engine tribology
• Engine lubrication and cold start

For curriculum vitae of Dr. Lee, please click here    

1. Professor Lee is the general chair of the Joint North America, Asia-Pacific ISTVS 2007 Conference and the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Terramechanics in Fairbanks, Alaska, June 23-26, 2007.   Please visit ISTVS 2007 Web for more information.  
2. Professor Lee organized and chaired a technical session at the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) 2007 World Congress, Detroit MI. He and Dr. Qing Liu, CEM, co-authored two papers in tire modeling at the SAE Congress where one of the papers has been selected for SAE Transactions 2007.
3. Professor Lee served on a review panel in December, 2006 for the CMMI Division of the National Science Foundation.
4. Professor Lee presented a paper entitled 'Significance of Plate-Indentation Tests for Tire-Snow Interaction' in the 10th European Conference of the ISTVS, Budapest, Hungary, October 2006.
5. Professor Lee was invited by the President of National Central University, Republic of China, to give a seminar entitled 'The Mechanics of Vehicle-Ground Interface' on August 28, 2006 and visited several departments and research institutes.

• Qing Liu,   Ph.D. and Research Faculty
• Hongyan Yuan,   Graduate Student
• Sirisha Nerella,   Graduate Student
• Wei Wang,   Graduate Student

• Akshaya V. Nandam (2007),  
• Jeevana Dasari (2006)  
• Preetham Dhoopati (2006)  
• Saritha Munnangi (2006)  

• “Automotive Research Center” Project (see external link at http://arc.engin.umich.edu/).
• “Low Temperature Research Center” Project, U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC).
• “Modeling and Validation of Military Hybrid Vehicle Performance”, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground (YPG).

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• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• Materials Research Society
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• International Society of Terrain-Vehicle Systems

• Lee, J.H., Liu, Q., Significance of Plate-Indentation Tests for Tire-Snow Interaction, Proceedings of the 10th European Conference of the ISTVS, Budapest, Hungary, 2006, pp. 15.
• Lee, J.H., Liu, Q. and Mourelatos, Z.P., “Simulation of Tire-Snow Interfacial Forces for a Range of Snow Densities with Uncertainty”, SAE Transactions, 2006. Also, SAE Paper 2006-01-0497 (2006)
• Lee, J.H., Liu, Q., “Interfacial Forces between Tire and Snow under Different Snow Depths”, SAE Paper 2006-01-0496 (2006)
• Liu, Q. and Lee, J.H., “Time-Dependent Tire-Snow Modeling for Two-Dimensional Slip Conditions”, SAE Transactions, 2006. Also, SAE Paper 2006-01-1168, (2006)
• Lee, J.H., Liu, Q., and Zhang, T., “Predictive Semi-Analytical Model for Tire-Snow Interaction”, SAE Paper 2005-01-0932, 2005
• Lee, J.H. and Liu, Q., “Upper Bound Indentation Theory for Snow-Depth Dependent Sinkage Calculation”, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference of the ISTVS, Hayama, Japan, 2005.

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