Mahmoud Mousavi
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Applied Mechanics
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 62 82
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 167 96 11
- E-mail:
- mahmoud.mousavi@angstrom.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ångströmlaboratoriet, Lägerhyddsvägen 1
- Postal address:
- Box 524
751 20 UPPSALA
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Associate Professor
Research Group: Mahmoud Mousavi leads a research group addressing "Architectured Materials: Mechanics and Beyond"
Head of Division: Applied Mechanics
SSF strategic mobility: Hitachi Energy 2026-2027
Board member: Faculty Educational Board of Engineering 2025-3027
Edotorial board member: Applied Mathematics in Science and Engineering (Taylor & Francis)
Member: Swedish National Committee for Mechanics
Biography
Career Highlights:
2019 Associate Professor in Solid Mechanics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Sweden.
2016-2019 Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Department of Engineering and Physics, Karlstad University, Sweden.
2012-2016 Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Department of Civil Engineering, Aalto University, Finland.
2016 (Jan-Jun) Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK.
2014-2015 Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
2007-2012 PhD student, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran.
Qualifications:
2019 Docent (Assoc. Prof.) in Mechanical Engineering. Karlstad University.
2014 University Pedagogical Training, The Strategic Support for Research and Education, Aalto University, Finland.
2012 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran.
2007 M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran.
2005 B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Solid Mechanics, Tehran Polytechnic, Iran.
Publications:
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fOnQMhgAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mahmoud_Mousavi
Research
Current Research Activities: Architectured materials; Composite materials; Homogenization; Generalized continua; Defect mechanics; Fracture mechanics;
General Research Interests: Continuum mechanics; Continuum Multiphysics

Publications
Selection of publications
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Part of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, p. 2255-2274, 2023
- DOI for Second-order homogenization of 3-D lattice materials towards strain gradient media: numerical modelling and experimental verification
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Viscoelastic behavior of softwood based on a multiscale computational homogenization
Part of Mechanics of materials, 2023
- DOI for Viscoelastic behavior of softwood based on a multiscale computational homogenization
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Part of Materials & design, 2023
- DOI for Mechanical coupling and tuned anisotropic elasticity: Numerical and experimental material design for shear-normal and shear-shear interactions
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Part of International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022
- DOI for Damage-induced failure analysis of additively manufactured lattice materials under uniaxial and multiaxial tension
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Part of European journal of mechanics. A, Solids, 2022
- DOI for Computational model for low cycle fatigue analysis of lattice materials: Incorporating theory of critical distance with elastoplastic homogenization
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Hydrogen embrittlement in micro-architectured materials
Part of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022
- DOI for Hydrogen embrittlement in micro-architectured materials
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2022
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Parametric study on moisture-dependent wood cell structures with periodic boundary conditions
2022
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Analysis of planes within reduced micromorphic model
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Analysis of planes within reduced micromorphic model
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Recent publications
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Dynamic characteristics of multilayer graphene considering nonlinear higher-order strain gradient
Part of Composite structures, 2026
- DOI for Dynamic characteristics of multilayer graphene considering nonlinear higher-order strain gradient
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Part of Virtual Reality, 2025
- DOI for Holomech: an extended reality tool for supporting student motivation and perceived spatial reasoning in structural mechanics
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Acoustic analysis of wood cell structures
Part of Wood Science and Technology, 2025
- DOI for Acoustic analysis of wood cell structures
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Part of Materials & design, 2025
- DOI for Design of auxetic metamaterial for enhanced low cycle fatigue life and negative Poisson's ratio through multi-objective Bayesian optimization
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Tailored energy dissipation with viscoelastic architectured materials
Part of Mechanics of materials, 2025
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Dynamic characteristics of multilayer graphene considering nonlinear higher-order strain gradient
Part of Composite structures, 2026
- DOI for Dynamic characteristics of multilayer graphene considering nonlinear higher-order strain gradient
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Part of Virtual Reality, 2025
- DOI for Holomech: an extended reality tool for supporting student motivation and perceived spatial reasoning in structural mechanics
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Acoustic analysis of wood cell structures
Part of Wood Science and Technology, 2025
- DOI for Acoustic analysis of wood cell structures
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Part of Materials & design, 2025
- DOI for Design of auxetic metamaterial for enhanced low cycle fatigue life and negative Poisson's ratio through multi-objective Bayesian optimization
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Tailored energy dissipation with viscoelastic architectured materials
Part of Mechanics of materials, 2025
- DOI for Tailored energy dissipation with viscoelastic architectured materials
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Part of Mechanics of time-dependant materials, p. 2069-2083, 2024
- DOI for Evaluating the viscoelastic shear properties of clear wood via off-axis compression testing and digital-image correlation
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Nonlinear wave propagation in graphene incorporating second strain gradient theory
Part of Thin-walled structures, 2024
- DOI for Nonlinear wave propagation in graphene incorporating second strain gradient theory
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Part of Mechanics of time-dependant materials, p. 3237-3261, 2024
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Nonlinear dynamic behavior of carbon nanotubes incorporating size effects
Part of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Nonlinear dynamic behavior of carbon nanotubes incorporating size effects
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Part of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, p. 2255-2274, 2023
- DOI for Second-order homogenization of 3-D lattice materials towards strain gradient media: numerical modelling and experimental verification
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Viscoelastic behavior of softwood based on a multiscale computational homogenization
Part of Mechanics of materials, 2023
- DOI for Viscoelastic behavior of softwood based on a multiscale computational homogenization
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Part of Materials & design, 2023
- DOI for Mechanical coupling and tuned anisotropic elasticity: Numerical and experimental material design for shear-normal and shear-shear interactions
- Download full text (pdf) of Mechanical coupling and tuned anisotropic elasticity: Numerical and experimental material design for shear-normal and shear-shear interactions
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Part of International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022
- DOI for Damage-induced failure analysis of additively manufactured lattice materials under uniaxial and multiaxial tension
- Download full text (pdf) of Damage-induced failure analysis of additively manufactured lattice materials under uniaxial and multiaxial tension
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Part of European journal of mechanics. A, Solids, 2022
- DOI for Computational model for low cycle fatigue analysis of lattice materials: Incorporating theory of critical distance with elastoplastic homogenization
- Download full text (pdf) of Computational model for low cycle fatigue analysis of lattice materials: Incorporating theory of critical distance with elastoplastic homogenization
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Hydrogen embrittlement in micro-architectured materials
Part of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2022
- DOI for Hydrogen embrittlement in micro-architectured materials
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Analysis of planes within reduced micromorphic model
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Analysis of planes within reduced micromorphic model
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