Carlos Armando Duarte

Carlos Armando Duarte holds the Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair as a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research pioneers advanced computational methodologies in engineering mechanics with over 110 scholarly contributions.

His primary research domains include Finite Element Analysis, Generalized Finite Element Methods, Multiscale Modeling, Fracture Mechanics, and Composite Materials. He develops innovative numerical techniques like enrichment functions and partition-of-unity methods to solve complex engineering problems involving brittle fracture, asphalt pavements, and composite structures.

Recent publications demonstrate consistent advancement in discontinuity-enriched finite element methods (DE-FEM) for fracture simulation, global-local multiscale approaches for advection-diffusion systems, and 3D generalized FEM applications in transportation infrastructure. His work bridges theoretical computational mechanics with practical civil engineering challenges across materials science and structural analysis disciplines.

Honors and Awards:

• USACM Fellow (2017)