Education :

• B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran 2004
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Iran 2007
• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, WSU, 2013

Projects :

Materials design through interface engineering

Awards :

• 2013 James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize from Editors and the Publishers of Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters, Spring 2014.
• Harriet B. Rigas award from The Association for Faculty Women (AFW) for Outstanding Students in Graduate Studies, Washington State University (WSU), Spring 2013
• Henry DeWitt Smith Scholarship from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) and the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), Spring 2013
• Best Junior Researcher Award, TMS Annual meeting & Exhibition, Spring 2011

Selected publications :

A. J. Vattré, N. Abdolrahim, K. Kolluri, and M. J. Demkowicz, “Computational design of patterned interfaces using reduced order models”, Scientific reports, Vol. 4, 6231, 2014. http://www.nature.com/articles/srep06231

Abdolrahim, N., Bahr, D.F., Zbib, H.M., “Multiscale modeling and simulation of deformation in nanoscale metallic multilayer systems”, International Journal of Plasticity, Vol. 52, pp. 33-50, 2014. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749641913000909

Abdolrahim, N., Bahr, D.F., Revard, B., Reilly, C., Ye, J., Balk, T.J., Zbib, H.M., “The mechanical response of core-shell structures for nanoporous metallic materials”, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 93, pp. 736-748, 2013.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14786435.2012.731528#.UlgFDG…

Abdolrahim, N., Mastorakos. IN., Zbib, H.M., “Precipitate strengthening in nanometallic material composites” Philosophical Magazine Letters, Vol. 92, pp. 597-607, 2012  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09500839.2012.704153#.UlgGbm…

Abdolrahim, N., Mastorakos. IN., Zbib, H.M., “Deformation mechanisms and pseudoelastic behaviors in trilayer composite metal nanowires” Physical Review B, Vol. 81, 054117, 2010 http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v81/i5/e054117