Publications

Summary: 20 total publications (12 published/accepted international journal papers, 8 international conference papers). 370+ total citations; h-index 8; i10-index 8.

Journal Publications

Structure-Property Relationships and Morphometric Effects of Different Sharks’ Teeth on Shearing Performance

J. W. Wood, M. A. Murphy, Nayeon. Lee, et al.

In preparation (2026)

A physics-based constitutive material model for hydrogen embrittlement considering hydrogen-enhanced decohesion and hydrogen-enhanced plasticity mechanisms in for high rate dp600

A. Bakhtiarydavijani, B. D. Huddleston, L. Peterson, Nayeon Lee, S. Adibi sedeh, D. E. Dickel, Y. Hammi, D. Bammann

In preparation (2026)

Surrogate model-based design optimization of a mobile deployable structure for blast load and vehicular impact mitigation

Daniela F. Tellkamp, Sungkwang Mun, Gehendra Sharma, Nayeon Lee, Luke Peterson

Under Review (2026)

Transforming Additive Manufacturing with Transfer Learning: Applications, Challenges, and Future Directions

Qing Liu, Ayantha Senanayaka, Nayeon Lee, Sungkwang Mun, Amin Amirlatifi, Joe Jabour, Thomas Arnold, Maria Seale

Advanced Engineering Informatics Under Review (2026)

Nature’s way of dissipating mechanical energy: transmitting normal (uniaxial, biaxial, and triaxial) stresses to shear stresses

M.F. Horstemeyer, Nayeon Lee, H. Gao

Under Review (2026)

Mitigating Failures and Enhancing Reliability of a Canine Ventricular Shunt Through Robust Multi-objective Design Method

Gehendra Sharma, Ryan Yingling, Nayeon Lee, et al.

Medical Engineering & Physics (2026)

A Modified Embedded Atom Method (MEAM) Interatomic Potential for the Fe-CH System

Sungkwang Mun, Nayeon Lee, D. Dickle, et al.

arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.01712 (2021)

Structural Design and Optimization of Deployable Protective Wall Using Machine Learning-Based Surrogate Models for Blast and Impact Resistance

Daniela F. Tellkamp, Sungkwang Mun, Gehendra Sharma, Nayeon Lee, Luke Peterson

Machine Learning: Engineering (2025)

The Function of Horn Ridges for Impact Damping.

Nayeon Lee, Sungkwang Mun, Kyle L. Johnson, and M.F. Horstemeyer.

Biomimetics 9(8), p.506 (2024)

Theoretical model of impact mitigation mechanisms inherent to the North American bison skull.

Persons, A.K., Hammi, Y., Elder, S.H., Priddy, L.B., Priddy, M.W., Butler, R., Schemmel, A., Whitehurst, E., Lee, N. and Horstemeyer, M.F.

Biology Open 13(9) (2024)

Enhancing the accuracy of machinery fault diagnosis through fault source isolation of complex mixture of industrial sound signals.

Senanayaka, Ayantha, Philku Lee, Nayeon Lee, Charles Dickerson, Anton Netchaev, and Sungkwang Mun.

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology 1-16 (2024)

Effect of Treated Time of Hydrothermal Etching Process on Oxide Layer Formation and Its Antibacterial Properties.

Nayeon Lee, et al.

Biomimetics 7.3: 91 (2022)

Microstructure and nanomechanical properties of the exoskeleton of southern ironclad beetles

Nayeon Lee, P.R. Berthelson, Vina Nguyen, Me’Lanae Garrett, AnneMarie Kovach, Lakiesha N. Williams, Robert Moser, M.F. Horstemeyer, Hongjoo Rhee, R.K. Prabhu

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2021)

Stress wave mitigation at suture interfaces

Nayeon Lee, Lakiesha N. Williams, Sungkwang Mun, R. Prabhu, Kabindra R. Bhattarai, H. Rhee, M.F. Horstemeyer

Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express 3, no. 3: 035025 (2017)

The geometric effects of a woodpecker’s hyoid apparatus in shock mitigation

Nayeon Lee, M.F. Horstemeyer, R. Prabhu, Jun Liao, Hongjoo Rhee, Youssef Hammi, Lakiesha N. Williams

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics 11, no. 6: 066004 (2016)

Uncertainty analysis of an irrigation scheduling model for water management in crop production.

Sungkwang Mun, G. F. Sassenrath, A. M. Schmidt, Nayeon Lee, M. C. Wadsworth, Brandon Rice, Jason Q. Corbitt et al.

Agricultural Water Management 155: 100-112 (2015)

Hierarchical multiscale structure–property relationships of the red-bellied woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) beak.

Nayeon Lee, M. F. Horstemeyer, Hongjoo Rhee, Ben Nabors, Jun Liao, and Lakiesha N. Williams

Journal of The Royal Society Interface 11, no. 96: 20140274 (2014)

Geometric effects on stress wave propagation.

Johnson, K. L., M. W. Trim, M. F. Horstemeyer, Nayeon Lee, L. N. Williams, Jun Liao, Hongjoo Rhee, and R. Prabhu

Journal of biomechanical engineering 136, no. 2: 021023 (2014)

Characterization and failure analysis of a polymeric clamp hanger component.

Francis, D. K., J. Deang, R. S. Florea, D. R. Gaston, N. Lee, S. Nouranian, C. J. Permann et al.

Engineering Failure Analysis 26: 230-239 (2012)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Enhancing Defect Detection Accuracy in Wire-Arc Additive Manufactured Samples Through Fusion of Multi-Directional Scanning with Phased Array Ultrasound Testing (PAUT)

Nayeon Lee, Ayantha Senanayaka, Jonathan Storey, Michael Murphy, Joonsik Hwang, et al.

ASME-IMECE Memphis, TN (2025)

Frequency domain tensor-based 1D-convolutional neural network and multilinear principal component analysis for machinery fault detection

Ayantha Senanayaka, Qing Liu, Nayeon Lee, Sungkwang Mun, Amin Amirlatifi, Joe Jabour, Thomas Arnold, Maria Seale

The proceedings of the Prognostic and Health Monitoring Conference Nashville, TN (2024)