Staff profile

Ted has recently completed his PhD at Durham University and is now continuing as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. His doctoral research focused on developing micropolar (Cosserat) continuum models and implementing them within the Material Point Method (MPM) to investigate large-deformation strain localisation problems in geomaterials. He is continuing to advance the use of the MPM for geotechnical applications. As an undergraduate at Durham, Ted also worked to develop an 'engineer’s guide' to the Virtual Element Method.

• Computational solid mechanics
• Continuum mechanics

Chapter in book

• Forewords: Perspective from a UK University student
  
  O’Hare, T. (2021). Forewords: Perspective from a UK University student. In D. Baker & L. Ellis (Eds.), Libraries, Digital Information, and COVID (p. xix-xxiii). Chandos. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-88493-8.00039-2

Conference Paper

• Simulation of strain localisation with an elastoplastic micropolar material point method
  
  O’Hare, T. J., Gourgiotis, P. A., Coombs, W. M., & Augarde, C. E. (2024). Simulation of strain localisation with an elastoplastic micropolar material point method. In W. M. Coombs (Ed.), UKACM Proceedings 2024 (pp. 141-144). UK Association for Computational Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.62512/conf.ukacm2024.009
• A geometrically-exact Finite Element Method for micropolar continua with finite deformations
  
  O’Hare, T. J., Gourgiotis, P. A., Coombs, W. M., & Augarde, C. E. (2023, April 19 – 2023, April 21). A geometrically-exact Finite Element Method for micropolar continua with finite deformations [Conference paper]. Presented at UKACM 2023, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• The Virtual Element Method for Engineers
  
  O’Hare, T., & Augarde, C. (2022, April 20 – 2022, April 22). The Virtual Element Method for Engineers [Conference paper]. Presented at UKACM 2022, Nottingham, England.

Doctoral Thesis

• Localisation in computational geomechanics: a nonlinear micropolar approach
  
  O’Hare, T. (2025). Localisation in computational geomechanics: a nonlinear micropolar approach [Thesis]. Durham University. https://etheses.dur.ac.uk/16144/

Journal Article

• An implicit Material Point Method for micropolar solids undergoing large deformations
  
  O’Hare, T., Gourgiotis, P., Coombs, W., & Augarde, C. (2024). An implicit Material Point Method for micropolar solids undergoing large deformations. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 419, Article 116668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116668