
Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Thermo-mechanical modeling, reliability, and design of electronic packages. Singh, School of Materials Science and Engineering Damage accumulation in metal matrix composites (MMCs), environmental sensitive fracture of Al alloys and MMCs, and high temperature oxidation of composites. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Ultrafine-grained and nanocrystalline materials, and surface modification and micro-scale texturing methods. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Experimental and analytical characterization of fracture and fatigue of small scale materials (thin films, nanostructures), structural reliability of MEMS/NEMS devices, environmental effects. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE Thermomechanical fatigue, environmental effects, composite materials, fracture mechanics, creep, fatigue life prediction methods, mechanics of phase transformations. Muhlstein, School of Materials Science and Engineering Deformation, fatigue, fracture mechanics, degradation mechanisms, structural materials, composite materials, nanomaterials, thin films. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Characterization of the effects of machined surface integrity on fatigue life of hardened bearing steels constitutive models for high strain, strain rate and temperature processes such as machining. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE Cyclic viscoplasticity microstructure-sensitive fatigue multiscale modeling from atomistics to continuum finite strain inelasticity, defect field mechanics damage and deformation of metallic systems materials design. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE Designing material internal structure for optimal properties and performance and identifying hybrid processing routes for its manufacture. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE Development and characterization of advanced polymer based particles or composites with superior properties for a wide range of applications. Johnson, School of Materials Science and Engineering/ME Experiments and modeling of fatigue and fracture behavior of advanced materials, including nonlinear and temperature dependent behavior development of life prediction methodologies. Gokhale, School of Materials Science and Engineering Quantitative fractography and microscopy (stereology), modeling of microstructures, quantitative relationships between microstructure and mechanical behavior of materials. Garmestani, School of Materials Science and Engineering Quantitative characterization of materials, diffraction methods, statistical continuum mechanics treatments of heterogeneous materials materials design. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Atomistic and mesoscale modeling defects in materials materials behavior in extreme environments including deformation and particle irradiation. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering Micromechanics of deformation in cellular materials and metallic glasses, using both experimental measurements and numerical modeling synthesis and mechanical behavior of nanostructured materials. Antolovich, School of Materials Science and Engineering/ME Fatigue, deformation and degradation of materials, high-temperature behavior of materials, application of mechanics and materials to structural failures, and fracture mechanics.
