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Professor Nasr Ghoniem, Ph. D. | Laboratory LeaderResearch Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Nuclear, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Plasma and Laser Processing; Materials Non-equilibrium, Pattern formation and Instability Phenomena; Radiation Interaction with Materials (neutrons, electrons, particles, laser & photons). |
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Sharam Sharafat, Ph. D. | Adjunct ProfessorResearch Interests: To be updated. |
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Robert Amodeo, Ph. D. | Laboratory ManagerResearch Interests: Beowulf Clusters, Computer Networks; Dislocation Dynamics; Mechanical Behavior of Materials. |
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Silvester Noronha, Ph. D. | Staff Research EngineerResearch Interests: Fracture and Reliability in Mechanical Design; Mechanics of Materials, Finite Element Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Brittle-Ductile transition, damage and degradation of materials due to irradiation; Failure analysis, fracture surfaces; Instabilities in plastic flow, defect physics, nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation, chaos, power-law behavior, mathematical modeling; Multiscale modeling. |
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Ming Wen, Ph. D. | Post-Doctoral Research FellowResearch Interests: Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Computational Methods for Dynamic and nonlinear mechanics of Materials and Solids (Molecular Dynamics, Kinetic Monte Carlo, Dislocation Dynamics, Finite Element); Multi-scale Modeling in Nano-Micro-Mechanics; Simulation of Microstructure Evolution; Material Degradation in Severe Environments (e.g. Fission, Fusion, Rocket Engines, etc.); Radiation Interaction with Materials; Effective Properties of Materials in Damage Mechanics and Composites Mechanics. |
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Qiyang Hu, Ph. D. | Post-Doctoral Research FellowResearch Interests: Research Interests: (1) Computational material modeling of self-assembled microstructure evolution. (2) Atomistic (MD, MC) simulation on nanosized material behavior. (3) Surface properties of coating and thin films during epitaxial growth. (4) Thermal & plastic mechanical analysis of solid structures. |
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Michael Andersen | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: High Average Power Laser (HAPL) program, First wall tungsten foam design (CAD/FEM), Damage/Failure examination of US International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) blanket design, Surface roughening mechanisms for tungsten exposed to laser, ion, and x-ray pulses, ASME criteria for boiler and nuclear components design. |
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Jaafar A. El-Awady | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Size effects on the strength of micro-crystals; Material Design for Fusion and Nuclear Reactors; Impact Dynamics and Wave Propagation in Materials; Structural Design (CAD/FEM). |
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Benjamin Ramirez | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Atomistic simulation (Abinitio methods) on nanosized material behavior. |
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Tamer Crosby | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects (point defects, dislocations, voids and cracks); Simulation methods and design for materials and solids using FEM. |
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Giacomo Po | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Material Degradation in Severe Environments; Radiation Interaction with Materials; Polycrystal Plasticity; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects. |
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Can Erel | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Computational mechanics; Multi-scale problems; Crystal plasticity; Homogenization methods. |
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Dariush Seif | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects; Simulation methods and design of materials. |