- S.D. 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.
- A. Antoniou, G.W. 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.
- C.S. Deo, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Atomistic and mesoscale modeling; defects in materials; materials behavior in extreme environments including deformation and particle irradiation.
- H. Garmestani, School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Quantitative characterization of materials, diffraction methods, statistical continuum mechanics treatments of heterogeneous materials; materials design.
- A. Gokhale, School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Quantitative fractography and microscopy (stereology), modeling of microstructures, quantitative relationships between microstructure and mechanical behavior of materials.
- W.S. 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.
- K. Kalaitzidou, G.W. 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.
- S. Kalidindi, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE
- Designing material internal structure for optimal properties and performance and identifying hybrid processing routes for its manufacture.
- D.L. McDowell, G.W. 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.
- S. Melkote, G.W. 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.
- C. Muhlstein, School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Deformation, fatigue, fracture mechanics, degradation mechanisms, structural materials, composite materials, nanomaterials, thin films.
- R.W. Neu, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE
- Thermomechanical fatigue, environmental effects, composite materials, fracture mechanics, creep, fatigue life prediction methods, mechanics of phase transformations.
- O. Pierron, G.W. 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.
- C.J. Saldana, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Ultrafine-grained and nanocrystalline materials, and surface modification and micro-scale texturing methods.
- P. 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.
- S. Sitaraman, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Thermo-mechanical modeling, reliability, and design of electronic packages.
- A. Stebner, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Characterization and data analysis for deformation and manufacturing of materials; additive manufacturing; materials and process design.
- L.K. Stewart, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Characterization of material and structural response to high strain rates; explosive and shock effects on materials; computational mechanics for shock and vibrations.
- N. Thadhani, School of Materials Science and Engineering/ME
- Materials aspects of dynamic deformation, including fracture and flow behavior of solid and porous materials, synthesis of intermetallics and ceramics materials utilizing effects of high-strain-rate loading.
- S. Xia, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
- Experimental solid mechanics, nano and micromechanics, mechanics of energy storage and conversion materials, mechanics of heterogeneous media, fracture and fatigue of active materials.
- M. Zhou, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE
- High strain rate behavior of materials, experimental and computational studies of shear banding and deformation of heterogeneous materials; atomistic simulations of functional oxides and nanowires.
- T. Zhu, G.W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering/MSE
- Atomistic modeling of defect nucleation in materials; transition states and defect kinetics; coupled multiphysics problems at nanoscales.
* ME denotes joint appointment in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
* MSE denotes joint appointment in the School of Materials Science and Engineering