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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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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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Yinan Cui | Postdoctoral ScholarResearch Interests: Material mechanical behavior in Extreme Environments (such as irradiation, high strain rate), Multiscale computational mechanics, Material Defect Physics and Science. |
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Can Erel | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Computational mechanics; Multi-scale problems; Crystal plasticity; Homogenization methods. |
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David Rivera | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Physics of materials defects, effects of stress on the damage evolution behavior of refractory metals, material degradation in space propulsion systems, material detriment due to thermal shock, radiation damage, continuum mechanics. |
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Christopher Matthes | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Space propulsion, material behavior under plasma conditions, material degradation in severe environments, mechanics and physics of material defects, damage and failure of materials in mechanical design, simulation methods for materials and solids using FEM. |
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Andrew Sheng | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Damage and Failure of Materials in Mechanical Design; Mechanics and Physics of Material Defects. |
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Edward Xiang Gao | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Vacancy and Helium Bubble nucleation in Tungsten due to plasma bombardment; Stochastic molecular studies using Kinetic Monte Carlo models; Molecular simulation using LAMMPS and COMSOL |
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Yue Huang | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Multiphysics and multiscale finite element analysis; High heat flux component design; Dislocation-based crystal plasticity modeling. |
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Mohammad Alabdullah | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Physics base damage modeling of composites for extreme heat environments. |
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Warren Nadvornick | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Multiscale modeling of metallic foams in high temperature environments, effective thermomechanical and transport properties of foams, evolution of irradiation-induced microstructural defects in materials. |
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Arian Ghazari | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Thermomechanical Cyclic Plasticity & Fracture of BCC Metals in Severe Thermal Transients. |
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Dylan Dickstein | Ph. D. StudentResearch Interests: Structural Mechanics and Heat Transfer of Hypersonic Vehicles and Erosion Mechanisms. |
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Kevin Mark | Undergraduate StudentResearch Interests: 3D Modeling of Real Volumes; Web Design; C++ Programming; Advanced/Alternative Space Propulsion Systems |