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Research Faculty Research
John A. Barnard
- Dendrimer-based hybrid nanocomposite films, National Science Foundation
- Novel approaches to the synthesis, processing, and application of nanocomposite magnets, DARPA
Sung Kwon Cho
- MEMS design and fabrication
- Micro/biofluidics
- BioMEMS
Minking K. Chyu
- Heat and mass transfer
- Gas turbine cooling and durability
- Fuel cells
- Energy technology
William W. Clark
- Energy harvesting
- Active and passive-semi-active vibration control
- Smart structures
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)
- Microresonators
Daniel G. Cole
- Dynamic systems, measurement, and control
- Iterative and adaptive control
- Control of nanosystems
- Nanomanipulation and fabrication
- Optical traps
- Adaptive optics
Anthony J. DeArdo/Calixto I. Garcia
- Study of the sources of property variability in HSLA steels. Sponsoring companies and agency: U.S. Steel, Rouge Steel, HyLSA Steel, Reference Metals Company, and AISI
- New ultra-low carbon high strength steels with improved bake hardenability for enhanced stretch formability and dent resistance. DOE, ORNL, U.S. Steel, Weirton Steel, and Reference Metals Company
- Development of ultra-high strength linepipe steels. Wuhan Steel and TAMSA
- A new approach to TRIP steels. U.S. Steel and Reference Metals Company
- Physical metallurgy of high strength thin slab casting steels. Nucor Steel, HyLSA, and Reference Metals Company
- Development of medium carbon steels with enhanced machinability. Machinability Consortium
- Development of dual-phase and trip steels for automotive applications. Nucor Steel
Pradeep P. Fulay
- Magnetically assisted CMP of low-K polymers, NSF 0115406
Giovanni P. Galdi
- Linear and nonlinear stability
- Fluid/particle interaction
- Flow in channels and pipes
Peyman Givi
- Turbulence
- Combustion
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Propulsion
- Stochastic processes
Prashant N. Kumta
- Nanostructured materials
- Non-viral gene and protein delivery
- Energy storage systems
- Mineralized tissue engineering
jung-kun lee
- Solar cell application of nanostructured materials
- Ion beam process and characterization
- Functional oxide materials
Scott X. Mao
- Experimental micro- and nanoscale mechanics
- Materials science
- Applied and fracture mechanics
- Thin films
- Metal/ceramic composites
Gerald H. Meier/Fred S. Pettit
- Fundamental studies of the durability of materials for interconnects in solid oxide fuel cells, NETL SECA Grant, DOE
- Investigation of material performances in high-moisture environments including corrosive contaminants typical of those arising by using alternative fuels in gas turbines, South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies; DOE
- The effect of water vapor on the oxidation of alumina-forming alloys and coatings, Office of Naval Research
- Multidisciplinary university research initiative on the science underpinning prime reliant coatings, Office of Naval Research MURI Grant
- Mechanism-based testing methodology for improving the oxidation, hot corrosion, and impact resistance of high temperature coatings for advanced gas turbines, South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies, DOE
Ian Nettleship
- The processing of highly porous ceramics by analogy with quasi-regular eutectic structures, National Science Foundation
- Validation of sintering models by the application of advanced microstructural analysis, Sandia National Laboratory
- An interdisciplinary approach to process control at the microstructure level: The application to the fracture strength of advanced ceramics, with Professor Smith of the Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, Auburn University; National Science Foundation
Anne M. Robertson
- Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics
- Cerebral vascular disease
- Constitutive modeling of soft biological tissues
Laura Schaefer
- Manufacturing and operational heat transfer
- Two-phase binary zeotropic flows
- Heat and water management in fuel cells
- Algorithm and sensor developments for building systems
- Hybrid fuel cell-turbine power generation
William S. Slaughter
- Theoretical solid mechanics
- Strain gradient plasticity
- Sintered materials
- Modeling of bioprostheic valves
Patrick Smolinski
- Computational simulation and finite element analysis
- Orthopaedic device engineering, tissue characterization and tissue engineering
- Simulation and testing of surgical procedures and injury mechanisms
- Quantitative Anatomic characterization
Jeffrey Vipperman
- Acoustics, structural acoustics, noise control, and hearing loss prevention
- Applied control, including active noise and vibration control
- Control algorithm development (feedback and adaptive feedforward)
- Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) design and fabrication
- Modeling and simulation of dynamic systems
- Smart structures and systems, including sensor and actuator development
Qing-Ming Wang
- Smart materials, including piezoelectrics and electrostrictives
- Thin films
- Actuator and sensor development
- MEMS design and fabrication
- Micro fuel cells
- BioMEMS
Lisa Mauck Weiland
- Experimental mechanics of active materials
- Ferroelectric ceramics intermediate rate regime characterization
- Ionic polymer nanoscale energetics
- Nastic materials computational development
Jörg M.K. Wiezorek
- CAREER: Nanostructured intermetallic alloys-annealing behavior, microstructural control, and influence of scale in reversibly ordering systems, National Science Foundation (DMR-Metals)
- Nanoscaled deformation and fracture processes in nanolayers, National Science Foundation (CMS)
Sylvanus N. Wosu
- Impact physics/experimental mechanics
- Composite materials
- Biomechanics of cerebral oxygen metabolism
Judith C. Yang
- Nanoscale metal oxidation, National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE)
- Materials passivation and degradation in low Earth orbit, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI-AFOSR)
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