Structural Materials Laboratory
Personnel
Pranesh B. Aswath, Ph.D. Professor and Graduate Advisor
Roger Goolsby, Ph.D. Professor
Wen S. Chan, Ph.D. Professor
Collaborators
Robert Eberhart Ph.D. (Prof. Bioengineering)
Panayotis Shiakolas Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof. Mechanical Engineering)
Funding
Center for Convergent Biotechnology
Micro and Macrocracks in Blackglas™ Matrix Composites
Advanaced Technology Program (THECB)
National Science Program
Bell Helicopter
• Graduate students
Ms. Hande Demirkiran (Ph. D.)
Mr. Thomas Das (Ph. D.)
Mr Puneet Saggar (MS)
• Alumni of Group (Select)
Dr. Anurag Pandey (Chemica Corp)
Dr, Dipen Shah (HSN Associates)Dr. Amit Bandyopadhyay (Washington State University)
Dr. Stephen Quander (Nokia)
Dr. Melinda Stewart (Bell Helicopter)
Dr. Murali Hanabe (Texas Instruments)
Dr. Sriram Rangarajan (Corning)
Dr. Laura Sullivan (Kettering Institute)
Dr. Dale Ball (Lockheed Martin)
Research Activities
The structural materials laboratory is a central facility that is available for faculty in Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering among others. This laboratory has been used to drive a number of research projects including but not limited to (i) Development of Barium Aluminosilicate-Silicon Nitride Composites (ii) Fatigue of Titanium Aluminides and Titanium Matrix Composites (iii) Fracture behavior of Polymer Pyrolyzed Ceramic Matrix Composites (iv) Mechanical properties of Graphite Epoxy composites (v) Mechanical properties of Biomaterials (vi) Mechanical Behavior of Shape memory alloys (vii) Fracture of Bamboo and Bamboo reinforced concrete
Facilities
• Structural Testing
- Instron 1331 20 Kip Tensile and Fatigue Servohydraulic System
- Instron 1331 5 Kip Extra long stroke High Strain Rate Servohydraulic system
- MTS 810 50 Kip Servohydraulic System.
- Homebuilt 20 Kip Servohydraulic System.
- QTest MTS Screw Driven test frame
- Leco Rockwell and Vickers Hardness testers.
- ATS Tensile and 4 point bend Creep frames with 1540°C furnaces.
Selected Publications
Hysteresis Behavior of T-Stub Connections with Superelastic Shape Memory Fasteners, Ali Abolmaali, Jason Treadway, Pranesh Aswath, Frank Lu and Emily McCarthy, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 62(8), 831-838 (2006).
Physical and Mechanical Behavior of Hot rolled HDPE/HA composites, Anurag Pandey, Eric Jan and Pranesh Aswath, Journal of Materials Science 41(11), 3369-3376 (2006). Processing, Physical and Thermal Properties of Blackglas™ Matrix Composites reinforced with Nextel™ 440, S. Rangarajan, R. Belardinellu and P.B. Aswath, Journal Materials Science 34, 515-533 (1999). Microstructural Stability, Microhardness and Oxidation Behavior of In-Situ Reinforced Ti-8.5Al-1B-1Si (wt.%), B. G. Velasco and Pranesh Aswath, Journal of Materials Science 33, 2203-2214 (1998).
Microstructure and Fracture Behavior of a Ti-24Al-11Nb Intermetallic, W.O. Soboyejo, P.B. Aswath and L. Xu, Journal of Materials Science 32, 5833-5847 (1997). Microstructural Stability and Mechanism of Fatigue and Creep Crack Growth in Ti-24Al-11Nb, P.B. Aswath, R.D. Goolsby and L.W. Graham, Journal of Materials Science 32, 2191-2206 (1997).
Fatigue of In-Situ Reinforced Ti-8.5Al-1B-1Si, S. Rangarajan, P.B. Aswath and W.O. Soboyejo, Journal of Materials Research 12(4), 1102-1111 (1997).