634 Nedderman Hall
Box 19019
416 Yates Street
Arlington, TX 76019-0019
Structural Materials Laboratory
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:
- Development of Barium Aluminosilicate-Silicon Nitride Composites
- Fatigue of Titanium Aluminides and Titanium Matrix Composites
- Fracture behavior of Polymer Pyrolyzed Ceramic Matrix Composites
- Mechanical properties of Graphite Epoxy composites
- Mechanical properties of Biomaterials
- Mechanical Behavior of Shape memory alloys
- Fracture of Bamboo and Bamboo reinforced concrete
Personnel
- Pranesh B. Aswath, Ph.D. Professor and Graduate Advisor
- 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
- Advanced Technology Program (THECB)
- National Science Program
- Bell Helicopter
Graduate students
- Ms. Hande Demirkiran (Ph. D.)
- Mr. Thomas Das (Ph. D.)
- Mr Puneet Saggar (M.S.)
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)
Facilities and Equipment
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).