SPONSORED RESEARCH TOPICS
CURRENT
·
Army Research Office, ‘Mechanics of
Dynamic Fracture and Damage Evolution in Glasses and Ceramics’ PI-PD, 2022-2025.
·
National
Science Foundation, ‘Material Processing and Mechanical Behavior of
High-Performance Cellulose Nanopaper made from
Cellulose Nanofibrils,’ PI-PD, 2021-2024.
·
Federal
Aviation Administration, ‘The Effect of Machine and Machine-to-Machine
Variability on Mechanical Properties of Additively Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V,’
co-PI, 2020-2022.
COMPLETED
1. Army Research Office, ‘Dynamic Failure
Mechanics of Layered Architectures using Novel Full-Field Optical Methods,’
PI/PD, 2016-2019.
2. Army
Research Office (DURIP), ‘Non-Contact
Optical Metrology Instrumentation for Failure Characterization of Transparent
Armor Materials,’ PI/PD, 2015-2017.
3.
‘Incoherent
LED Pulse Laser for High-Speed Imaging and Optical Metrology,’ ARO, PI-PD,
2015-2016.
4.
‘Residual Property Prediction for
Damaged Composite Structures,’ GERT; DOD-SBIR Phase II, PI, 2014-2016.
- ‘Molecular
interpenetrated polymer composites (MIPC) for high strain-rate
applications: Development and characterization of novel lightweight
transparent materials,’ ARO, PI-PD, 2012-2015.
- ‘Development
of a full-field digital gradient sensor for failure characterization of
transparent structural materials,’ NSF, PI-PD, 2012-2015.
- ‘Novel
lightweight syntactic foams made of nanoengineered
microballoons: Synthesis, processing and
characterization,’ NSF, PI-PD, 2011-2014.
- ‘Development of prepreg
and out-of-autoclave process for z-aligned carbon nanofiber toughened
lightweight composites, NASA, co-PI, 2010-2013.
- ‘Processing and dynamic failure
characterization of novel impact absorbing transparent interpenetrating
polymer network’, DTRA, PI-PD, 2009-2013.
- ‘Processing, failure characterization
and modeling of lightweight interpenetrating network composites’, Army
Research Office, PI-PD, 2008-2011.
- 'Investigation
of Strain Rate Effects on Crack Growth in Graphite/Epoxy Composites' NASA,
2006-2011.
- ‘Interaction between growing cracks and
inclusion: Toughening mechanisms in heterogeneous materials’, National
Science Foundation, PI-PD, 2007-2010.
- 'High Strain
Rate Fracture of Heterogeneous Materials, Army Research Office, PI-PD,
2004-2008.
- 'Fracture of
Polymeric Heterogeneous Materials with Micro-Fillers ', National Science
Foundation, PI-PD, 2005-2006.
- 'Static and
Dynamic Failure Characterization of Composites' NASA, 2004-2005.
- 'High Speed
Imaging Equipment for Studying Dynamic Behavior of Functionally Graded
Heterogeneous Materials', Army Research Office, PI-PD, 2002-2003.
- 'Influence of
Compositional Gradients on the Dynamic Failure of Functionally Graded
Materials', Army Research Office, PI-PD, 2001-2004.
- ‘Investigation
of Elasto-Plastic Interfacial Crack Tip Fields
Using Infrared Interferometry’, National Science Foundation, PI-PD, 2000-
2003.
- 'Instrumented
Impact Testor for Studying Dynamic Fracture
Behavior of Heterogeneous Materials', Army Research Office, PI-PD,
2001-2002.
- ‘An infrared
CGS for failure characterization of functionally graded materials’,
Instrumentation Grant, PI-PD, Army Research Office, 1998-2000.
- ‘Crack tip
field mapping and failure characterization of functionally graded
compositions’, PI-PD, Army Research Office, 1997-2000.
- ‘Functionally
graded materials characterization using optical techniques’, PI-PD,
National Science Foundation 1996-2000.
- ‘Joining and
interfacial study of refractory alloy single crystals for high temperature
applications’ co-PI, (PI: Ralph Zee, co-PI: Bill Gale), Air Force Office
of Scientific Research, 1997-2000.
- ‘Interfacial
crack initiation under thermal-mechanical loading’, PI-PD, National
Science Foundation, 1994-1997.
- ‘Experimental
simulation of crack initiation at bimaterial
interfaces’, PI,-PD, National Science Foundation, 1991-1993.
- University Research Instrumentation
Program Grant, co-investigator, (PI: R.C. Jaeger,), National Science
Foundation 1995-1997.