Engineering Faculty Profile
Vinamra Agrawal
Assistant ProfessorAerospace Engineering
Education:
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of TechnologyM.S. Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur
Research Interests:
Mechanics of composites and heterogeneous materialsEnergy harvesting through ferroic and multiferroic materials
Damage mechanics
Smart composites and engineered metamaterials
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Interdisciplinary team to explore stress response with major NSF award
A team of Auburn University faculty from departments across three disciplines will use a nearly $2 million National Science Foundation award to look at how environmental stressors initiate and prime stress responses, and when those responses influence an animal’s ability to pass genes to next generations.
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NSF-funded project to study multiscale high-speed impacts on materials
High speed impacts occur often in the aerospace and defense industries – from a bird striking an airplane to a micrometeorite colliding with a satellite. Understanding how materials such as plastics, metals and ceramics that make up airplanes and satellites respond to high-speed impacts can help engineers to design strong, lightweight and impact-resistant structures.
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