Projects

Federally Sponsored Projects

  • DOD – Office of Naval Research DURIP: Nanoscale Investigation of Material Properties and Damage Precursor in Heterogeneous Material Systems
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Stochastic Multiphysics Framework for Ceramic Matrix Composites including Optimal Quantification of Scale-Dependent Variability 
  • DOD – Army Research Lab: Fatigue Damage Characterization and Life Prediction of Metallic Materials under Multiaxial Out-of-plane Loading 
  • DOD – Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR): Biaxial Fatigue Damage Characterization of Aerospace Alloy 
  • DOD – Naval Air Systems Command STTR, Phase II: Systematic Fatigue Test Spectrum Editing Using Wavelet Transformations 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research: A Computationally Driven Approach to Nano-engineered Composite Structures 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research DURIP: Characterization of Nano- and Microscale Behavior of Multifunctional Materials 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research DURIP: Fatigue Damage Quantification and Life Prediction in Ultra High Cycle Regime 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Scale-Dependent Studies of Meteorite Strength and Fragmentation 
  • NASA – Goddard Space Flight Center: Information Fusion for Real-Time National Air Transportation System Prognostics under Uncertainty 
  • US Department of Energy: Multiphysics Multiscale Simulation Platform for Damage, Environmental Degradation and Life Prediction of CMCs in Extreme Environments. 

AIMS Center Industry Consortium Projects 

  • AIMS Consortium: Arconic: Biaxial Fatigue Characterization of Hybrid Metal Composite Laminate 
  • AIMS Consortium: Atomistic Interphase Simulation 
  • AIMS Consortium: Boeing: Damage Detection in Sandwich Composites 
  • AIMS Consortium: Intel: Detection of Solder Joint Cracks in Integrated Circuit Packages 
  • AIMS Consortium: Multiscale Statistical Composite Characterization 
  • AIMS Consortium: Northrop Grumman: Composites Structures Failure Prediction Health Monitoring:  
  • AIMS Consortium: Raytheon: Innovation for Prognostics and Health Monitoring Technology 

Past Projects 

  • Allied Signal Inc.: A Design Optimization Procedure for Efficient Turbine Airfoil Design 
  • Allied Signal Inc.: A Multilevel Optimization Procedure for Turbine Blade Design 
  • Allied Signal Inc.: An Integrated Optimization Procedure for Efficient Design of Turbine Blades 
  • Allied Signal Inc.: Development of Multidisciplinary Optimization Techniques for Turbine Blades with CFD and Heat Transfer 
  • Department of Transportation – RITA: Multi-Level Adaptive Remote Sensing Package for Bridge Scour Health Management 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research: A New Macro-Micro Approach for Modeling Adaptive Composites  
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research: A Structural Health Monitoring Workshop Roadmap for Transitioning Critical Technology from Research to Practice 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Damage Precursor Detection in Polymer Matrix Composites Using Novel Smart Composite Particles 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research DURIP: Non-Contact Pulse Echo Thermography for Damage Characterization and Structural Health Monitoring 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research DURIP: Tracking Damage Nucleation and Propagation in Metallic Materials Using Planar Biaxial Test System 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Modeling, Analysis and Design of Smart Composite Structures and Curved Actuators 
  • DOD – Air Force Office of Scientific Research MURI – A Multidisciplinary Approach to Structural Health Monitoring and Prognosis of Metallic Aircraft Components 
  • DOD- Air Force Office of Scientific Research: On-Orbit Assessment of Satellite Structural Properties via Robust Structural Health Monitoring 
  • DOD – AMC DURIP: Materials Discovery: Characterization Equipment to Catalyze Innovation in Materials Design 
  • DOD – Army Research Lab SBIR Phase I: Identification of Material Damage Precursors using Novel Nondestructive Evaluation and/or Structural Health Monitoring Hardware:  
  • DOD – Army Research Lab SBIR, Phase I and II: Microstructural Characterization of Thermo-Mechanically Fatigued Superalloys 
  • DOD – Army Research Lab STTR, Phase I: Mechanochemical Sensing and Self-Healing Solution to Detecting Damage in Composite Structures  
  • DOD – Army Research Office: A Hybrid Optimization Procedure for Post-Crushing Response and Energy Absorption of Composite Structures:  
  • DOD – Army Research Office: A Stochastic Approach to Structural Health Monitoring of Advanced Composites 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: Characterization and Detection of Delamination in Smart Composite Structures 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: Damage Characterization, Structural Health Monitoring and Residual Life Prediction of Advanced Composites 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: Investigation of Simultaneous Reduction of Vibration and Flutter of Adaptive Composite Rotor Blades 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: Modeling and Analysis of Composites Using Smart Materials and Optimization Techniques 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: Multifunctional Thermoset Polymer Matrix with Self-Sensing and Self-Healing Capabilities 
  • DOD – Army Research Office: URAP: A Stochastic Approach to Structural Health Monitoring of Advanced Composites 
  • DOD – NAVAIR: Self-sensing Adhesive for Monitoring Composite Bonded Joints 
  • DOD – Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) STTR, Phase II: Multiscale Modeling of K-Cor Sandwich Sections 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research: A Multiscale Formulation of Damage initiation and Evolution in Composite Bonded Joints 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research: A Multiscale Modeling Approach to Predict the Behavior of Nanocomposite Structures 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research DURIP: Length Scale Effects on Progressive Damage 
  • DOD – Office of Naval Research SBIR: Novel Approaches to Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) for Bond Line Assessment 
  • Honeywell Aerospace: Composite Fan Containment Housing SLP & SLP/PLP Bond Testing & Characterization 
  • Honeywell International, Inc.: Modeling of Ultrasonic Guided Waves in Metal and Composite Materials 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: An Enhanced Multiobjective Optimization Procedure 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: An Integrated Approach to Structural Health Monitoring 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: An Integrated Optimum Design Approach for High Speed Prop-Rotors Including Acoustic Constraints 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: ASTAR Fellowship: High-Fidelity Modeling and Analysis of Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites Subjected to Impact/Dynamic Loading 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Development of a Continuous and Discrete Approaches for Aerodynamic Sensitivity Analysis 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Development of a Composite Tailoring Procedure for Airplane Wing 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Development of a Composite Tailoring Procedure for Investigating Tilt Rotor Blade Aeroelastic Stability 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Development of Sonic Boom Optimization Procedure Using Multiobjective Formulation Technique 
  • NASA AMES Research Center: Machine Learning Methods and Applications to Composites and Other Mechanical Systems 
  • NASA Glenn Research Center/AlliedSignal Inc.: Cooled Turbine Airfoil Multidisciplinary Optimization 
  • NASA Langley Research Center: A Nonlinear Theory for Smart Composite Structures 
  • NASA Langley Research Center: Development and Installation of Modeling Tool for Structures Containing Piezoelectric Materials 
  • NASA Langley Research Center: Development of Comprehensive Modeling Techniques for Smart Composite Structures
  • NASA Langley Research Center: Modeling of Composite Wing Sections for Improved Aeroelastic and Vibration Characteristics Using Smart Materials 
  • NASA Glenn Research Center: An Integrated Vehicle Health Management approach to Heterogeneous Structural Systems 
  • NASA Glenn Research Center: High Velocity Impact of Composite Structures 
  • NASA Langley Research Center: Coupled Nonlinear Aero-Thermo-Elastic Analysis for Aerospace Application  
  • NASA Langley Research Center: Health Monitoring of Heterogeneous Structures 
  • National Science Foundation: A Nonlinear Sensitivity Analysis Procedure for Composites under Large Deformation 
  • National Science Foundation: EAGER – Stress Sensitive Smart Particles for Investigating Damage Initiation in Polymer Composites 
  • National Science Foundation: Investigation of Embedded Sensing Architecture for Damage Detection 
  • Pipe Reconstruction Inc.: Damage Tolerant Design for Safer Structures 
  • Pipe Reconstruction, Inc.: Viscoelastic and Fracture Behavior of Polymer Matrix Composite Laminates for Pipe Coatings, Repair, and Rehabilitations Structures 
  • ZONA Technologies: Feasibility Studies of Active Flutter Suppression and Aeroelastic Instability Control Using Smart Structure