Design
- Additive Manufacturing
- Crashing Behaviour of Composite Structures
- Wind Energy Applications, design, analysis and manufacturing of composite wind turbine blades
- Manufacturing and mechanical properties of nanocomposites, filled and reinforced engineering plastics and rubber.
- Characterization of plastic materials (cure kinetics and crystallization using DSC, DTMA) for process modeling.
- Processing of advanced fiber reinforced composites and nanocomposites
- Modeling and Measurement of Residual Stresses
- Finite element modeling of thermoplastic and thermoset composites processing including heat transfer, crystallization/curing, material response, shrinkage, residual stress development and warpage
- Fatigue and fracture of metallic materials
- Elastic-plastic modeling of cyclic loading in metals.
- Road simulation testing of automotive components and substructures
- Design and control of thermal and energy systems
- Nanotechnology in energy applications
- Thermal management of opto/electronic systems
- Inverse problems of thermal design and sensing
- Composites design and manufacturing
- Structural optimization
- Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes
- Analysis of structures by finite elements
- Multi-body dynamics
- Vibrations and acoustics, vibration isolation systems
- Phononic band gap structures, elastic metamaterials
- Passive anti-resonance generation methods
- Design of displacement amplifiers and motion converters
