Materials and Manufacturing
- Shape memory alloys
- Plasticity
- Metal Fatigue
- Near Net Shape Manufacturing (Squeeze Casting, Thixoforming)
- Formability of Sheet Metals
- Microwave Sintering of Ceramics
- Processing and Properties of Metal Matrix Composites and Metallic Foams
- Processing and Properties of Polymer Matrix Composites
- Shape Memory Alloys
- Materials for Biomedical Applications (Hydroxyapatite, Ti)
- Modification of Surface Properties Through Coating
- Electrochemical Materials
- Nonlinear Analysis
- Constitutive/Computational Mechanics
- Multiscale Multiphysics
- Experimental Mechanics
- Micromechanics
- Crystal plasticity
- Full-field strain measurement
- In situ microscopy
- High specific-strength metals
- Residual stresses
- Amorphous metals
- Diffraction measurements of strain
- Solar Energy
- Materials Characterization
- Nanotechnology
- Deep learning
Molecular Modeling
Polymer Science
Biomaterials
Bioinspired systems
- 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
- Railways Switches and Crossings
- Fracture Mechanics
- Peridynamics
- Finite Element Method
- Composites design and manufacturing
- Structural optimization
- Modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes
- Analysis of structures by finite elements
- Design and fabrication of nanodevices for biological, chemical, and optical sensing applications
- Wide bandgap semiconductor electronic/photonic devices
- Nanobiotechnology
- Plasmonics
- Self-powered and sustainable devices
- Nanowire-based flexible and wearable sensors
