Automotive Engineering

  • Elasticity of Nonhomogeneous Media and Functionally Graded Materials
  • Fracture Mechanics
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Mechanical Vibrations, Nonlinear Vibrations
  • Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • Renewable energy systems
  • Reactive flows
  • Internal combustion engines
  • Radiation heat transfer
  • 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
  • Autonomous/cooperative vehicles; advanced driver assistance systems; powertrain control, automotive control
  • Dynamics and control; networked/distributed control systems; hybrid systems; model predictive control;
  • Object tracking, sensor fusion, localization, motion planning and control algorithms for mobile robots;
  • Hardware-in-the-loop testing; rapid control prototyping; mechatronic system architecting