Clifford Butcher
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Fracture
- Formability
- Plasticity
- Micromechanics
- Computational Mechanics
- Automotive Metal Forming & Crash Simulations
- Advanced/Ultra High Strength Steels
- Aluminum alloys
- Magnesium alloys
- Warm Forming & Hot Stamping
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization, Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Jack Callaghan
Professor, Kinesiology
Research Expertise
- Lower back pain and injury
Centre of Research Expertise for the Preventative of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD)
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Group(s):
Connected and Autonomous→Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS); Structure and Safety→Occupant Protection, Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Duane Cronin
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Automotive crash and occupant simulation
- Automotive crashworthiness
- High-rate materials characterization
- Impact biomechanics
- Pipeline integrity
- Trauma prediction
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Joining; Structure and Safety→Occupant Protection, Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Kyle Daun
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Combustion diagnostics and nanoparticle metrology
- Gas/surface scattering
- Inverse analysis and optimal design of heat transfer systems
- Molecular gas dynamics
- Thermal radiation heat transfer
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Casting, Forming, Materials and Processing; Powertrain and Emissions→Emissions Control; Structure and Safety→Structural Crashworthiness; A to D profiles
Adrian Gerlich
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Friction stir welding and processing, roll bonding, overlay welding
- Materials characterization of light alloys, steels, and metal matrix composites using quantitative electron microscopy
- Physical metallurgy of welded components
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Materials and Processing; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization; E to H profiles
Glenn Heppler
Professor, System Design Engineering
Research Expertise
- Dynamics and Control of Structures
- Non linear structural dynamics
- Micropolar materials modeling
- Composite materials
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Component Structures; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization; E to H profiles
Kaan Inal
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- High performance computing – parallel computing
- Instabilities and localized deformation phenomena in materials
- Metal formability
- Micromechanics, crystal plasticity
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Structural Crashworthiness; I to M profiles
Hamidreza Jahed Motlagh
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Cyclic plasticity
- Fatigue failure analysis and fatigue life prediction
- Finite deformation
- Mechanical testing of micro- and submicron specimens, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Modelling, analysis and design of materials under inelastic and cyclic loadings
- Multi-axial fatigue of magnesium alloys
- Residual stresses
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Fatigue; I to M profiles
Amir Khajepour
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Active vehicle stability
- Advanced vehicle systems
- Air-gas hybrid engine
- Complex hydraulic and vehicle dynamic systems modelling for articulated vehicles
- Configuration and power management control strategies for electric and electric-gas hybrid
- Embedded suspension systems
- Engine and body mounting systems (Passive and Active)
- Noise, Vibration and Harshness (NVH)
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Group(s):
Connected and Autonomous→Automated Driving, Vehicle Control; Powertrain and Emissions→Powertrain Systems, Power Electronics; Software and Data→Multi-disciplinary Optimization; Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH); I to M profiles
Fue-Sang Lien
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Aoerdynamics and Aeroaucoustics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Flow visualization and animation
- Turbulence Modeling
- Wind Engineering and Dispersion
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Group(s):
Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH); I to M profiles
John Montesano
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
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Long-term durability of lightweight composites
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Fatigue and creep failure
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Impact of composite structures
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Damage mechanics and constitutive modeling
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Micromechanics
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Non-destructive evaluation (NDE)
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Component Structures, Composites and Polymers; Software and Data→Modelling and Design; Structure and Safety→Fatigue, Material Characterization, Structural Crashworthiness; I to M profiles
Sriram Narasimhan
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Expertise
- Modal Analysis
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Identification and Control
- Vibration based Signal Processing
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Group(s):
Connected and Autonomous→Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH), Structural Crashworthiness; N to S profiles
Armaghan Salehian
Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Continuum modeling, vibration analysis and modal testing
- Smart materials
- Wave propagation in composite materials
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Group(s):
Connected and Autonomous→Vehicle Control; Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH); N to S profiles
Beth Weckman
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Development of improved diagnostic techniques for use in reacting and non-reacting flows
- Reacting turbulent flows: fires and fire modeling, pool fire research
- Stability considerations in turbulent flows
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Group(s):
Structure and Safety→Occupant Protection; T to Z profiles
Michael Worswick
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- High strain rate material behaviour
- Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness
- Sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming
- Structural crashworthiness
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material Characterization, Structural Crashworthiness; T to Z profiles
Serhiy Yarusevych
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
- Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Flow and Noise Control
- Fluid Structure Interactions
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Group(s):
Powertrain and Emissions→Flow Analysis; Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH); T to Z profiles
Norman Zhou
Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Research Expertise
- Diffusion brazing
- Laser and resistance welding
- Microjoining: wire bonding, laser and resistance microwelding, soldering, etc.
- Nanojoining and nanofabrication
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Group(s):
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Joining, Multi-memory Materials; Structure and Safety→Corrosion; T to Z profiles
