Our People - Material characterization

shahrzad@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37536
Location: 
E5 3016
Research Expertise
  • Advanced multi-functional materials
  • Innovative thermo-mechanical processing methods for advanced light alloys
  • Metallic biomaterials
  • Microstructural characterization and modeling of light alloy processing
  • Phase transformations in advanced light alloys
  • Processing, characterization and properties of fine-grained, ultrafine-grained and nanostructured alloys

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

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Department profile
Group(s): 
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming, Materials and processing; Structure and Safety→Material characterization, Structural crashworthiness; E to H profiles
agerlich@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 ext38560
Location: 
E5 3036
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

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ)

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Department profile
Group(s): 
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Materials and processing; Structure and Safety→Material characterization; E to H profiles
heppler@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4648 or x84648
Location: 
E3 4109
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
cmmadhuranthakam@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x31662
Location: 
E6 5108
Research Expertise
  • Emulsion rubber
  • Microfluidics
  • ​Applied Statistics - Modeling, Design of Experiments, Parameter Estimation
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Group(s): 
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Composites and polymers; Software and Data→Modelling and design; Structure and Safety→Material characterization; I to M profiles
gmontesa@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38086
Location: 
EC4 1159
Research Expertise

  • Long-term durability of lightweight composites

  • Fatigue and creep failure

  • Impact of composite structures

  • Damage mechanics and constitutive modeling

  • Micromechanics

  • Non-destructive evaluation (NDE)

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Department profile
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
mjworswi@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x35830
Location: 
EC4 1141
Research Expertise
  • High strain rate material behaviour
  • Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness
  • Sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming
  • Structural crashworthiness

Forming and Impact Mechanics Research

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Department profile
Group(s): 
Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material characterization, Structural crashworthiness; T to Z profiles