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
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
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
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
