Our People - Structural crashworthiness

callagha@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37080
Location: 
BMH 3122
Research Expertise
  • Lower back pain and injury

Centre of Research Expertise for the Preventative of Musculoskeletal Disorders (CRE-MSD)

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Connected and Autonomous→Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS); Structure and Safety→Occupant protection, Structural crashworthiness; A to D profiles
dscronin@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x32682
Location: 
EC4 1157
Research Expertise
  • Automotive crash and occupant simulation
  • Automotive crashworthiness
  • High-rate materials characterization
  • Impact biomechanics
  • Pipeline integrity
  • Trauma prediction

Impact Mechanics & Material Characterization Group

​Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Joining; Structure and Safety→Occupant protection, Structural crashworthiness; A to D profiles
kjdaun@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x37871
Location: 
E3 2133J
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

Inverse Problems in Combustion and Heat Transfer

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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Casting, Forming, Materials and processing; Powertrain and Emissions→Emissions control; Structure and Safety→Structural crashworthiness; A to D profiles
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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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming, Materials and processing; Structure and Safety→Material characterization, Structural crashworthiness; E to H profiles
kinal@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38114
Location: 
EC4 1103
Research Expertise
  • High performance computing – parallel computing
  • Instabilities and localized deformation phenomena in materials
  • Metal formability
  • Micromechanics, crystal plasticity
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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Structural crashworthiness; 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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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
snarasim@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38081
Location: 
E2 2325
Research Expertise
  • Modal Analysis
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Structural Identification and Control
  • Vibration based Signal Processing

The Structural Dynamics, Control & Identification Group

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Connected and Autonomous→Transportation systems; Structure and Safety→Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH), Structural crashworthiness; N to S profiles
mawells@uwaterloo.ca
519-888-4567 x38356
Location: 
E5 3034
Research Expertise
  • Boiling water heat transfer
  • Casting of light metals
  • Hot deformation of metallic materials
  • Microstructure/processing models
  • Process modelling
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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Casting, Forming, Materials and processing; Structure and Safety→Structural crashworthiness; T to Z 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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Lightweighting and Fabrication→Forming; Structure and Safety→Material characterization, Structural crashworthiness; T to Z profiles