Contacts

Research Expertise

• Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids and Multiphase Flows​
• Computational Methods in Engineering
• Topological optimization of structural analysis

Computational Multiphysics Research Group

5-Axis Surface Machining Lab

Personal Website

Research Expertise

• Metallurgical Transformations During Welding
• Post-weld Properties
• Improving Weld Process Robustness (increasing Manufacturability)
• Effect Of Microstructure And Mechanical Property Hetrogenity On Weld Performance
• Physical Simulation Of The Welding Process
• Weld Defect Formation
• Welding Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS)
• Dissimilar Material Welding

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ)

Research Expertise

Research Expertise

• Biomaterials design
• Biomedical Engineering
• Colloid and surface science
• Drug and gene delivery
• Interfacial Engineering
• Nanomedicine
• Nanotechnology
• Polymer and biopolymer synthesis

Biomedical Engineering and Engery Storage Group

Research Expertise

• Automotive crash and occupant simulation
• Automotive crashworthiness
• High-rate materials characterization
• Impact biomechanics
• Pipeline integrity
• Trauma prediction

Impact Mechanics & Material Characterization Group

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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

Research Expertise

• Modeling and Identification
• Optimal trajectory generation
• Precision motion control

Precision Controls Laboratory

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)

Research Expertise

• Dynamics and Control of Structures
• Non linear structural dynamics
• Micropolar materials modeling
• Composite materials

Research Expertise

• Arc Acoustics in Gas Metal Arc (GMA) welding
• Automatic end-of-arm and tool-centre-point calibration
• Autonomous Navigation Using Artificial Neural Networks
• Dynamic Seam Tracking for Robotic Welding
• Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Modelling of Human Locomotion
• Walking Wobot Welder

Research Expertise

• High performance computing – parallel computing
• Instabilities and localized deformation phenomena in materials
• Metal formability
• Micromechanics, crystal plasticity

Computational Mechanics Research Group

Fatigue and Stress Analysis Lab

Research Expertise

• Cell traction force measurement using optical sectioning techniques
• Constitutive modelling of soft bio-polymers
• Mechanical measurements using the Digital Image Correlation method
• Viscous fracture of soft materials

Research Expertise

• Electronic packaging
• Microfabrication
• Microjoining processes
• Sensor technology
• Thermosonic and ultrasonic wire bonding
• Ultrasonic Finite Element Models

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

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)

Composites Research Group

Research Expertise

• Design, mathematical modelling and computer simulation of polymer reactors
• Emulsion/solution/suspension polymerization
• On-line sensor development for polymer and latex characterization
• Optimization and computer control
• Polymer research and engineering
• Polymerization kinetics

Institute for Polymer Research

Research Expertise

• All-Speed Flow Prediction Methods
• Control-Volume-Based Finite Element Methods
• Machine Vision
• Phase-Change Energy Transport. Equation Solving for Physical Problems

Research Expertise

• Correlation of syntheses-structure-properties of polymers
• Development and evaluation of novel bioproducts for automotive applications
• Development of composite materials and leading-edge technologies in nanomaterials
• Development of polymer nanocomposites
• Fuel cell materials
• Mathematical modeling of polymerization mechanisms

Institute for Polymer Research

Research Expertise

• Additive manufacturing
• Modeling/Simulation and real-time control of metal laser additive manufacturing
• Micro-scale additive manufacturing
• Opto-mechanical dual-parameter optical sensors developed through additive manufacturing

Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab

Research Expertise

• Analysis and design of co-extrusion dies
• Analysis and on-line monitoring of polymer compounding operations
• Analysis of polymer mixing in twin screw extruders
• Chemical modification and functionalization of polymers by reactive extrusion
• Compounding of polymers for fuel cell applications
• Devulcanization of recycled rubber with supercritical carbon dioxide
• Extrusion of polymers and polymer blends with supercritical fluids
• Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of polymer processing operations
• Polymer micronization using supercritical carbon dioxide

Institute for Polymer Research

Research Expertise

• Mathematical imaging
• Diagnostically lossless medical image compression
• Fractal-based methods of analysis and approximation
• Dynamical systems and their applications

Research Expertise

Research Expertise

• High strain rate material behaviour
• Numerical simulation of vehicle crashworthiness
• Sheet metal forming and tube hydroforming
• Structural crashworthiness

Waterloo Forming and Crash Laboratory

Research Expertise

• Polymers, interfacial phenomena and surface chemistry
• Advanced coating and adhesive bonding technology
• Multifunctional "green" and "smart" materials and processes, additive manufacturing or 3D printing.

Surface Science and Bio-nanomaterials Laboratory

Research Expertise

• Diffusion brazing
• Laser and resistance welding
• Microjoining: wire bonding, laser and resistance microwelding, soldering, etc.
• Nanojoining and nanofabrication

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