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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

Waterloo Forming and Crash Lab

Link to profile: Clifford Butcher

Duane Cronin

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
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

Link to profile: Duane Cronin

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
Link to profile: Kyle Daun

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

Centre for Advanced Materials Joining (CAMJ)

Link to profile: Adrian Gerlich

Glenn Heppler

Professor, System Design Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Dynamics and Control of Structures
  • Non linear structural dynamics
  • Micropolar materials modeling
  • Composite materials
Link to profile: Glenn Heppler

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

Computational Mechanics Research Group

Link to profile: Kaan Inal

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

Fatigue and Stress Analysis Lab

Link to profile: Hamidreza Jahedmotlagh

Amir Khajepour

Professor, Director of the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research (WatCAR)

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)

WATonoBus

Mechatronic Vehicles Systems Laboratory

Link to profile: Amir Khajepour

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
Link to profile: Fue-Sang Lien

John Montesano

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

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

Link to profile: John Montesano

Sriram Narasimhan

Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Modal Analysis
  • Structural Dynamics
  • Structural Identification and Control
  • Vibration based Signal Processing

The Structural Dynamics, Control & Identification Group

Link to profile: Sriram Narasimhan

Armaghan Salehian

Associate Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Continuum modeling, vibration analysis and modal testing
  • Smart materials
  • Wave propagation in composite materials

Vibration and Energy Harvesting Laboratory

Link to profile: Armaghan Salehian

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

The University of Waterloo Fire Research Group

Link to profile: Beth Weckman

Mike Worswick

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
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

Waterloo Forming and Crash Laboratory

Link to profile: Michael Worswick

Serhiy Yarusevych

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research Expertise

  • Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics
  • Experimental and Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Flow and Noise Control
  • Fluid Structure Interactions

Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory

Link to profile: Serhiy Yarusevych

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

​Centre for Advanced Materials Joining

Link to profile: Norman Zhou