Mechanics of Materials Lab

Mechanics of Materials Laboratory^*

Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

104 S. Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801

Tel: (217) 244 0566; Fax: (217) 244 5707

Email: kjhsia@uiuc.edu

Introduction Members Research areas Publications

Introduction

The main focus of the Mechanics of Materials Laboratory is to address some critical issues in the interdisciplinary area between mechanics and materials science. It is now increasingly realized by researchers in the mechanics community that traditional mechanics approach to mechanical behavior of materials is no longer adequate since materials are becoming extremely complicated. An understanding of the materials' microstructures and the micromechanisms is crucial to the understanding of the deformation and failure processes. On the other hand, the materials community feels a strong need to make use of the mechanics tools developed over many decades to solve materials problem at a microscopic level. The Mechanics of Materials Laboratory uses experimental, modeling, and computational tools to investigate micromechanisms of deformation and failure, develop mechanistic models, and predict material behavior under different loading conditions.

Members of the Laboratory (pictures)

Principal Investigator Professor K. Jimmy Hsia (Click here for `Academic Genealogy')	Graduate Students Scott Wilson Rouholla Alizadegan Hao Liang Johnson Samuel Tuan Tran Dan Widrevitz
Collaborators Professor Young Huang Professor John Rogers Professor Arne J. Pearlstein Professor J. K. Shang Professor M. Taher A. Saif	Alumni

Research Areas (current)

Strength and Durability of Thermal Barrier Coatings sponsored by the Critical Research Initiative	Strength and Durability of Adhesive Bonds sponsored by the US Department of Energy/Materials Research Lab
Fatigue Crack Growth under High Frequency Cyclic Loading sponsored by the National Science Foundation	Oscillatory Crack Growth in Brittle Materials

Research Areas (past)

Brittle-to-Ductile Transition sponsored by the National Science Foundation	High Temperature Failure of Ceramics sponsored by the US Department of Energy/Materials Research Lab
Surface Crack Growth under Combined Mechanical and Hydraulic Pressure Loading sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research

^*Also affiliated to the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, UIUC, Urbana, IL.

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