Faculty:

Hodge, Kassner, Langdon, Nutt

Reseach Areas:

1. Ultrafinegrained Materials
2. High Temperature Plasticity
3. Fundamentals of Fatigue
4. Polymer Composites
5. Creep
   • Mechanisms of Creep Plasticity
   • Intermediate Temperature Creep and Fracture of Zircaloy
6. Micromechanisms of Deformation
   • "New X-Ray Microbeam Answers 20-Year-Old Metals Question" in the NIST Tech Beat describes fine scale stress measurements in a deformed metal. NIST web site.
   • "Uncovering Secrets of the Strength of Materials" from Argonne National Lab's web site.
7. Thin Films
8. Nanomechanics

Back to top