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Research Areas
- Experimental characterization and constitutive modeling of
the deformation of advanced materials
- Materials anisotropy
- Damage and failure during deformation
- Superplasticity and superplastic forming
- Advanced metal forming operations
- Machining dynamics
- Crack initiation under mixed mode loading
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Funding
- Total $2,453,013 (PI: $1,209,223 and Co-PI: $1,243,790)
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Sponsors
- National Science Foundation
- US Department of Energy
- US Department of Education
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- General Motors Corporation
- Caterpillar Inc.
- Secat Inc.
- Kentucky Office of Energy Policy
- Arco Aluminum
- Heraeus Inc., Medical Devices Division
- The Southern Group
- Society of Manufacturing Engineering Foundation Education
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Graduate Advising (Main Advisor)
Completed
1 PhD University of Kentucky
6 M.S. University of Kentucky
Active
5 PhD Students
3 M.S. Students
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Professional
Affiliation
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)
- American Society of Metals (ASM International)
- The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society,(TMS)
- The mobility society, SAE
- Delta Omicron Kappa Leadership Honor Society
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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Professional Services
- NSF Proposal Review Panel Member , DMI, April 2003 and CMS, January 2002.
- Grand Awards Judge: 2002 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, May 2002, Louisville, KY.
- Technical Reviewer
- International Journal of Machine Tools and Manufacture (2006-present)
- ASM Journal of Engineering Materials and Performance
- Journal of Materials Science (2004-present)
- International Journal of Plasticity (2002-present)
- Metallurgical Transactions (2002-present)
- American Welding Society, WeldingJournal (2001-present)
- ASME Journal of Engineering Material and Technology (1997-present)
- ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering
- Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering (1997-present).
- Proposals Reviewer , International Copper Association
- Proposals Reviewer , City University of Hong Kong
- Proposals Reviewer, KFUPM and SABIC, Saudi Arabia.
- Proposals Reviewer . University Research Council, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
- Symposium Co-Organizer “Superplastic Forming of Aluminum and Magnesium Alloys”, 2005 ESAFORM, Cluj Napoca, Romania, April 2005.
- Symposium Organizer “Recent Trends in Constitutive Modeling of Advanced Materials”, The 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, FL, November 5-10 2000.
- Symposium CO-organizer “Mechanics, Micromechanics, and Processing of Composites and Ceramics, 35 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES98, 1998.
- Member, International Organizing/Scientific Committee of the 35 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES98, Pullman, WA, 1998.
- Member, International Organizing/Scientific Committee of the 37 th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science SES 2000, Columbia, SC, 2000.
- Session chair/co-chair , several international meetings and conferences.
- Chairperson , Industrial Relations Committee, KFUPM.
- Director, Materials Science and Manufacturing Processes Laboratories, AUS
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University and Administrative Services
- Dean-appointed Committee as external reviewer of Center for Aluminum Technology Performance in the period 1999-2005.
- Dean-appointed committee to evaluate the performance of ME Department Chair
- ME Faculty Search Committee: 3 times.
- SME Membership Consultant.
- SME Student Chapter Faculty Advisor , University of Kentucky, 2003-present.
- Served and currently serving on 10 PhD Committees and several MS Committees
- Director of ME Undergraduate Studies Committee
- Member of College of Engineering Undergraduate Studies Team
- Member of the Lab Development Committee.
- Active Faculty in the Center for Manufacturing
- Conduct frequent Co-Op debriefing
- Conducted several EIT reviews
- Served on several faculty committees at KFUPM and AUS
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Community Outreach
- Established partnership with Lexington Children’s Museum to design and build interactive displays for young children to promote science and engineering
- Active participant in E-day and students recruiting efforts.
- Delivered an invited talk to the SME local chapter
- Hosted the SME local chapter for a tour in the Center’s laboratories
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