RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Current Funded R&D Projects

• M 4 Aluminum Joining Technology, D.P. Sekulic, PI, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, 2005 – 2007; Total funds ($90, 969)
• Advanced Heat Exchangers R&D, D.P. Sekulic, PI (Co. PI M. Khraisheh), Caterpillar, 2005-2006; Total funds $ 106,799;
• Advanced Heat Exchangers R&D, D.P. Sekulic PI, 2007-2008 $ 85,000 (PI D.P. Sekulic).
• Advanced Heat Exchangers – Proof of the Concept Study (PI D.P. Sekulic), $9,500

Pending Projects

• Theory of Spreading over Topologically Complex Surfaces During Materials Processing, NSF , PI D.P. Sekulic, $ 255, 072
• Affordable Manufacturing for Compact Hybrid Carbon Liquid/Air Heat Exchanger, SBIR AF701-119, DoD, $ 99,830.40 Subcontract, D.P. Sekulic, Co-PI

Recent R&D Projects

• Metal Foam Enhanced Heat Exchanger – Analysuis of Joint Formation , Caterpillar, (PI D.P. Sekulic), $ 10,700 , 2006-2007
• Brazing Feasibility Study, Senior Operations, (PI D.P. Sekulic,), $ 2,000, 2006
• Hot Stage Visualization of the Brazing Cycle w/o New Coating Options, DELPHI, HTS ($ 4,500), 2007
• Innovative Approach to Materials Joining in a Microwave Field, P.I. D.P. Sekulic, Co-PI F. Yang, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, 2004 – 2005 (Total funds $ 15,000).
• A New Brazing Flux made of K xF yAl z System, P.I. D.P. Sekulic, (May 2005 – September 2005) KB Alloys Inc. (Total funds $ 15,000)
• The hot stage microscopic study of the melting/spreading behavior of several K xF yAl x systems, (P.I. D.P. Sekulic) UK-CM 3238 (March 2005) KB Alloys Inc. (Total funds $ 2,000).
• Exergo Environomic Synthesis of Advanced Manufacturing Processes, Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation, P.I. D.P. Sekulic, 2003 – 2004, (Total funds $15,000).
• Modeling of Joint Formation in Aluminum Brazing – Behavior and Control of Molten Cladding – (extended and supplemented 1999-2003.) PI – D.P. Sekulic (Co-Principal Investigators A.T. Male and J.G. Morris) Total funds for three years (1999-2002) $283,669 + $ 146,340 (cost sharing part). (NSF DMII – Materials Processing and Manufacturing Program director Dr. Delcie Durham)
• NSF Travel grant (PI D.P. Sekulic) German Aerospace Center, Cologne and Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Summer 2002, Supplemental funds $ 6,939
• Brazing Sheet Development & Continuous Casting Al Brazing Sheet – Commonwealth Aluminum – Louisville, KY & Uhrchsville OH (1999-2003). PI – D.P. Sekulic. ($51,000). Monitor: Dr. Zhong Li, Manager of the New Product Research, Commonwealth Aluminum – Newport Rolling Mill, OH. u Optimum Cladding Distribution and Brazed Joint Formation – Gen II HTC-GMT800, DELPHI Harrison Thermal Systems, Lockport, NY (1999-2000); PI – D.P. Sekulic. ($60,000.)
• Silicon Diffusion Across Clad-Core Interface of an Aluminum Brazing Sheet, DOE in cooperation with High Temperature Materials Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN (P.I. D.P. Sekulic) A user program grant, 2000-2002).
• Analysis of Brazeability and Molten Cladding Flowability, Pechiney Rolled Products, Ravenswood, WV. Total funds US $ 11,500. (2001 – 2002). Monitor Dr. Zayna Connor.

NOTE: Numerous earlier projects (D.P. Sekulic as a PI or CoPI), sponsored by US and foreign foundations (US DOE, DAAD, KFA, Germany and NSF’s in Yugoslavia) and industry, are not listed here; for some details see the list of Research Project Reports.