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Research website of the SMART Lab at Texas A&M University.

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Projects


Current Projects

  • NASA MIRO, “Inflatable Deployable Environments and Adaptive Space Systems (IDEAS2) Center”
  • NASA, “Supersonic Flight Test Design Study and Planning for Adaptive Geometries and LIDAR”
  • AFRL, “Impact Welding and Phase Change Enabled Sealing for High-Temperature Metal-Composite Interfaces”
  • AFOSR, “Redox Mediation in Hybrid Electrodes for Low Temperature Batteries”
  • NSF, “REU Site: 3D Printing of NextGen Multifunctional Batteries”
  • ACC-APG, “Batch-wise Improvement in Reduced Materials Design Space using Holistic Optimization Techniques (BIRDSHOT)”
  • DoE, “National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia – Dynamics Homogenization”

Past Projects

  • NASA ULI, “Adaptive Aerostructures for Revolutionary Civil Supersonic Transportation”
  • NSF, “Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Advanced Materials Manufacturing and Discovery for Extreme Environments (CAM2DE2)”
  • AFOSR, “Unified Theory and Experimentation for Fatigue and Fracture of High-Temperature Shape Memory Alloys”
  • QNRF, “Vibration Monitoring and Suppression in Oil and Gas Piping Systems using a Novel Concept combining Shape Memory Alloy and Metamaterial inspired Structures”
  • AFOSR, “Aramid Nanofiber-Functionalized Graphene Electrodes for Structural Load-Bearing Energy Storage”
  • NSF, “REU Site: Multifunctional Materials”
  • S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Morphological and Interfacial Effects in Aramid-Graphene Composites for Structural Energy and Power”
  • NSF, “Student Support for 4th International Summer School on Advanced Material Systems (AMS) – Processing – Characterization – Modeling, July 1-7, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece”
  • NASA, “University Leadership Initiative on Adaptive Aerostructures for Revolutionary Civil Supersonic Transportation”
  • S. Air Force Research Laboratory, “AFRL/TAMU Data-Enabled Discovery and Design of Materials (D3M)”
  • S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Multi-Material Bulk Deposition and Characterization System for Accelerated Materials Discovery and Design”
  • S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Aramid Nanofiber- Functionalized Graphene Electrodes for Structural Energy and Power”
  • S. Steel Tubular Products, Inc., “Unconventional Well Casing Failures: Quantifying the Problem, Establishing Failure Mechanisms and Understanding Risk Factors”
  • NSF, “REU Site: Multifunctional Materials”
  • NSF, “DMREF: Accelerating the Development of High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys”
  • S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Actuation- Induced Failure of High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys”
  • QNRF, “Fluid-Structure Interaction of Elastic Shells for Aerospace and Biomedical Applications- Cycle 7”
  • Army Research Lab, “Damping Modulation in Nanocomposites”
  • Boeing Company, “Tensile and torque Tube Fatigue Characterization of NiTiHf High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys”
  • Aramco Services Company, “Hydraulic Fracturing with Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Proppants: A Feasibility Study”
  • NSF, “Fracture Mechanics in the Presence of Reversible Martensitic Transformation in High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys”
  • Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., “Minority Leaders Program: Materials and Manufacturing Nanotechnology Research”
  • Sandia National Laboratories: Texas A&M Excellence in Engineering Research Program.
  • NSF, “EFRI-OSISSEI: Synthesizing Complex Structures from Programmable Self-Folding Active Materials”
  • Boeing Company, “Shape Memory Alloy Fatigue”
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Nano-Precipitation Hardened High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys with Dimensional and Thermal Stability”
  • NSF, “REU Site: Aerospace Engineering Research Opportunities for Undergraduates”
  • Weber Aircraft LLC, “Implementation of SMAs into Aircraft Seating _ Phase 1: Headrest”
  • Boeing Company, “Improved SMA Actuators”
  • Boeing Company, “Conformal Moldline Link (CML) Modeling Using ABAQUS (Follow-On)”
  • Northrop Grumman, “Unmanned Air System Departure Resistance Using nonlinear Two-time Scale Tracking Control”
  • Sandia National Laboratories, “Educational Institution Contract with Texas A&M University”
  • Boeing Company, “Active Spar Finite Element Analysis Support”
  • Boeing Company, “Conformal Moldline Link (CML) Modeling Using ABAQUS”
  • Boeing Company, “Improved SMA Actuators”
  • Boeing Company, “Texas A&M University eMAR Active Spar FEA Analysis”
  • Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., “Minority Leaders: Sensors Technical Thrust – Task Order 0017 Materials and Manufacturing Exploration in Support of Air Force Systems and Applications”
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “(DURIP 10) Acquisition of Mechanically Assisted Spark Plasma Sintering System for Advanced Research and Education on Functionally Graded Hybrid Materials”
  • Tenaris, “Shape Memory Alloy Pipe Couplers”
  • Schlumberger, Inc., “Characterization of Shape Memory Alloy Actuator for Oil Industry Applications”
  • Lynntech, Inc., “High Energy Density Capacitors for Pulsed Power Systems”
  • NSF, “REU Site: Multifunctional Materials Systems”
  • NSF, “U.S. – Turkey Workshop on Shape Memory Alloys: Current Challenges and Future Prospect, June 2010, at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey”
  • Boeing Company, “Large Tube and High Torque Test Bed (HTTB) Modeling Using ABAQUS and UMATs”
  • Boeing Company, “Analysis of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Test Data and Characterization of SMA Test Specimens”
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling of Functionally Graded Multifunctional Hybrid Composites for Extreme Environments (MURI)”
  • Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., “Materials and Manufacturing Research”
  • Boeing Company, “Modeling of SMA Actuated Trailing Edge Devices”
  • NSF-IIMEC: “International Institute for Multifunctional Materials for Energy Conversion (IIMEC)”
  • Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., “Materials and Manufacturing Research”
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Electromagnetically Tunable Fluids”
  • NSF-I/UCRC: “Establishment of a Site on SMA-Research Technologies (SMA-RT) as part of OSU-SVC”
  • NSF-NIRT: Hierarchical Manufacturing and Modeling for Phase Transforming Active Nanostructures
  • Boeing Aerospace & Electronics, “A Comprehensive Analysis of the Thermomechanical Fatigue Behavior for 60-NiTi Shape Memory Alloy”
  • US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Shape Memory Alloy for Vibration Isolation and Damping of Large-Scale Space Structures”
  • NASA Shared Services Center, “Multi-Scale Modeling and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Multi-Functional Composites as New Lightweight, Durable Materials for Improved Subsonic, Fixed-Wing Vehicle Performance”
  • NASA Glenn Research Center, “Thermomechanical Processing and Modelling of High Temperature SMAs for Multifunctional Engine Components – NRA/”Research Opportunities in Aeronautics – 2006”
  • Clarkson Aerospace, Inc., “Materials and Manufacturing Research”
  • National Science Foundation, “Thermo-Mechanically Enhanced Interfaces with Multifunctional Nanoparticles”
  • Toyon Research Corporation, “Microfluidic Systems for Reconfigurable RF Surfaces and Systems”
  • Army Research Office, “Magnetic Field-Induced Phase Transformation in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys with High Actuation Stress and Work Output”
  • Schlumberger, “Characterization of High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys (HTSMAs) for Oil Exploration Applications”
  • NSF-IGERT, “New Mathematical Tools for Next Generation Materials”
  • S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), “New Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys with High Actuation Force for Sensing and Power Generation”
  • DOD-Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, “Reversible Control of Anisotropic Electrical Conductivity Using Colloidol Microfluidic Networks”
  • AFRL – Clarkson Aerospace, “Materials and Manufacturing Research”
  • NSF-REU Site, “Nanotechnology and Materials Systems”
  • NSF MRI, “Acquisition of a Combined Raman and Infrared Microscope with Nano-scale Spatial Resolution”
  • NSF IMR, “Acquisition of a State-of-the-Art X-Ray Diffraction System for Magneto-Thermo-Mechanical Materials Characterization Research and Education”
  • Schlumberger, “High Temperature SMA’s for Oil Exploration Applications”
  • Sandia National Laboratories, “Analytical Micromechanical Modeling”
  • S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF), “Iron and Cobalt Base Structural Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Single and Textured Polycrystals with High Actuation Force”
  • S. Department of Education, “GAAN: Interdisciplinary Fellowships for Nanotechnology, Materials and Sensors”
  • NASA-University Research and Engineering Institute, “Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles”
  • National Science Foundation, “US-Germany Research Collaboration: Bridging Length Scales in Deforming Single and Textured Polycrystals of Structural Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys”
  • Army Research Office-DURIP, “Magnetic Thermo Mechanical (MTM) Testing System for Characterization of Magnetic Shape Memory Materials”
  • Army Research Office, “Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys with High Actuation Forces”
  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board-Advanced Research Projects, “Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuators”
  • Army Research Office-DARPA, “Highly Compact Shape Memory Alloy Actuators”
  • Boeing, “Thermomechanical Characterization of Large Force-Displacement Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) Actuators”
  • National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Louisiana Partnership, NASA, “Prediction of Microcracking Induced Permeability of Cryogenic Composite Tanks”
  • National Science Foundation, “Development of an Integrated Multidisciplinary Curriculum for Intelligent Systems”
  • National Science Foundation, “Microscale Processing of Multifunctional Materials”
  • NASA Langley Research Center, “Active Skin for Turbulent Drag Reduction”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Fatigue Life and Dynamic Response of SMA Actuators”
  • Air Force Research Laboratory, Syndetix, Inc., “Feasibility of Pseudoelastic Nitinol as Nonlinear Isolator”
  • National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Louisiana Partnership, NASA, “Prediction of Microcracking Induced Permeability of Cryogenic Composite Tanks”
  • National Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Louisiana Partnership, NASA, “Characterization of Electron Beam Curing of Composites”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Workshop on Research and Applications of Active Materials and Smart Structures”
  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board -Technology Development and Transfer Program, “Smart Structures Technologies in Industrial Environments”
  • Office of Naval Research, “Dynamic Behavior and Shock Absorption Properties of Porous Shape Memory Alloys”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Active Materials Characterization Laboratory”
  • Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board-Advanced Technology Program, “Development of Enabling Technologies for Reconfigurable Uninhabited Air Vehicles”
  • Bell Helicopter Textron, “Modeling of Stresses and Deformation Patterns in Thick Composite Laminates”
  • Office of Naval Research – STTR Program, Phase II, “Application of Active Materials and Neural Networks to Aquatic Biomimetics”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Thermomechanical Modeling and Experimentation for SMA Actuators Under Cyclic Loading”
  • Office of Naval Research, “Nonlinear Active Control of External Fluid Flows”
  • National Science Foundation – Foundation Coalition, “Restructuring of the Sophomore Engineering Curriculum”
  • Office of Naval Research, “Design and Implementation of a Smart Flap Assisted Control Surface (SFACS)”
  • Army Research Office (European Branch), “Simulation of Dislocation and Transformation Plasticity in Shape Memory Alloys”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, AASERT Grant on “Micromechanism Based Modeling of Metal Matrix Composites”
  • Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., “Development of Viscoelastic Constitutive Model for IM7/8552 Composite”
  • Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., “Loss Tangent Stabilization of SMA-Elastomeric Composite Dampers”
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research, “Micromechanism Based Modeling of Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Thermal Transients”
  • Office of Naval Research, “Design of High-Frequency SMA Actuators”
  • Army Research Office, AASERT Grant on “Constitutive Modeling of Shape Memory Alloys (SMA) for Structural Applications”
  • Army Research Office ‑ University Research Initiative Program, “Interdisciplinary Basic Research in Smart Materials and Structures”
  • National Science Foundation, “Computing Across the Basic Sciences”
  • National Science Foundation, “Undergraduate Course Development in Engineering: Mechanics and Linear Algebra”
  • Defense Advanced Research Project Agency ‑ University Research Initiative Program, “Mechanism-Based Design of Composite Structures”
  • Lilly Endowment, Inc., “Development of Undergraduate Civil Engineering Course ‑ Applied Solid Mechanics”
  • Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, “Further Development of 20.1100 Intro to Engineering Analysis, A Course in the Engineering Pilot Program”
  • Army ‑ Watervliet Arsenal, “Micromechanics of Composite Materials Using Averaging Techniques”
  • National Science Foundation, “Damage Evolution Based on Distributed and localized Changes of Microstructure,” NSF Research Initiation Award Grant No. MSS‑9109184.
  • Engineering Foundation, “Compression Strength of Composite Laminates,” Air Force Engineering Foundation Grant RI‑B‑90‑7.

 

 

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