Graduate Students and Visiting Professors

Former Graduate Students

C.R. Chiang -- Ph.D. 1983

• Thesis: Micromechanical Determination of Polycrystal Plasticity, and Some Considerations of Composite Elasticity
• Current Affiliation: National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

G.P. Tandon -- M.S. 1984 & Ph.D. 1986

• M.S. Thesis: The Influence of Filler Shape on the Elastic Properties of Composites
• Ph.D. Thesis: Micromechanical Determination of the Elasticity and Plasticity of Composites
• Current Affiliation: University of Dayton Research Center, OH

Z.G. Zhu -- Ph.D. 1988

• Thesis: Micromechanics of Time-Dependent Deformation in Polycrystalline Metals and Composites
• Current Affiliation: General Motors Research & Development Center, MI

Y.P. Qiu -- Ph.D. 1990

• Thesis: Theory of Inclusions in the Elastic and Elastic-Plastic Deformation of Composite Materials
• Current Affiliation: Sonoco Products Company, WI

Y.M. Wang -- Ph.D. 1991

• Thesis: Micromechanics of Creep Deformation of Two-Phase Composites and Porous Materials
• Current Affiliation: Sonoco Products Company, WI

H.H. Pan -- Ph.D. 1992

• Thesis: A Class of Inclusion Problems for the Strengthening of Brittle and Ductile Composites
• Current Affiliation: National Kaohsiung Unisersity of Applied Science, Taiwan

K.M. Murali -- Ph.D. 1993

• Thesis: Unified Constitutive Modeling of Creep and Plasticity of Metals and Metal-Matrix Composites
• Current Affiliation: General Motors Research & Development Center, Warren, MI

A. Bhattacharyya -- Ph.D. 1994

• Thesis: Plasticity and Stress-Induced Phase Transformation in Dual-Phase Systems
• Current Affiliation: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR

Scott Slifer -- M.S. 1995

• Thesis: Cyclic Behavior of Viscoelastic Composites with Aligned Inclusions
• Current Affiliation: US Army Research & Development Center, NJ

Jackie Li -- Ph.D. 1995

• Thesis: Viscoelasticity & Viscoplasticity of a Class of Composites
• Current Affiliation: The City College of New York
  

Dimas Camacho -- M.S. 1996

• Thesis: A Description of Hygrothermal Effects on Composite Materials
• Current Affiliation: Intel Corporation, NM

S. Govindarajan -- Ph.D. 1997

• Thesis: An Experimental and Theoretical Study of Creep in Woven Polymer Composites (jointly with Prof. N.A. Langrana)
• Current Affiliation: General Electric Company, WI
  

Zikun Lu -- Ph.D. 1997

• Thesis: Micromechanics of Single Crystal and Polycrystal Shape Memory Alloys
• Current Affiliation: Ford Motor Company, MI
  

Ke Ding -- Ph.D. 1998

• Thesis: Plasticity with a Ductile Interphase and Elasticity with a Linearly Graded Matrix Property in Particle and Fiber-Reinforced Composites
• Current Affiliation: Ford Motor Company, MI

Shanfu Zheng -- Ph.D. 2000

• Thesis: The Effect of Interphase and Interfacial Cracks on the Elastic and Elastoplastic Behavior of Fiber-Reinforced Composites (jointly with Prof. M. Denda)
• Current Affiliation: Google, NYC

Yu Su -- Ph.D. 2003

• Thesis: Constitutive Relations of Ferroelectric Ceramics
• Current Affiliation: Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Nitin Srivastava -- M.S. 2004

• Thesis: A Micromechanical Model for the Hysteresis and Double Hysteresis Behavior of Ferroelectric Crystals

Pallab Barai -- M.S. 2008

• Thesis: Creep Resistance and Strain-Rate Sensitivity of Nanocrystalline Mat\ erials

Yang Wang -- Ph.D. 2016

• Thesis: A Micromechanics Study on Carbon-Based and Multiferroic Composites

Jia Hao -- M.E. 2016

• Thesis: Electrical Conductivity of Highly Aligned Graphene-Polymer Nanocomposites

Roohollah Hashemi -- Ph.D. 2017

• Thesis: Multiscale Constitutive Modeling of Graphene-Based and Multiferroic Composites

Han Du -- Ph.D. 2023

• Thesis: Filler Agglomeration, Segregated CNT Structure, Field-Driven Graphene Rotation, and Pressure Sensing in Graphene- and CNT-Nanocomposites

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Visiting Professors

T. Sakaki (1989)

• Plastic Anisotropy of Sheet Metals
• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan

Y.H. Zhao (1987-89; 1994-95; 2000)

• Micromechanics and Damage of Composite Materials
• Dept. of Civil Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China

Cewen Nan (1999)

• Electrostriction and Magnetostriction of Heterogeneous Materials
• Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Wenfang Li (2000)

• Micromechanics of Ferroelectric Ceramics
• Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, South China University and Technology, Guangzhou, China

Chunyu Li (2000)

• Fracture Mechanics of Functionally Graded Materials
• Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Shijiazhuang Railway Institute, Hebei, China

Bing Jiang (2002-03)

• Micromechanics of Nanocrystalline Materials
• Dept. of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Xiaodong Xia (2015-17)

• Electrical conductivity, dielectric cosntant, and electromagnetic interfere\ nce shielding of graphene-polymer nanocomposites
• Visiting Ph.D. student from School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Chao Fang (2018-19)

• Grain structure, nanodomain, and size effects of ferroelectric ceramics
• Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Wuhan Polytechnic University, Wuhan, China

Juanjuan Zhang (2018-19)

• Micromechanics and phase field simulations of magnetostrictive/ferroelectric composites
• Dept. of Mechanics and Enggineering Science, Lanzhozu University, Lanzhou, China

Jie Wang (2018-2020)

• Thermal Conductivity of Graphene and CNT Nanocomposites
• Dept. of Mechanics, School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

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