Graduate Students

Current Graduate Students

Dustin Avery
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: Structure-property relationships of solid state additive manufacturing of IN625
Publications:

“Microstructure-Deformation Relationship of Additive Friction Stir-Deposited Aluminum Alloy 6061,” Materialia [in review]
“Plasticity-Damage Modeling of Strain-Rate and Temperature Dependence of AA7075-T651", Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 5:1, 105-114 (2019)
"Characterization of the Fatigue Behavior in Al-Li Alloy 2099," Materials Characterization, 151, 496-505 (2019)
“Experiments and Modeling of Fatigue Behavior of Friction Stir Welded Aluminum Lithium Alloy," Metals, 9:3, 293 (2019)
“Fatigue Behavior of Solid-State Additive Manufacturing of Inconel 625,” JOM 70, 11, 2475-2484 (2018)

Taylor Mason
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: Solid-State Additive Manufacturing High-Strenght Aluminum Alloys
Publications:

“Microstructure-Deformation Relationship of Additive Friction Stir-Deposited Aluminum Alloy 6061,” Materialia [in review]
“Plasticity-Damage Modeling of Strain-Rate and Temperature Dependence of AA7075-T651", Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 5:1, 105-114 (2019)
“Fatigue Behavior of Solid-State Additive Manufacturing of Inconel 625,” JOM, 70(11), 2475-2484 (2018)

Conner Cleek
MS Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: Solid-state additive repair of hard to weld metals
Publications:

“Fatigue of Additive Friction Stir Layer Welding of AZ31 Mg Alloy" Journal of Manufacturing Processes [in review]

Ben Rutherford
PhD Materials Science
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: Fatigue of solid state additive manufacturing of IN625

Robert Escobar
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: SPH modeling Oxide Dispersion of Solid-State Additive Manufacturing

George Stubblefield
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2020
Research: SPH Modeling of Plasticity and damage in Solid-State Additive Manufacturing

Georgina Harell
PhD Mechanical Engineering
Expected Graduation: Spring 2021
Research: Machine Learning for Process Optimization of Additive Manufacturing