航空航天工程哲学博士-结构力学与材料

该研究小组试图了解和预测航空航天工程所特有的环境和应用中的材料及相关结构行为。研究的特定领域包括计算力学，复合结构，断裂和疲劳，损伤容限和失效预测，实验力学，热和环境影响以及无损评估，结构稳定性（屈曲/后屈曲），自适应结构，结构健康监测以及系统识别。<br> <br>该小组积极解决许多长期的研究问题，包括常规的金属航空结构，例如老化飞机的寿命延长和适当的振动控制方法。随着安全，性能和生命周期成本标准的不断发展，SMM致力于评估和整合新的先进材料，例如具有增韧热固性基质的复合材料，热塑性复合材料以及金属基质
This research group seeks to understand and predict the material and related structure behavior in environments and in applications that are unique to aerospace engineering. Specific areas of inquiry include computational mechanics, composite structures, fracture and fatigue, damage tolerance and failure prediction, experimental mechanics, thermal and environmental effects and non-destructive evaluation, structural stability (buckling/postbuckling), adaptive structures, structural health monitoring, and system identification. The group actively addresses many longstanding research issues, including conventional metallic aero-structures, such as life extension in aging aircraft and proper methods of vibration control. As standards for safety, performance, and lifecycle costs continually evolve, SMM is committed to evaluating and incorporating new, advanced materials such as composites with toughened thermosetting matrices, thermoplastic composites, and metal-matrix or ceramic-matrix composites. The team has focused on damage tolerance/fatigue/fracture, airworthiness, impact-resistance, efficient and accurate computation tools (finite elements, etc.), modeling of the mechanics of manufacturing, new structural design concepts (ply drop-off, sandwich construction, elastic tailoring), anisotropic elasticity and plate/shell higher-order or asymptotic theories, and diagnostic methods including C-scan, acoustic emission, and X-ray.