Antonia Antoniou

Antonia  Antoniou

Antonia Antoniou

Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Antoniou started with the Woodruff School in Fall 2008. Prior, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnlogies (CINT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

antonia.antoniou@me.gatech.edu

404.894.6871

Office Location:
MRDC 4102

Additional Research:
Materials failure and reliability, fracture and fatigue, stress corrosion, and nanostructured materials

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Richard Neu

Richard Neu

Richard Neu

Professor School of Materials Science and Engineering and Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Mechanical Properties Characterization Facility
IMS Initiative Lead, Materials in Extreme Environments

Neu's research involves the understanding and prediction of the fatigue behavior of materials and closely related topics, typically when the material must resist degradation and failure in harsh environments. Specifically, he has published in areas involving thermomechanical fatigue, fretting fatigue, creep and environmental effects, viscoplastic deformation and damage development, and related constitutive and finite-element modeling with a particular emphasis on the role of the materials microstructure on the physical deformation and degradation processes. He has investigated a broad range of structural materials including steels, titanium alloys, nickel-base superalloys, metal matrix composites, molybdenum alloys, high entropy alloys, medical device materials, and solder alloys used in electronic packaging. His research has widespread applications in aerospace, surface transportation, power generation, machinery components, medical devices, and electronic packaging. His work involves the prediction of the long-term reliability of components operating in extreme environments such as the hot section of a gas turbine system for propulsion or energy generation. His research is funded by some of these industries as well as government funding agencies.

rick.neu@me.gatech.edu

404.894.3074

Office Location:
MRDC 4104

ME Profile Page

  • Mechanical Properties Characterization Facility
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    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Nanomaterials; micro and nanomechanics; Thermoelectric Materials; fracture and fatigue

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    Itzhak Green

    Itzhak Green

    Itzhak Green

    Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

    Green’s research has been conducted under industrial and government sponsorship. His work broadly supports the field of design, rotordynamics, and tribology. The calculation of stiffness of bolted joints has become standard in classical design textbooks*. In 2006 he received the ASME highest honor, the Machine Design Award. His work on the dynamic behavior of mechanical seals operating in liquid or gas (again award winning) has been implemented into various computer codes which have been acquired by seals manufacturers, users, and research labs. For two decades he taught two continuing education courses: (1) The “Mechanical Engineering Professional Engineering Refresher,” and (2) with colleagues from BHRG, he taught and administered the course “Fluid Sealing Technology.” He served on numerous editorial boards, served on the STLE Board of Directors, and chaired two terms the Executive Committee of the ASME, Tribology Division.

    itzhak.green@me.gatech.edu

    404.894.6779

    Office Location:
    MRDC 4209

    ME Profile Page

  • Personal Research Site
  • Google Scholar

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Acoustics and Dynamics; Tribomaterials

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    Julian Jose Rimoli

    Julian Jose Rimoli

    Julian Jose Rimoli

    Pratt and Whitney Professor, Aerospace Engineering
    Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering

    Julian J. Rimoli is an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Rimoli obtained his engineering diploma in aeronautics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata in 2001. He moved to the United States in 2004 and pursued graduate studies at Caltech, receiving his M.Sc. in aeronautics in 2005 and his Ph.D. in aeronautics in 2009. He then accepted a postdoctoral associate position at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT in Cambridge, MA, where he conducted research and supervised graduate students for more than a year and a half. In January 2011, Rimoli joined Georgia Tech as assistant professor of aerospace engineering. His research interests lie within the broad field of computational solid mechanics with particular focus on aerospace applications. Rimoli has a special interest in problems involving multiple length and time scales, and in the development of theories and computational techniques for seamlessly bridging those scales. He is a member of AIAA, ASME, and USACM and is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Donald W. Douglas Prize Fellowship, the Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award in Aeronautics, the James Clerk Maxwell Young Writers Prize, the Loockheed Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Goizueta Junior Faculty Professorship.

    julian.rimoli@aerospace.gatech.edu

    404.894.8386

    AE Profile Page

  • Computational Solid Mechanics Lab
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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Computational Materials Science
    Additional Research:
    fracture and fatigue; Modeling; computational mechanics

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    George Kardomateas

    George Kardomateas

    George Kardomateas

    Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

    Kardomateas has twenty five years of research experience in the mechanics of structures and materials, both advanced (composite) and conventional (metallic). He is the author (together with R.L. Carlson) of the book: An Introduction to Fatigue in Metals and Composites, published by Chapman and Hall, 1996, the editor of three volumes published by the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) as well as the author of about one hundred refereed journal papers, about one hundred conference proceedings papers and over twenty articles published as parts of books. He has served as the elected chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division Composites Committee of ASME and the Program Representative of the Aerospace Division Structures and Materials Committee of the ASME. Kardomateas has served as an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal, has also served in the AIAA Technical Committee on Structures and as a Contributing Editor of the International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. Following his Ph.D. studies, he assumed the position of Senior Research Engineer in the General Motors Research Laboratories, conducting industrial research in the emerging at that time field of advanced composites. In January 1989, Kardomateas joined the academic faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 1992 and to the rank of Professor in 1997. Over the last seventeen years, Kardomateas has been the principal investigator and project director of Academic Grants sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Army Research Office, the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Rotorcraft Technology Center as well as of Research Contracts sponsored by the US Air Force Warner Robins Air Logistics Center, Sikorsky Aircraft and General Motors Corp. in the field of fracture/fatigue/structural behavior in both advanced composite and conventional metallic materials and structures. Kardomateas' research has been published in highly respected journals in the Mechanics area, such as the Journal of Applied Mechanics, the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, the AIAA Journal, the International Journal of Fracture, the International Journal of Solids and Structures, the Philosophical Magazine, etc.

    george.kardomateas@aerospace.gatech.edu

    404.894.8198

    Office Location:
    SST/Weber 200-B

    AE Profile Page

  • Personal Research Site
  • University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Composites; fracture and fatigue; micro and nanomechanics

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    Sathyanaraya Hanagud

    Sathyanaraya Hanagud

    Sathyanaraya Hanagud

    Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

    Hanagud joined the faculty of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1970. Prior to his Georgia Tech appointment, he worked at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) as a research scientist from 1963 to 1970. In 1967, he, along with other Stanford professors and a colleague, founded the company Failure Analysis Associates now located in Menlo Park, California. The company helped form two acoustic emission technology firms. His research fields include structures, materials, structural dynamics, aeroelasticity and areas of design associated with these fields. Currently he is working in the areas of smart structures based vibration control, biomechanics, induced strain actuators, health monitoring of structures, active aeroelastic control and beneficial modifications of the musical instruments to improve their structural dynamic and acoustic response. Hanagud has published more than 170 technical papers, has advised and directed Ph.D. thesis of 25 graduate students and has advised 38 M.S. degree students. He has given numerous seminars/lectures at various universities, industries and different professional conferences around the world. Recently, his research work on the 'development of a smart acoustic guitar' was cited in many newspapers and news magazines around the world including a feature article in the Wall Street Journal and in a publication of the New York Academy of Sciences.

    hanagud@aerospace.gatech.edu

    404.894.3040

    Office Location:
    SST/Weber 219

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    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    micro and nanomechanics; Acoustics and Dynamics; Smart materials

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    Krishan Ahuja

    Krishan Ahuja

    Krishan Ahuja

    Regents' Professor, School of Aerospace Engineering

    A 2019 inductee to the National Academy of Engineering, Ahuja has more than 35 years of research and development experience in aircraft noise research, acoustics facilities design, flow control, state-of-the-art instrumentation, and advanced signal processing. During his employment of 13 years at Lockheed Georgia Company in various capacities, including the head of the Aeroacoustics Research and acting manager of the Advanced Flight Sciences Department, he was the principal investigator and/or the program manager on several successfully completed projects funded by Lockheed, the U. S. Air Force and NASA. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology as a Senior Faculty Research Leader in March 1989. He recently served in the capacity of the director of Georgia Tech Ireland. Ahuja is a former associate editor of the AIAA Journal and also a former Chairman of the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee. Ahuja has authored or co-authored over 180 technical articles or reports on a range of topics including acoustic shielding, fan noise, active flow control, flow/acoustic interactions, jet noise, cavity noise, automobile noise, sonic boom research, psychoacoustics, high-temperature fiber optics strain gauges, acoustic transducers, active noise control, tilt rotor noise, source separation, acoustic fatigue, duct acoustics, computational aeroacoustics, innovative flow visualization techniques, tornado signatures, rapid charging of batteries and others. The international media, including CNN and Beyond 2000, has covered his work.

    krishan.ahuja@gtri.gatech.edu

    404.385.1140

    Office Location:
    Guggenheim 362

    Research Focus Areas:
    • Aerospace
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Propulsion; Aerodynamics; Acoustics and Dynamics

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    Abdul-Hamid Zureick

    Abdul-Hamid  Zureick

    Abdul-Hamid Zureick

    Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

    Abdul-Hamid Zureick is Professor of Structural Engineering, Mechanics, and Materials at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech. He earned his BCE from Tishreen University, Syria in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982 and 1985, respectively

    Professor Zureick is an authority on the use of innovative materials in civil engineering applications. His research has been to develop criteria and specifications for the design, testing, and construction of polymer composite structural systems. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Composites for Construction and Structural Engineering and Mechanics,  and was the founder and first Chair of the ASTM International Technical Subcommittee on Composites for Civil Engineering and Marine Applications.  In 2007, he guided the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 10-73, which led to the development of the first AASHTO Guide Specifications for Design of Bonded FRP Systems for Repair and Strengthening of Concrete Bridge Elements, published in 2012.

    Professor Zureick received numerous awards and recognitions, notable among them is the 1989 ASCE Norman Medal, the highest honor granted by the American Society of Civil Engineers for a technical paper judged worthy of special commendation for its merit as a contribution to the Engineering Science. He has frequently served as a consultant, an invited speaker, and a panelist on behalf of a number of Federal, State, and private organizations in the United States and around the world.

    abdul-hamid.zureick@ce.gatech.edu

    404.894.2294

    Office Location:
    Mason 3140C

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  • Personal Research Site
  • Research Focus Areas:
    • Materials and Nanotechnology
    Additional Research:
    Bridge StructuresDesign of Steel StructuresPolymeric Composite MaterialsStructural OptimizationStructural Stability 

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    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Carlos A.R. Sa de Melo

    Professor, School of Physics

    My areas of interest include theoretical condensed matter and ultra-cold atomic and molecular physics. I strongly encourage my students to be broad, deep and creative. Breadth of knowledge is very important in today's physics job market, as is expert (deep) knowledge in a particular area. But most of all the development of new directions, never explored before is the dominant component of my research. Most of my interests are in many body aspects of condensed matter systems (superconductors, quantum magnets, and semiconductors) and atomic/molecular systems (ultra-cold atoms and molecules).

    carlos.sademelo@physics.gatech.edu

    404.894.5088

    Office Location:
    Howey W511

    Physics Profile Page

    University, College, and School/Department
    Research Focus Areas:
    • Quantum Computing
    Additional Research:
    superconductors; quantum materials; Semiconductors

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