Department Chair Douglas Adams introduces the new 20,000 square foot lab - LASIR - that will enable researchers to study how large equipment responds in different environments, for example, how a wind turbine interacts with other wind turbines and how batteries perform....
Research in aircraft wing design optimization and structural health monitoring of aircraft components is explained by Ph.D. students Chen Liang & You Ling. Ling is also working on reliability analysis of MEMS....
Sankaran Mahadevan describes his research in the reliability analysis of structures and materials, one of four focus areas in his research group on Risk and Reliability Engineering and Management....
Within in the research area of risk and reliability throughout the life of a system, one of the sub-groups is structural health monitoring of both civil systems and aerospace systems. Dr. Mahadevan describes the methods and techniques used in this analysis...
Dr. Mahadevan's research in optimizing designs under uncertainty includes structural optimization of civil or mechanical components, and conceptual design of space vehicles and satellites. Various sources of uncertainty...
This research area explores the reliability of models, and how to quantify uncertainty in system-level predictions. Model verification, model validation, and calibration are incorporated in this analysis ...
Ph.D. student Ghina Nakad describes her research in quantifying errors and uncertainty in the prediction of computational models. This application involves a curved panel around a hypersonic plane engine subjected to ...