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Professor Ravi Chandran
Associate Professor
Tel: 801 581 7197.
ravi.chandran @ utah.edu
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TEACHING INTERESTS
Undergraduate courses on Mechanical and Physical Metallurgy, with emphasis on Mechanical Properties of Metals, Alloys and Composites, Experimental Techniques in Metallurgy, Materials Design, Failure Analysis and Prevention.
Graduate courses on advanced aspects of Mechanical and Physical Metallurgy with particular reference to Alloy and Materials Design aspects, Fatigue and Fracture of Materials and Failure analysis of Materials
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Microstructure-property relationships with respect to mechanical behavior of metallic materials and metal matrix composites.
Currently we are active in fatigue and fracture of aerospace titanium alloys, in-situ processing and properties of titanium metal matrix composites and functionally graded materials, finite element modeling of material behavior, making lightweight metallic materials such as multilayers and magnesium alloys.
Current Projects
- Microstructure & Mechanical Behavior of In-Situ Ti-TiB Whisker Composites for Armor. Fracture mechanics of functionally graded materials, modeling and simulation.
- Technical Services to Perform Fatigue Characterization of 20 Waspalloy Specimens. Fatigue of small cracks, orientation, imaging small crack paths, fatigue life.
- Metallographic analysis of magnesium and magnesium alloys
- Titanium Boride Coated Materials for Biomedical Applications. Synthesis of TiB coatings, microstructure, tribological performance.
- Functionally Graded Materials. Processing and properties of Ti-TiB functionally graded materials, thermal stress calculations, finite element modeling.
For more details: visit the Mechanical Properties Laboratory
