People
Director
Professor Huseyin Sehitoglu
huseyin@illinois.edu
Prof. Huseyin Sehitoglu received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The City University, London in 1979 (First Class Honors) and went on to receive his M.S. in 1981 and his Ph.D in 1983 in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served as Director of Mechanics and Materials for the National Science Foundation from 1991-1993. He was the Head of the newly formed Mechanical Science and Engineering Department during 2004-2009. He heads the Fracture Control Program at the University of Illinois and is currently involved with NSF, Air Force, DOE, Rolls Royce and Honeywell funded research. His major areas of focus are Mechanics of Materials, Thermo-mechanical Behavior of Metals, Phase Transformations and Shape Memory, and Twinning and Slip in Metallic Materials.
Postdoctoral Research Associates
Matthias Bonisch
Matthias is working on high entropy alloys.
Florian Brenne
Florian is working on microscopy of interfaces.
Graduate Students
Ahmed Sameer Khan Mohammed
He is working on modeling phase transformations.
Orcun Celebi
Orcun is working on modeling slip-twin interactions and fatigue.
Jad Yaacoub
Jad is working on fatigue crack growth in shape memory materials.
Sidharth Ravi
Sidharth is working on high temperature fatigue of stainless steels and also on high entropy alloys.
Yan Wu
Yan is working on fatigue of shape memory alloys.
Visiting Faculty/Collaborators
Professor Yuri Chumlyakov
chum@phys.tsu.ru
Savaş Dilibal
dilibal@illinois.edu
Dr. Emre Guler
Professor Temel Kotil
Professor Hans Maier
maier@lwk.uni-paderborn.de
Dr. Guowu Ren
Professor Heung-sik Woo
woohs@mail.dongguk.ac.kr
Prof. Woo’s major interests are high temperature corrosion fatigue and mechanical behavior evaluation of shape memory alloys.