> George Sunny
Advisor: Prof. Lewandowski and Prof. Prakash (MAE)
Office: 240 Bingham
Phone: (216) 368-2763
Email: gps6@case.edu
Background:BS, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, May 2003
MS candidate, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, May 2003-present
Research Interests:Bulk metallic glasses
High strain-rate deformation of materials
Experimental methods in mechanics
Optical inspection methods for dynamic loading
Quasistatic loading of materials (including pressure and temperature
effects)
Biomechanics and biomaterials
Failure and fracture analysis
Projects:My research deals with the investigation of both mechanical (peak stress, strain-to-failure) and material (shear banding, fracture) behavior of a Zr-based bulk metallic glass (LM-1). These experiments are performed on a Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar to produce compressive strain rates from 10^2/s to 10^4/s in order to determine the effectiveness of this material in blast resistance applications.
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