Prof. D.C Lagoudas from Texas A&M University visited the Center for Smart Materials and Structures (CSMS), and gave a talk about “Multifunctional Materials and Structures with Shape Memory Materials”
Biography
Prof. Dimitris C. Lagoudas currently is the Department Head and the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. He serves as the Director for the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures (TiiMS). He has co-authored about 400 scientific publications (more than 160 in archival journals) and with an H-factor of 38. For his scientific work on multifunctional materials, he received two best paper awards from ASME and one from BSME. Over the past two decades, his research has been supported by various government agencies including NSF, NASA, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, DoE, and the State of Texas.
His research involves the design, characterization and modeling of multifunctional material systems at nano, micro and macro levels with averaging micromechanics methods developed to bridge the various length scales and functionalities including mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of nanocomposites.
