| Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanics |
| Computational activities in biomotor control,constitutive modeling of soft tissues, mass and fluid transport in soft tissues, finite-element analysis of the spine and cardiovascular system, models of the head and neck, orthopedic mechanics, evolution and adaptation of biosystems, microsensing, and design an devaluation of medical implants; biothermal science (bioheat and biomass transfer, cryobiology). |
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| Computational Mechanics |
| Activities focus on multibody systems, parallel computing, highly flexible bodies, articulated joints, vibration analysis, damage detection, and graphics and animation. |
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| Controls and Flight Mechanics |
| Theoretical and experimental activities on linear and optimal controls, differential game theory, and control of manufacturing processes and flexible structures. |
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| Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics |
| Activities span the experimental, diagnostic,computational, and analytical aspects of laminar and turbulent shear flows, receptivity and transition, hydrodynamic stability, control of flows, aeroacoustics, lubrication, thermal and double-diffusive convection, and partical-laden flow. |
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| Manufacturing Technology |
| Activities range from analysis, design-synthesis, and sensitivity studies to real-time identification and control of processes applicable to forming, joining, and machining; laser welding; directional solidification of alloys; residual stresses; and damage nucleation. |
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| Microsystem Technology |
| Development of microfabrication and microassembly techniques; construction of integrated microsystems and microdevices merging mechanical, electrical, chemical and biological components for various applications such as in life sciences. |
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| Reliability Engineering |
| Research includes preventive maintenance policies and their optimization, accelerated tests, reliability optimization and growth, environmental stress screening and optimization, probabilistic mechanics and structural reliability, and fatigue and fracture reliability, engineering design by reliability. |
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| Solid Mechanics |
| Analytical and numerical research covers microdamage in metals, fabrication and failure of composites, constitutive laws for finite strains, poroelastic-transport problems,thermal stresses in electronic packages, and finite-and boundary-element techniques, fatigue and high strain-rate behavior of solids. |
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| Thermosciences |
| Experimental and computational research spans a range of activities in laminar and turbulent heat transfer, convective stability and conduction phenomena applicable to propulsion, electronic cooling, laser welding, multiphase flows, gas turbines and biosystems. |
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