- High-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
- Microstructure and mechanical properties
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition
- Energetic Materials and Combustion
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
- Bone Tissue Engineering Materials
- Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics
- Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties
- Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Steels
- Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
- Advanced materials and composites
- Silk-based biomaterials and applications
- Advanced ceramic materials synthesis
- Ion-surface interactions and analysis
- Surface Treatment and Residual Stress
- Aluminum Alloys Composites Properties
- Metallurgy and Material Forming
- Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
- Metal Forming Simulation Techniques
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- High Entropy Alloys Studies
- Nanotechnology research and applications
- Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
University of California, San Diego
2016-2025
University of California System
1995-2024
Colorado School of Mines
2022-2023
University of Vermont
2023
Purdue University West Lafayette
2023
Colorado State University
2023
Los Alamos National Laboratory
2000-2022
St. Joseph’s University Medical Center
2022
Saint Joseph's University
2022
National Institute of Standards
2022
Spider silk is extraordinarily strong, mollusk shells and bone are tough, porcupine quills feathers resist buckling. How these notable properties achieved? The building blocks of the materials listed above primarily minerals biopolymers, mostly in combination; first weak tension second compression. intricate ingenious hierarchical structures responsible for outstanding performance each material. Toughness conferred by presence controlled interfacial features (friction, hydrogen bonds, chain...
These proceedings of EXPLOMET 90, the International Conference on Materials Effects Shock-Wave and High-Strain-Rate Phenomena, held August 1990, in La Jolla, California, represent a global up-to-date appraisal this field. Contributions (more than 100) deal with high-strain-rate deforma
Abstract Tear resistance is of vital importance in the various functions skin, especially protection from predatorial attack. Here, we mechanistically quantify extreme tear skin and identify underlying structural features, which lead to its sophisticated failure mechanisms. We explain why it virtually impossible propagate a rabbit chosen as model material for dermis vertebrates. express deformation terms four mechanisms collagen fibril activity under tensile loading that eliminate...