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Post-Doctoral Fellowships are available. Check the openings page.

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AM&P article - Blast Protection Materials (Free access)

JOM review article - The Synthesis, Compressive Properties, and Applications of Metal Matrix Syntactic Foams (Free access)

JOM Cover

February 2011 issue of JOM cover features CMML work.

JMSc cover

August 2002 issue of JMSc cover features Dr. Gupta's work. 

 

 
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  Composites Materials & Mechanics Laboratory

specializes in lightweight highly damage tolerant composites

Advanced Lightweight Composites and Nanocomposites

Functionally Graded Composites

Biomaterials and Biomimetic Materials

Sensors and Smart Materials

 
 
 
CMML partners with REL, Inc to develop a composite brake rotor through NSF SBIR program support.

Composites World Article: REL, NYU-Poly develop aluminum-composite brake rotor

Physorg.com Article: REL, Inc. teams with NYU-Poly to create lightweight, ultra durable automotive brake rotor

American Ceramic Society: New ceramic–aluminum composite brake rotor developed for mass market

Gizmag.com: Tough, light, inexpensive composite brake rotors could make their way to regular cars

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Undergraduate student researcher Kevin Chen receives Environmental Protection Agency's GRO fellowship.

Kevin submitted a proposal to develop a fiber-optic sensor for hydrocarbon detection in his two-year fellowship research. The sensor will be useful in long term autonomous monitoring of water, such as after oil spill.

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2010-2011 Department and university award winner students

Gleb Dorogokupets: Best undergraduate research experience

Kevin Chen: ASTM Noah Kahn Non-Destructive Testing award


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News media coverage on fly ash filled aluminum and magnesium matrix composites studied at CMML

NTDTV news coverage:
Scientist Discovers New Use for Industrial Fly Ash

Reuters video coverage:
Car parts from coal waste more than a concept

Scientific American: Will the Car of the Future Be Made from Coal Ash?

Wards Auto: Research Applies Fly Ash to Composite Metals (Subscribers only)

Smart Planet: Fly ash: From toxic by-product to nearly-free metal replacement

Futurity.org: From toxic waste to green cars

Earth911: New Tech Uses Fly Ash to Decrease Vehicle Weight

Environmental Protection: Turning Toxic Waste into Greener Cars, Stronger Metals

ASM International: Fly ash from coal combustion could serve as filler in aluminum and magnesium foam

Waste Management World: Turning Toxic Fly Ash into Automotive Metal Foams

Eco Composites: Huge potential of fly ash

Solar Miracles: The car of the future

Coal Geology: Turning Toxic Coal Combustion Waste into Greener Cars, Stronger Metals

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Professional society TMS publish a profile articles on Dr. Gupta

Nikhil Gupta Brings Materials Science to the Masses

The article also appears in the JOM March 2011 issue.

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CMML research is featured in NSF March 2011 newsletter.

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CMML publishes a series of papers on the high strain rate response of metal matrix composites
A series of three papers appear in the February 2011 issue of JOM, a journal published by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. The first paper presents results on magnesium alloy/fly ash composites, the second paper studies aluminum alloy/fly ash composites and the third paper presents a review of the present state of knowledge on metal matrix syntactic foams. A Ph.D. students at CMML Dung Luong is the lead researchers in this study, which is conducted in collaboration with Dr. P. K. Rohatgi of University of Wisconsin. The review article is selected for open access through TMS website.

The journal featured an image from one of the papers on the cover page of the issue.

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CMML announces results of a new study on high strain rate failure of bones and foams.

Recent media coverage:
Scientific American Video
Discovery Channel Video

NSF Discoveries.
NSF "News From The Field" link
NSF "Behind the Scene" article on Livescience.com

NYU-Poly news release: Check details
Forbes.com: Check details

Access the papers cited in these studies:
Journal of Biomechanics
Materials Science and Engineering A

Preprint versions available through the publications page.

Access high speed video of rabbit femur bone fracture under high strain rate compression (captured at about 7000 frames/second):
at 200 frames/second playback speed
at 3 frames/second playback speed

(Note: the video files are about 30 MB each and are in AVI format)

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Congratulations to Vasanth C. Shunmugasamy for completing M.S. degree (Spring 2010) and winning the best M.S. Thesis award of the department. Check details.

Congratulations to Raymond Ye for graduating with B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and winning Noah Kahn Award for his research.


Dr. Gupta receives grant to develop safer materials for the US Navy.
Check news releases.


Two ASM-IIM Visiting Lectureship Award lectures presented in India.
Check details.


Dr. Gupta presented a workshop on weight reduction of military vehicles in the Tactical Vehicles Summit organized by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement. Click
here for details.


Congratulations to Nguyen Nguyen for defending Ph.D.  Details.

High-Speed Camera is Now Available in CMML for Impact and High Strain Rate Studies

The camera system is mounted on the Split-Hopkinson Pressure Bar. Click here to watch a movie of the high-strain rate deformation experiment at 16800 frames/second. This camera will be used for studies related to impact and blast response of materials.

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Nguyen Nguyen, a Ph.D. candidate at CMML, wins American Society for Composites Ph.D. Scholarship award

Nguyen is one of the two winners of the American Society for Composites Ph.D. scholarship award 2008. Each year the society provides these awards to recognize outstanding research in the composite materials related area. His work on development of fiber-optic sensors and their applications in structural health monitoring of composite materials has potential for a wide ranging applications. He was presented this award during the society's annual meeting in Memphis from September 9-11, 2008. More information on this award can be found here.

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New Functionally Graded Composite designed at CMML

Two recent papers demonstrate superiority of functionally graded syntactic foams (FGSFs) designed by CMML to be higher damage tolerant and energy absorbent compared to the existing functionally graded and plain syntactic foams.

The First paper authored by Dr. Nikhil Gupta proposes the new FGSF structure. The Second paper presents results of an extensive experimental scheme that compares the compressive properties of traditional FGSFs created by a volume fraction gradient in their structure and the new types of FGSFs based on the microballoon wall thickness approach. The new syntactic foams designed by CMML are found to have 200-500% higher energy absorption capabilities under compression.

 
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