Purdue AAE Assistant Prof. Michael Sangid has won a 2017 Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation. The CAREER award is one of the most prestigious NSF honors for outstanding young researchers.

Sangid is principal investigator on a project studying residual stresses on polycrystalline materials. The materials such as metals, alloys and ceramics dominate the infrastructure of modern society in terms of both tons of raw material usage and in the breadth of applications, which span energy, transportation, defense, and other sectors. Stresses introduced during the processing of these materials, known as residual stresses, are ubiquitous in all materials and can have tremendous effects on performance. The research will lead to the development of a computational framework to account for residual stresses and faithfully predict their distributions. The results will unequivocally elucidate the role of residual stresses across length scales in polycrystalline materials, in order to develop more accurate lifetime predictions of the alloys and fabricate tailored components that offer either minimal or beneficial residual stresses and therefore are more resistant to failures.

Sangid’s NSF award description is available here.

photo: Prof. Michael Sangid (center) with grad students Diwakar Naragani (left) and Kartik Kapoor (right), whose preliminary research led to Sangid's NSF CAREER award