Research

Current Sponsored Research Projects

Modulation assisted machining and drilling (NSF-Partnership for Innovation (PFI), M4 Sciences, Seco Tools (Sweden) and Hurco Corp.)
Enhancing deformation processing capability of structural lightweight metals (US Army)
High-efficiency sheet processing of light-weight structural materials (NSF GOALI, M4Sciences, Purdue TRASK commercialization fund)
Sustainable Manufacturing via multi-scale physics-based process modeling and manufacturing-informed design (Department of Energy IMI, Third Wave Systems). Collaborators are Penn State, UC Santa Barbara and Georgia Tech
Engineering of functionally graded magnesium composite surfaces (NSF GOALI, GM)
Instability phenomena in soft matter friction
Deformation in indentation of metals, polymers and hierarchical biological composites
High speed machining of Compacted Graphite Iron (Diamond Innovations)
Surface micro-texturing for enhanced performance – NSF
Flow and processing of granular materials (foundation funds). Joint with Indian Inst. Sci., Bangalore, India.