PhD Graduates
Saikiran Gopalakrishnan
Graduated: May 2022
Placement: Engineering USA - Changing Manufacuturing Consultants
Thesis Title: Integration of product lifecycle behavior into component design, manufacturing and performance analysis to realize a digital twin representation through a model-based feature information network
John Rotella
Graduated: December 2021
Placement: Air Force Research Laboratory
PhD Thesis Title: Preferential microstructural pathways of strain localization within nickel and titanium alloys
Greg Scofield
Graduated: December 2021
Placement: Rolls-Royce Corporation
PhD Thesis Title: Chemomechanical behavior of a melt-infiltrated SiC-Si composite at 900°C
Ronald Agyei
Graduated: August 2021
Placement: Post-doc at Johns Hopkins University
PhD Thesis Title: Investigating damage in short fiber reinforced composites
Imad Hanhan
Graduated: May 2020
Placement: Post-doc at Purdue University
PhD Thesis Title: Investigating damage in discontinuous fiber composites through coupled in-situ X-ray tomography experiments and simulations
Veerappan Prithivijan
Graduated: May 2020
Placement: Post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory
PhD Thesis Title: Modeling fatigue behavior of additively manufactured Ni-based super alloys via crystal plasticity
Ritwik Bandyopadhyay
Graduated: May 2020
Placement: Post-doc at Purdue University
PhD Thesis Title: Ensuring fatigue performance via location-specific lifing in aerospace components made of titanium alloys and nickel-base superalloys
Kartik Kapoor
Graduated: December 2019
Placement: Intel Corporation
PhD Thesis Title: Experimentally Validated Crystal Plasticity Modeling of Titanium Alloys at Multiple Length-Scales based on Materials Characterization, Accounting for Residual Stresses
Andrea Nicolas
Graduated: August 2019
Placement: Post-doc Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
PhD Thesis Title: Effects of the local micromechanics and electrochemistry on the galvanic corrosion of AA7050-T7451
Diwakar P. Naragani
Graduated: August 2019
Placement: Post-doc Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
PhD Thesis Title: High Energy X-ray Study of Defect Mediated Damage in Bulk Polycrystalline Ni-based Superalloys
Dr. Andrea Rovinelli
Graduated: December 2017
Placement: Post-doc Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
PhD Thesis Title: A General Probablistic Framework Combining Experiments and Simulations to Identify the Small Crack Driving Force
LTC Todd Book, PhD
Graduated: July 2016
Placement: Research Group Leader, West Point, US Military Academy
Thesis title: Structural Integrity of Additive Materials: Microstructure, Fatigue Behavior, and Surface Processing
Saikumar Reddy
Graduated: December 2015
Placement: Post-doc NASA Langley (LaRC)
Thesis: A Microstructure-Based Fatigue Life Prediction Framework and its Validation
Masters Graduates
Sidharth Krishnamoorthi
Graduated: August 2022
Thesis Title: Modeling the fatigue response of additively manufactured Ti-6Al-4V with prior 𝜷 boundaries using crystal plasticity finite element methods
Paul Gardner
Graduated: May 2022
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Assessment of Ti-6Al-4V laser clad repair
Joe O'Gara
Graduated: December 2021
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Analysis of Mode I fatigue crack growth in carbon fibre reinforced polymer laminates
Alejandra Ortiz
Graduated: August 2021
Placement: MITO Materials Solutions
Thesis Title: Slow crack growth criteria for continuous fiber composite laminates
Samuel Noone
Graduated: December 2019
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Analysis of Laser Clad Repaired Ti-6Al-4V Fatigue Life
Alexandra Mallory
Graduated: May 2019
Placement: Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific
Thesis Title: On the development of an open-source preprocessing framework for finite element simulations
Michael Waddell
Graduated: December 2018
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Investigation of Short Fatigue Crack Growth and Damage Tolerance in Additive Manufactured Ti-6Al-4V
Priya Ravi
Graduated: December 2017
Placement: Purdue University - Professional Master’s Program
Research Topic: High Energy X-ray Diffraction applied to closure effects in small crack growth
Stephen Carter
Graduated: December 2017
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Measuring Fatigue Crack Deflections via Cracking of Constituent Particles in AA7050-T7451 Rolled Plate via In-Situ X-ray synchrotron Computed Micro-Tomography
Alexander W. Finch
Graduated: December 2017
Placement: Tri-D (start-up co-founder)
Thesis: Characterization of Porosity Defects in Selectiverly Laser Melted IN718 and Ti-6Al-4V via Synchrotron X-ray Computed Tomography
Daniel James Chadwick
Graduated: December 2016
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Mechanism of Shot Peening Enhancement for the Fatigue Performance of AA7050-T7451
Seth Kijewski
Graduated: May 2016
Placement: The Aerospace Corporation
Research Topic: Characterization of fiber length distributions in composites
Lena Huynh
Graduated: December 2015
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Fatigue Behavior of Complex Geometries Produced via Additive Manufacturing
Ajey Venkataraman
Graduated: May 2015
Placement: Agronne National Lab
Research Topic: Grain boundary sliding
Javier Esquivel
Graduated: December 2014
Placement: Boeing
Thesis Title: Digital Image Correlation of Heterogeneous Deformations in Polycrystalline Materials with Electron Backscatter Diffraction
Dr. Andrea Rovinelli
Graduated: May 2014
Placement: PhD program - Purdue University
MS Thesis Title: Influence of Microstructure Variability on Short Crack Growth Behavior
MS Research Performed at Purdue University and degree was granted at University of Bologna, Italy
Matt Durbin
Graduated: December 2013
Placement: Royal Australian Air Force
Thesis Title: Assessing Variability in Microstructural Influence of Fatigue Crack Growth Behavior
Post-Doctoral Alumni
Dr. Bhisham Sharma
January - August 2014
Project: Uncertainty Quantification in the Characterization of Fiber Orientation and Length Distributions of Long Fiber Reinforced Composites
January - August 2016
Project: Response Surface and Decision Making based on Machining Simulations
Placement: Faculty member at Wichita State University
Dr. Alberto Mello
July 2014 - August 2018
Project: Heterogeneous deformation through high resolution digital image correlation of: (i) Ni-based superalloys during high temperature fatigue, (ii) corrosion of AA7050, and (iii) Ti-6Al-4V at high R ratio fatigue
Placement: Faculty member at Embry Riddle University
Dr. Burak Bal
July 2015 - January 2016
Project: FE-Based Machining Simulations
Placement: Faculty member at Abdullah Gul University
Dr. Leslie Mushongera
October 2017 - July 2018
Project: Fatigue behavior of additively manufactured materials and phase field modeling of substructure during fatigue loading
Placement: Faculty member at University of Nevada, Reno.
Dr. Quan (Jason) Zhou
July 2019 - July 2020
Project: Development of high-throughput high-energy X-ray diffraction microscope at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) inside Argonne National Laboratory.
Placement: Post-doc at the University of Utah / Hitachi America
Dr. Imad Hanhan
May 2020 - July 2021
Project: Investigating damage in fiber reinforced composites via X-ray tomography
Placement: Pratt & Whitney
Dr. Ritwik Bandyopadhyay
June 2020 - June 2022
Project: Modeling framework to unify the treatment of Type I, Type II, and Type III residual stresses and high energy X-ray diffraction microscopy characterization
Placement: Faculty member at IIT Dehli
Undergraduate Researchers Alumni
Javi Solano
Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021
Affiliation: Undergraduate at University of Houston
Michael Pilipchuk
Summer 2021 - Present
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Michael Pardo
Summer 2021
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Aman Chokshi
Sprin 2021
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Ryoma Kawakami
Summer 2020
Affiliation: Undergraduate at the Ohio State University
Aidan Molnar
August 2019 to February 2020
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Nolan Miller
Summer 2019
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Rachel Roth
Fall 2018 - Spring 2019 and Fall 2019
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Jennifer Bergeson
Fall 2018
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Hayden Hermes
Summer 2018 - Fall 2018
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Kenneth Seranno
Summer 2018
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Brian Chen
Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Summer 2018
Affiliation: Undergraduate at Purdue University
Michael Reinhold
Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
Affiliation: Graduate School - UT Austin
Rachel Delmontagne
Summer 2017
Affiliation: Peace Corps
Amit K. Soni
Fall 2014 & Fall 2015 thru Summer 2016
Graduated: Aug 2016 w/ honors
Honors Thesis: Exp. Load Frame Redesign for In Situ HEDM
Affiliation: Boeing
Alexandra Mallory
Summer 2016
Affiliation: Graduate School - Purdue University
Stuart B. McCrorie
smccrori@purdue.edu
Summer 2016
Affiliation: Northrop Grumman
Hannah Woods
Summer 2015
Affiliation: Graduate School - Georgia Tech University
Catalina Parada
Summer 2015
Affiliation: Graduate School - University of Toronto
Samuel Otto
Summer 2015
Affiliation: Graduate School - University of Pennsylvania
Connor Sullivan
Summer 2014 thru Spring 2015
Affiliation: Boeing
German Parada
Summer 2013
Affiliation: Graduate School - MIT
Kevin Vuong
Summer 2013 and Spring 2014
Affiliation: Graduate School - Purdue University
Brandon Puccio
Spring 2013 and Spring 2014
Affiliation: Rockwell Collins
Nicoletta Fala
Summer 2012
Affilitation: Graduate School - Purdue University
Visiting Scholars Alumni
Dr. Kun Wang
Visited: Dec. 2013 - Nov. 2014
Affiliation: School of Energy and Power
Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST)
Dr. Lijie Chen
Visited: Nov. 2012 - Oct. 2013
Affiliation: Department of Astronautics in Xiamen University
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Openings
There are openings in the lab for motivated and hard-working individuals who are interested in a combination of materials science, solid mechanics, and manufacturing.
Interested individuals should provide their CV and a statement indicating their areas of interest to Dr. Sangid (msangid@purdue.edu).