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Dimitris Lagoudas
New Magnetic "Smart Material" Developed through Collaborative Alloy Processing and Modeling at Texas A&M
In the last year Texas A&M faculty members Ibrahim Karaman (Mechanical Engineering) and Dimitris Lagoudas (Aerospace Engineering) have developed a new alloy based on Ni, Mn, Co, and In, which can exhibit... More »
About Me
D. C. Lagoudas currently is the Department Head and the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University. He also serves as the Director for the Texas Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures (TiiMS). His research involves the design, characterization and modeling of multifunctional material systems at nano, micro and macro levels with averaging micromechanics methods developed to bridge the various length scales and functionalities including mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of nanocomposites. His research team is one of the most recognized internationally in the area of modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 scientific publications (130 in archival journals). For his scientific work on multifunctional materials, he received two best paper awards from ASME. He is co-author of a monograph on gauge theories of defects, and edited several special issues of journals and proceedings volumes, while a textbook on shape memory alloys co-authored with his graduate students is in print. He has six disclosures of invention and concepts developed for industry and a software license. During the past two decades he has published extensively on the subject of shape memory alloys with his students, postdoctoral associates and colleagues and several of his journal papers are now considered classic papers in the field. The theoretical models that his research group developed have now been implemented an integrated into finite element analysis software, which have been used by many academic institutions around the world and also industry and government (Boeing, DoD and NASA). Most recently he has received the 2006 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize in recognition of his contributions to the modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys and their use in aerospace structures. Over the past two decades, his research has been supported by various government agencies including NSF, NASA, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, DoE, and State of Texas. He has collaborated with many industrial partners such as Bell Helicopter – Textron, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Schlumberger and Memory Technologies. He has also worked with national labs, including DoD Labs and NASA centers, either directly or through cooperative research and development agreements. He is an Associate Editor for the two primary journals on smart structures and he helped organize numerous conferences through professional societies such as AIAA, ASME, SPIE and SES, for which he served in various capacities. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Defense Science Study Group, and he has served on NRC panels. He also served as the co-chair of NASA’s Roadmap panel for Nanotechnologies. He was the inaugural recipient of one of the two Ford Motor Company Professorships, he is a TEES fellow, a TAMU Faculty Fellow and he is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and a Fellow of ASME. He served as an Associate Vice President for Research for Texas A&M University from 2001-2004, and as the first chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at TAMU.
