Multiscale Mechanics and Materials Research for Energy Efficiency and Extreme Environments
Hussein Zbib
Recipient of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture’s 2015 Anjan Bose Outstanding Researcher Award.
3:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 1, Goertzen Hall
Efficient use of energy recourses and the development of alternative sources of energy depend on new technologies which require designing new classes of materials with superior properties. This includes the development of materials that possess a high degree of material reliability, energy efficiency (lightweight), structural stability, mechanical strength, high ductility, toughness and resistance to fracture and fatigue, for use in emerging technologies, such as new generation airplanes and automobiles, fuel cell technologies, new generation of nuclear reactors, etc. This presentation will give an overview of our research activities in these areas with focus on a multiscale experimental and computational predictive capability which enables fundamental insight into the performance of such material. To illuminate the predictive capability of the multiscale approach, two cases will be highlighted: 1) the development of a new class of nanoscale multilayer metallic composites for use in extreme environments, and 2) the development of a predicative capability for investigating the degradation of materials in irradiated environments.
A world leader in discrete dislocation dynamics and plasticity theory, Hussein Zbib has been part of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Washington State University since 1988.
Zbib directs WSU’s Computational Mechanics and Materials Science Laboratory, and has received many awards, including: fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, executive member of the Lebanese Academy of Science, and the 2010 Khan International Award for outstanding contribution to
the field of plasticity.
