Understanding the mesoscale of imperfect materials that carry the load
Materials informatics has mastered atomistic discovery but an alloy is not its unit cell. Strength, fatigue, and damage are decided at the mesoscale of grains, phases, and defects. We measure, model and design the mesoscale, especially when composition is not free to choose.
Fig. Lattice rotation fields from a slip band in a superalloy simulated with CPFEM.
Featured Research
Fatigue across Populations
Fatigue indicator parameters that generalize to grain populations far beyond their training set.
FIP-GNN · Scripta Materialia 2025
Differentiable Characterization
Microscopy as continuous differentiable fields beyond the measurement grid.
Neural EBSD · arXiv 2026
Circular Materials
Understanding microstructure-dependent damage in recycled aluminum alloys.
NSF CAREER 2025–2030
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