Advanced materials and structures in extreme environments
Professor Arun Shukla’s team literally blows things up to learn how to better keep them together.
Using shock tubes, a 2,000-gallon underwater pressure tank and high-speed cameras capable of capturing thousands of frames per second, they can slow down time to study how materials will act under extreme temperatures, pH, heat transfer rates, and pressure.
Other engineers are exploring the effect that extreme environments have on carbon composite materials by studying them at the molecular level, as new materials are replacing steel and aluminum in applications such as aircraft and undersea robots. They are researching new composite materials, that are lighter and easier to maintain than traditional metals, but have a higher tolerance for damage.
Professor Arun Shukla Awarded ASME Drucker Medal - By Hugh Markey For the past 42 years, Prof. Arun Shukla has been a part of the URI mechanical, industrial, and systems engineering department, supervising over a hundred graduate students, conducting research, and making substantial contributions to the engineering community. Those efforts were recently recognized with the awarding of the Daniel C. Drucker Medal, given […]
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Faculty
Professor and Graduate Director
Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering
401.874.2356 – chelidze@uri.edu
Simon Ostrach Professor
Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering
401.874.2283 – shuklaa@uri.edu
People are just now discovering all the benefits of these materials in terms of cost savings and their performance in extreme environments. Our research is helping to advance the field.
Arun Shukla