NEWS
General News
• Shayla Swain was selected as a 2009-2010 NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellow.
• Dr. Iris V. Rivero received the 2009 Society of Manufacturing Engineers Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, the award will be presented in June 2009 at SME Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA.
http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/awardhtml.pl?/awards/oyme09.htm&&&SME
• Rula Allaf successfully passed her qualifying exam in Decemeber 2008 and is now a Ph.D. candidate.
• Rocio Hernandez Master's Thesis approved.
• Shayla Swain was selected as a 2008-2009 NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Fellow.
Publications
• Hatamleh, Omar, Rivero, Iris V., and Swain, Shayla E., “Residual Stress Relaxation in Laser Peened Friction Stir Welded Aluminum-Lithium Alloy Joints,” accepted for publication at the Journal of Materials & Design.
• Rivero, Iris V., Pantoya, Michelle, Rajamani, Karthik, and Hsiang, Simon M., 2009, “Correlation of Reactant Particle Size on Residual Stresses of Nanostructured NiAl generated by Self Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis”, accepted for publication at the Journal of Materials Research.
• Hatamleh, Omar, Rivero, Iris V., and Maredia, Arif, 2008, “Residual Stresses in Friction Stir Welded 2195 and 7075 Aluminum Alloys,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A. 39 (12): 2867-2874.
• Rivero, Iris V., and Ruud Clayton O., 2008, “Determination of the Accuracy of Phase Analysis Measurements on Spherical Surfaces through X-Ray Diffraction,” NDT & E International. 41 (6): 434-440.
Abstracts accepted for IERC 2008
• Paper Title: Novel Quality Control Tool for the Fabrication of Laser Ablation Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes.
Authors: Javier Calvo, Iris Rivero.
• Paper Title: Manufacturing Process Design to Ensure the Repeatability of Nanocomposite Properties.
Authors: Rocio Hernandez, Iris Rivero
• Paper Title: Effect Surface of Treatments on the Resultant Integrity of Aluminum Friction Stir Welds.
Authors: Iris Rivero, Omar Hatamleh
• Paper Title: Moment Closure Approximation Procedure to Stochastic Fatigue Crack Propagation Modeling
Authors: Binod Maharjan, Iris Rivero, Timothy Matis.