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Dr. Garrett Pataky

University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, 2015
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2011
University of Flordia
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 2009

Graduate Students

Lucas M Morand
Ph.D. Student

Part-scale simulation of metal additive manufacturing

Ben Elbrecht
Ph.D. Student

Creep deformation mechanisms of titanium alloys

Seyed Ali Asli
Ph.D. Student

Interaction between deformation twinning and fatigue crack growth

Ali Azarmi
M.S. Student

Tribology of high entropy alloys

C. Summar Hill
M.S. Student

Moisture absorption of carbon fiber composite laminates

Creative Inquiry

Investigating the benefit of interlaminar carbon nanotubes on CFRP

Graduated

Dr. Jacob Biddlecom

Ph.D. 2023

Fatigue of additively manufactured metals

Dr. Kaitlynn Conway

Ph.D. 2022

Mechanics of lattice materials

Dr. Mitra Shabani

Ph.D. 2020

Twin nucleation and growth in high entropy alloys

Muhammed Kose

M.S. 2021

Creep of plastics at ambient and slightly elevated temperatures

Fredrick Monroe

M.S. 2020

Aging of high entropy alloys

Matt Williams

M.S. 2020

Fatigue crack growth of high entropy alloys

Ben Smith

M.S. 2019

Effect of flaws in metal additively manufactured parts

Jody Bartanus

M.S. 2018

Effect of flaws in carbon fiber and additively manufactured parts

Cameron Abarotin

M.S. 2018

Impact of bi-stable carbon fiber

Vivic Harrinanan

M.S. 2017

Effect of surface treatments on fatigue life