Ph.D.

Member of

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society for Materials International (ASM Int.)
• The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  

• Composite materials: synthesis, processing and mechanical behavior.
• Electron microscopy and failure analysis.
• Environmental effects of material response (fatigue and fracture).
• Experimental Fracture Mechanics and Fatigue Mechanisms.
• Materials processing and characterization.
• Mechanical behavior of materials: relationship between microstructure and
  Mechanical-properties.
• Mechanical life-time (failure) prediction.
• Mechanics of Solids and Mechanical Design.
• Nanomaterials and nanostructures: characterization, mechanical behavior and failure analysis
• Thermal-Mechanical fatigue.

• U.S. Army Research Office (US ARO)
• Office of Naval Research (ONR)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Energy Institute: University of California
• Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center
• Science and Engineering Council of Canada.
• Ministry of Research: Hong Kong Development of Research:  Hong Kong
• Kentucky (KY) Science and Engineering Foundation

1. Co-Editor-in-Chief: Materials and Manufacturing Processes
   (Publisher: Taylor & Francis) 1988-present
2. Member - Board of Review
   Journal of Materials Engineering (ASM International) 1987-1992
3. Editorial Committee 2004-present
   Advanced Materials and Processes
4. International Advisory Board 1992-present
   Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (ASM International)
5. Board of Review: Materials Science and Engineering: A,
   an International Journal 2005-present
6. Author, Editor and/or Co-Editor of FORTY-TWO(42) books in the areas of:
   • Processing, Design and Performance of Composite Materials(5);
   • Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (24);
   • Machining of Composite Materials (2);
   • Fatigue and Fracture of Ordered Intermetallic Materials (3);
   • Rapid Solidification Technology (1);
   • High Cycle Fatigue of Materials (1);
   • Modeling the Performance of Engineering Structural Materials (3);
   • Advances in Understanding the Fatigue Behavior of Materials (1);
   • Emerging Materials and Technologies: Friction, Fretting and Wear: SADHANA;
   • Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergences in Understanding (1).

• Aerospace: Materials and Structures
• Tire Research and Manufacturing
• Metal Producing and Metal Fabricating industries
• Aircraft Braking
• Bearing Industry
• Manufactured Goods
• Assorted Engineering Product industries dealing with metals

• Delivered over One-Hundred Seventy-Five [175] technical presentations in:
  (a) National and International meetings and symposia;
  (b) Technical/Professional societies;
  (c) Research and Educational institutions.
   
• Author of over Four hundred and seventy (290 Refereed Journal and 180 Book Chapters + Conference Proceedings) archival technical publications in (i)International Journals, and (ii)Proceedings (Bound Volume) of National and International Conferences/Symposia.
   
• Author of Fifty seven (57) published Final Technical Reports and Sixty-two (62) scholarly reviews of technical books appeared in print in archival journals.
   
• Author, Editor and Co-Editor of Forty two(42) Books in the areas spanning:
  1. Fatigue and Fracture of Ordered Intermetallic Materials;
  2. High Cycle Fatigue of Materials;
  3. Machining of Composite Materials;
  4. Processing, Design and Performance of Composite Materials;
  5. Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials;
  6. Rapid Solidification Technology;
  7. Advances in Fatigue of Materials;
  8. Emerging Materials and Technologies: Friction, Fretting and Wear: SADHANA;
  9. Fatigue of Materials: Advances and Emergences in Understanding.
      
• Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Materials and Manufacturing Processes [1988 - present].