Aug. 24th, 2012, Prof. D.C. Lagoudas
Publishing Time：2012-08-24

Biography
Prof.  Dimitris C. Lagoudas currently is the Department Head and the inaugural  recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering  at Texas A&M University.  He serves as the Director for the Texas  Institute for Intelligent Materials and Structures (TiiMS). He has  co-authored about 400 scientific publications (more than 160 in archival  journals) and with an H-factor of 38. For his scientific work on  multifunctional materials, he received two best paper awards from ASME  and one from BSME. Over the past two decades, his research has been  supported by various government agencies including NSF, NASA, ONR, ARO,  AFOSR, DARPA, DoE, and the State of Texas.
His  research involves the design, characterization and modeling of  multifunctional material systems at nano, micro and macro levels with  averaging micromechanics methods developed to bridge the various length  scales and functionalities including mechanical, thermal and electrical  properties of nanocomposites.
Topic of Invited talk
Multifunctional Materials and Structures with Shape Memory Materials.

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