News
October 1, 2018
Over the next three years the collaborative team of Drs. Kingstedt, Chang Spear and Berke (USU) will investigate the role of size effects on ductility measurements. Each team member will leverage their expertise in experiments, modeling, microfabrication, and high-temperature experimentation to identify best practices for scaling measurements made on micro-scale thickness specimens to the macroscale.
August 15, 2018
The Kingstedt research group expands by adding two new members, PhD student Mohammed Elamin and MS student Jack Varga. Mohammed received his M.S. at the University of Akron completing a thesis dedicating to investigating the impact response of composite panels under cryogenic conditions. His early work in the group will focus on drop tower experiments […]
August 3, 2018
Congratulations to undergraduate researchers Ronaldo Herrera and Tanner Snow for being selected for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) for the Fall semester! Ronaldo’s project will focus on investigating de-noising, segmentation and thresholding approaches applied to x-ray tomographs. Tanner will investigate the dynamic behavior of surrogate bone material subjected to drop tower loading with high speed imaging.
May 4, 2018
Formerly an undergraduate researcher within the group Raphael will be transitioning to the M.S. portion of the B.S./M.S. program. The B.S./M.S. program is reserved for top students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
April 20, 2018
One of the first hurdles to overcome on the path to completing the PhD program is the PhD qualifying exam. This written exam, spans multiple fields of solid mechanics testing student’s knowledge of engineering theory and practice. Roger has passed the qualifying exam on his first attempt! Well done Roger!
January 1, 2018
The Kingstedt lab was selected for funding by the University of Utah Office of the Vice President for Research to develop new SEM-based grid method techniques for full-field deformation studies. The approach will leverage a JOEL 5910LV SEM recently acquired in collaboration with Dr. Czabaj of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
November 10, 2017
Dr. Kingstedt presented two presentations within the Extreme Environments track. The first talk presented a deformation mechanisms approach to thermo-mechanical coupling in light-weight Mg alloy, AZ31B. The second talk, showed the different strain localization processes which take place prior to failure in shear dominated deformation around a through hole defect in AZ31B.
August 3, 2017
Hadi Mirmohammad becomes the newest member to join the research group. Hadi joins group having recently completed his B.S. at the University of Tehran in Mechanical Engineering. Hadi’s work will focus on the development of SEM-based experimental techniques to study mechanism activity during deformation.
June 8, 2017
At the annual conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, Dr. Kingstedt and his PhD advisor Dr. John Lambros (UIUC) received the M. Hetenyi award for the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics. In their paper titled “Ultra-high speed imaging of laser-induced spallation”, images are captured at 200 million frames per second capturing the […]
April 3, 2017
In engineering seeing is believing. The acquisition of a world class high speed camera will be a critical component of improving understanding of dynamic events which have not been visualized previously. The Shimadzu HPVX2 camera will be used by individuals across campus to investigate rotor flutter, blast, dynamic fracture, and high rate deformation. A huge […]