A multi-institution team led by Janelle Wharry has received $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to pursue the design of new materials that could make nuclear fusion power plants a reality. The grant is from ARPA-E’s Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program, which aims to explore promising alloy design …

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Dr. Stinville received the 2024 Kent D. Peaslee Faculty Award from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST). This award was established in 2013 in honor and memory of Kent D. Peaslee for his unequaled passion for teaching and promoting the steel industry to students, faculty members, and steel industry personnel. His achievements forged a …

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Our research group, including two of our dedicated students, Rephayah Black and Christopher Bean, has been honored with the 2024 Hetényi Award by the Society for Experimental Mechanics! https://lnkd.in/gYyNpc8u Our paper, “High-Throughput High-Resolution Digital Image Correlation Measurements by Multi-Beam SEM Imaging,” published in Experimental Mechanics (Vol. 63-5, pp. 939-953, 2023), has been recognized as the best research …

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UIUC’s Jean-Charles Stinville is part of a team that just won a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its recently launched Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of ALloy Structures (METALS) program. The project is being led by Morad Behandish of SRI. DARPA METALS supports work with potential to move beyond today’s one-material-per-part …

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Jean-Charles Stinville is the 2024 recipient of the National Science Foundation‘s Faculty Early Career Development Program – NSF CAREER Award for his work in Fatigue of Metallic Materials. His goal is to Leveraging Plastic Deformation Mechanisms Interactions in Metallic Materials to Access Extraordinary Fatigue Strength. Metallic materials used in structural engineering are vital to a …

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Jean-Charles Stinville is the 2023 recipient of the American Chemical Society New Direction Award for his work on Post-instability Induced by Phase Change on Dynamic Fracture in Macroporous Materials Exploration of unconventional reservoirs such as gas and oil shales has become an essential natural gas and oil source in North America. Hydraulic fracturing is the …

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