Principal Investigator
Dhruv Bhate (ASU Bio Page)
– Associate Professor, The Polytechnic School,
– Affiliate Faculty, The Biomimicry Center,
– Graduate Faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport & Energy
Brief CV Industry Experience: 2015-17: Sr. Technologist (Additive Manufacturing), PADT Inc. 2008-15: Packaging R&D Engineer and Manager, Intel Corporation 2000-01: Engineering Co-Op, Tata Motors Education: 2008: PhD (Fatigue Modeling), Purdue University 2003: MS (MEMS Adhesion Modeling), University of Colorado at Boulder 2001: BS (Mechanical Engineering), College of Engineering, Pune
Postdoc
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Dr. Prince Jeya Lal Lazar (started Spring ’21)
Mechanics of Cellular Materials |
PhD Students
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Tyler Smith (started Fall’20)
Failure Modeling of Additively Manufactured Metallic Cellular Materials |
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Yash Mistry (started Summer ’20) Bio-inspired Cellular Materials with Additive Manufacturing |
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Cameron Noe (started Spring ’19)
Heat Pipes with Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Mandar Shinde (started Fall ’18)
Dynamic behavior and energy absorption in metallic cellular materials |
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Paul Paradise (started Fall ’18)
Process-Structure-Property Relationships for Thin Wall Inconel 718 Structures in Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Irving Edwin Ramirez Chavez (started Fall ’18)
Deformation and Energy Absorption in Aperiodic Cellular Materials |
MS Students
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Shawn Clonts (MS Thesis)
Surface modification with additive manufacturing for lunar dust mitigation |
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Athul Rajeev (MS Thesis)
On the role of node curvature in the mechanical behavior of cellular materials |
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Samuel Temes (MS Thesis)
High Temperature Mechanical Behavior of Inconel 718 thin walls with Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Anushree Saxena (MS Thesis)
Fatigue of Inconel 718 thin walls with Laser Powder Bed Fusion |
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Rajeshree Varma (MS Thesis)
Multi-material design and additive manufacturing |
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Jordan Yaple (MS Thesis)
Laser powder bed fusion of copper heat spreaders for thermal regulation |
Undergraduates
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Andrew Sarrasin
Laser Powder Fusion of Copper for Thermal Management Applications |
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Nicole Van Handel
Measurement Science in Metal Additive Manufacturing: Density, Surface Roughness, Dimension |
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Andrew Fechter (Honors Thesis)
Additively manufactured micro-channels for thermal regulation |
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Jaimee Andreotti (Honors Thesis)
3D Print-in-place Self Locking Hinges |
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Austin Suder
Mechanical Behavior of Thin Wall Inconel 718 |
Alumni (updated 09/2020)
- MS
- Undergraduates
Research Collaborators
Academia
- Prof. Clint Penick, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology, at Kennesaw State University
- Prof. Nikhilesh Chawla, Ransburg Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
- Prof. Christine Lee, Assistant Professor at the School of Art, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University
- Dr. Cahit Ozturk, Research Technologist at the Bee Lab, Arizona State University
- Prof. Kenan Song, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University
- Prof. Xiangfan Chen, Assistant Professor, Polytechnic School, Arizona State University
Industry
- Donald Godfrey, Senior Fellow, SLM Solutions, Inc.
- Rey Chu, Director at Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies, Inc.
- Dr. Alex Grishin, Consulting Engineer at Phoenix Analysis & Design Technologies, Inc.
- Magnus Ahlfors, Applications Engineer at Quintus Technologies, Inc.
- Peter Hushek, President and CEO, Phoenix Heat Treating, Inc.
Group Photos
November 2019
(left to right): Yash Mistry, Derek Goss, Daniel Bruce, Austin Suder, Dhruv Bhate, Mandar Shinde, Dhiraj Patil, Irving Ramirez Chavez, Daniel Anderson, Paul Paradise, Varun Agrawal, Cameron Noe. Picture credits: Kevin Steverson
