Pedro Peralta

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Professor Peralta joined Arizona State University’s School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy in 1998 and received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Award in 2000 and the Senior Orr Award for best paper in fatigue and fracture from the ASME Materials Division in 2004. His research focuses on mechanics of materials, fatigue and fracture of metallic alloys, dynamic and shock loading of metallic and intermetallic materials with emphasis on effects of anisotropy and grain boundaries on mechanical behavior and failure.

Total mentored projects: 7

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Fall 2020

Sebastian Garcia Peralta

Mechanical engineering

Can Shocks Produced from Perturbed Bimaterial Interfaces be Used to Estimate Dynamic Strength?

Performing experimental measurements of propagation of shock waves in metallic samples will help estimate dynamic strength of materials.

Program: FURI

Spring 2020

Lily Catherine Baye-Wallace

Mechanical engineering

Kinetics of Dynamic Damage Growth in Metals from Characterization and Simulations of Shock Loading Experiments

Understanding the mechanisms for damage growth is key to the development of predictable defense and armor systems.

Program: FURI

Sebastian Garcia Peralta

Mechanical engineering

How Does the Dynamic Strength of a Material Affect the Velocity of Particles at a Perturbed Shock Front and Can This Be Used to Estimate Dynamic Strength in Solids?

Studying the particle velocity at different locations of a rippled shock front provides a potential new technique to evaluate dynamic strength.

Program: FURI

Fall 2019

Lily Catherine Baye-Wallace

Mechanical engineering

Kinetics of Dynamic Damage Growth in Metals from Characterization and Simulations of Shock Loading Experiments

Improving the knowledge-base of damage propagation through materials will help develop protection systems.

Program: FURI

Samuel Paul Moehring

Mechanical engineering

Thermal Creep Resistant Nickel Super Alloys with Nontraditional Alloying Elements

Studying the effects of non-traditional alloying elements in nickel can lead to stronger materials for high temperature use.

Program: FURI

Spring 2019

Nicholas Ryan Middlebrook

Mechanical engineering

Effects of Pressure on the Volumetric Response (Compressibility) of Elastomers During Ballistic and Dynamic Loading

An understanding of the compressibility of polymers under ballistic loading conditions will help improve armor systems.

Program: FURI

Spring 2018

Yida Tong

Mechanical engineering

Finite Element Modeling of Micro-scale Bending Testing of Nuclear Reactor Materials

Program: FURI

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