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Research Highlights

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  • Figure from research conducted by Nirupam Aich and his AichLENS group.
    Nanomaterials underground and the effect of dimensionality on water treatment
    8/2/18

    Assistant professor Nirupam Aich and his AichLENSE lab group collaborated with the United States Environmental Protection Agency on projects dealing with nanomaterials

    • 5/22/18 Read more about Aich's research here
  • Xiao Liang and Minghui Zheng in UB's SMART lab.
    Human-Robot Collaboration
    11/18/21
    The NSF-funded Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) project will advance effective human-robot collaboration (HRC) to reduce electronics remanufacturing costs and improve operator safety, while considering the highly complex unstructured nature of the remanufacturing environment.
  • Nuclear reactor in a science institute indoors.
    Integrating seismic protection systems into nuclear power plants
    11/23/21
    All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
  • Assistant professor Negar Elhami Khorasani.
    Fire protection for railway tunnels
    2/12/20

    This research examines the expected structural damage in a tunnel during a fire event, and concludes that, although safety may not be compromised, significant damage to the tunnel structure could be incurred.

    • 4/19/18 Learn about fire protection at this link
  • Environmental engineering PhD student Abdulrahman Hassaballah presents research at conference in New York City.
    Environmental Engineers present solutions to water and wastewater challenges
    1/13/20

    MS environmental engineering student Kristina Macro, PhD environmental engineering student Abdulraham Hassaballah and environmental engineering undergraduate student Jeremy Nyitrai presented research on water and wastewater at the 2018 NYWEA conference. The group was advised by environmental engineering faculty members Lauren Sassoubre and Ning Dai

    • 3/13/18 Learn more about their research here
  • Professor Negar Elhami Khorasani, with the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, works with students near a high temperature furnace in Ketter Hall in October 2019. They are researching how elevated temperatures affect the mechanical properties of steel, concrete and other cementitious materials. Photographer: Douglas Levere.
    Tunnel Fire Project
    11/18/21
    The objective of this project is to establish fire damage to reinforced concrete tunnel liners using numerical modeling and experimental testing. Researchers at UB performed large-scale furnace testing as well as finite element modeling to test and simulate the effects of fire scenario, soil conditions, etc. on the fire performance of tunnel liners.
  • Seyed Omid Sajedi, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, kicked off the presentations with his research on artificially intelligent systems for rapid post-earthquake inspections.
    Vision-Based Planning and Control in Support of Autonomous Inspection, Maintenance and Repair
    11/18/21
    Robots can be leveraged to perform maintenance and repairs because of their mixed mobility and reconfigurability in a challenging work environment. Xiao Liang identifies four tasks to integrate computer vision models with robotic systems to automate inspection and maintenance.
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Computational Engineering Mechanics

Electronics Packaging Lab.

Research in computational engineering mechanics involves the application of the fundamental principles of solid and fluid mechanics to a variety of emerging engineering problems, using state-of-the-science numerical algorithms and high-performance computing technology.

Faculty

  • Amjad J. Aref
  • Cemal Basaran
  • Jongmin Shim
  • Mettupalayam Sivaselvan

Centers and Labs

  • Electronic Packaging Laboratory

Featured PhD Projects

  • 5/17/17 Analysis of Carbon Nanotubes under Electrical and Mechanical Stresses
  • 5/17/17 Damage Mechanics of Electromigration and Thermomigration in Electronics Packaging Solder Joints Under Time Varying Current Loading
  • 5/17/17 A Multiscale Modeling Technique for Bridging Molecular Dynamics with Finite Element Method

Featured Research Projects

  • 5/17/17 Development of a Graphene Nano Ribbon Based Power Electronics
  • 5/17/17 Reliability of Power Electronics in Extreme Cold Temperatures
  • 5/17/17 EAGER: Tuning granular phononic crystals through pattern transformations
  • 5/17/17 Spectral band-structure identification of amplitude-dependent viscoelastic mechanical metamaterials
  • 5/17/17 Unification of Mechanics and Thermodynamics

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Research Highlights

previous next
  • Professor Negar Elhami Khorasani, with the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, works with students near a high temperature furnace in Ketter Hall in October 2019. They are researching how elevated temperatures affect the mechanical properties of steel, concrete and other cementitious materials. Photographer: Douglas Levere.
    Tunnel Fire Project
    11/18/21
    The objective of this project is to establish fire damage to reinforced concrete tunnel liners using numerical modeling and experimental testing. Researchers at UB performed large-scale furnace testing as well as finite element modeling to test and simulate the effects of fire scenario, soil conditions, etc. on the fire performance of tunnel liners.
  • Xiao Liang and Minghui Zheng in UB's SMART lab.
    Human-Robot Collaboration
    11/18/21
    The NSF-funded Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) project will advance effective human-robot collaboration (HRC) to reduce electronics remanufacturing costs and improve operator safety, while considering the highly complex unstructured nature of the remanufacturing environment.
  • Nuclear reactor in a science institute indoors.
    Integrating seismic protection systems into nuclear power plants
    11/23/21
    All nuclear power plants are required to have a significant level of resistance to the effects of earthquake shaking, but the safety-grade nuclear equipment is generally large and routinely custom-made for each nuclear plant. Whittaker’s team will simplify plant design and standardize the equipment to drive down cost and speed construction.
  • Figure from research conducted by Nirupam Aich and his AichLENS group.
    Nanomaterials underground and the effect of dimensionality on water treatment
    8/2/18

    Assistant professor Nirupam Aich and his AichLENSE lab group collaborated with the United States Environmental Protection Agency on projects dealing with nanomaterials

    • 5/22/18 Read more about Aich's research here
  • Assistant professor Negar Elhami Khorasani.
    Fire protection for railway tunnels
    2/12/20

    This research examines the expected structural damage in a tunnel during a fire event, and concludes that, although safety may not be compromised, significant damage to the tunnel structure could be incurred.

    • 4/19/18 Learn about fire protection at this link
  • Seyed Omid Sajedi, a PhD candidate in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, kicked off the presentations with his research on artificially intelligent systems for rapid post-earthquake inspections.
    Vision-Based Planning and Control in Support of Autonomous Inspection, Maintenance and Repair
    11/18/21
    Robots can be leveraged to perform maintenance and repairs because of their mixed mobility and reconfigurability in a challenging work environment. Xiao Liang identifies four tasks to integrate computer vision models with robotic systems to automate inspection and maintenance.
  • Environmental engineering PhD student Abdulrahman Hassaballah presents research at conference in New York City.
    Environmental Engineers present solutions to water and wastewater challenges
    1/13/20

    MS environmental engineering student Kristina Macro, PhD environmental engineering student Abdulraham Hassaballah and environmental engineering undergraduate student Jeremy Nyitrai presented research on water and wastewater at the 2018 NYWEA conference. The group was advised by environmental engineering faculty members Lauren Sassoubre and Ning Dai

    • 3/13/18 Learn more about their research here
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