Shuaihang Pan
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
What are you trying to do? Articulate your objectives using absolutely no jargon.
Alloy design and non-traditional manufacturing catering to the needs where extreme conditions exist, including high temperature , highly corrosive environments, and highly complex systems like human body.
How is it done today, and what are the limits of current practice?
Alloy design has been developing by trial-and-error, which is time and labor consuming. With this, tailored non-traditional manufacturing has not caught up yet, with a huge gap to enable the application-oriented uses of alloys under extreme conditions.
What is new in your approach and why do you think it will be successful?
We follow new materials design approach of integrated computational materials engineering approach, which makes alloy design straightforward. With this, we bridge processing/manufacturing-structure-performance knowledge to enable critical alloy applications under extreme-condition service.
Who cares? If you are successful, what difference will it make?
Create truly useful new alloys and expand their applications in aerospace, defense, navy, and bio devices. More importantly, an one-stop alloy design, manufacturing optimization, and performance enhancement solution can be provided.