COSMOS lab wins research award by DARPA under the Polyplexus Pilot program to investigate mechanics of stress corrosion cracking (SCC).

Congratulations to Hossein Ebrahimi for being selected to receive the Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The Frank Hubbard Engineering Endowed Scholarship awards $1,000 over the two semesters. Qualifications for the scholarship are full-time status as a graduate or undergraduate student in engineering, and a minimum 3.0 G.P.A. Extracurricular activities and…

Congratulations to Hessein Ali for being selected to receive the David T. & Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. The David T. & Jane M. Donaldson Memorial Scholarship awards $5,000 over the course of a year. Applicants must be full or part-time graduate students in engineering or computer science with a…

Congratulations to Jeremy Stephen for defending his thesis titled ‘Contact Mechanics of Fish Scale Inspired Exoskeletal Components on a Nonlinear Elastic Substrate’ . In this work Jeremy investigated the the response of a substrate with stiff scales protruding from its surface, which is comprised of a soft elastomeric material with properties typical of those in…

COSMOS Director Ranajay Ghosh wins 2019 NSF CAREER Award from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures program in the Division of Engineering. UCF TODAY reported — UCF leads the state and ranks third in the nation for the number of National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipients this year. UCF has 11 confirmed awards as of…

Dr. Ranajay Ghosh presents paper titled “Tailorable Stiffness Lightweight Soft Robotic Materials with Architectured Exoskeleton” at the AIAA SciTech 2020 Forum in Orlando. This conference is started at Jan 6th 2020 and will end at Jan 10th 2020. The presented paper is now available online at this Link.

Congratulations to Hossein Ebrahimi for defending his candidacy. Hossein joined to COSMOS Lab at Fall 2016 as the first PhD student of the COSMOS Lab. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He does research in Solid Mechanics, Bioinspired Metamaterial and Computational…

Congratulations to Hessein Ali for defending his candidacy. Hessein joined to COSMOS Lab at Spring 2017. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Central Florida. He does research on biological structures for the design of synthetic materials focusing on biomimetic scales. Some of his…

Phoenix, Arizona 25th February 2019 Peter Warren was first author on a publication to the 2019 Turbomachinery Conference and Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona. The paper is being considered for journal publication and was nominated for Best Paper. Peter got to work closely two engineers from Siemens on this work (Jason Williams and Paul Zombo), and…

Phoenix, Arizona 20th February 2019   Peter Warren was first author on a paper that was accepted for presentation at the 2019 Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition in Phoenix, Arizona. The work was titled “Modeling Thermally Grown Oxides in Thermal Barrier Coatings using Koch Fractal.” This work was a new and innovative method of modeling…