03/03/2025: ONR funded us to study the high-velocity impact damage in Hypersonic Materials.

01/31/2025: ARL funded us to study the pressure-dependent strength of nanocrystalline materials.

06/07/2024: Rushikesh, Mouliswar, Bodie, Vlad, and Pranav presented at the Society of Experimental Mechanics Conference in Portland.

12/18/2023: Bodie has been awarded UROP, Congratulations.

11/27/2023: The lab has been awarded the ARO funding to study shock structure in filled metamaterials.

08/15/2023: Albert Shaji and Jamshed Ochilov joined the lab as Ph.D. students.

07/13/2023: The lab has been awarded the DURIP funding from ONR for developing a laser shock facility.

04/23/2023: Peter Yip won the best poster award (quality) in the graduate student symposium, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. Congratulations.

02/15/2023: Rushikesh joined the lab as a Ph.D. student.

12/05/2022: Peter Yip is selected to attend the hands-on PDV session at  Los Alamos National Laboratory. Congratulations.

12/05/2022: Dr. Ravindran is invited to join the editorial board of Engineering Fracture Mechanics.  

11/01/2022: Dr. Ravindran was awarded the 2022 Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).  

10/17/2022: Dr. Ravindran gave an invited talk in the Engineering Science Medal Symposium honoring Prof. Michael Sutton at the Annual Society of Engineering Science Conference.

10/06/2022: Peter joined the lab as the first Ph.D. student.

09/20/2022: Mouliswar joined the lab for the master's research.

09/25/2022: Max, Bodie, Justin, Pranav, Vladimir, and Rick joined for their undergraduate research.