MOHAMMED A. ZIKRY
Professor

Education
Ph.D., Applied Mechanics, University of California - San Diego 1990
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1986
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Kansas

Research Interests

• Computational Modeling and Mechanics:  hierarchical models spanning the nano to the macro scales; prediction of material and structural response based on physically based material models
  
  
• Failure models for heterogeneous ductile and brittle systems: fracture mechanics; plasticity; microstructural effects due to grain-boundaries, cell walls, sub-grains and grain morphology
  
  
• Dynamic behavior of structures and materials: stress waves in solids; structural dynamics; mechanical behavior of composite structures subjected to high impact velocities; grain-boundary and interfacial effects
  
  
• Experimental Solid Mechanics: AFM, TEM, and SEM quantitative measurements of nano and micro failure surfaces; universal scaling laws, dynamic failure
  
  
• Micromechanics: strengthening and toughening mechanisms in composites; mechanical behavior and structural integrity; mechanical response of ceramics, intermetallics, and polymers; interfacial fracture mechanics
  
  
• Active materials: structural stability and design of smart structures and materials; integration of embedded devices within host systems

Professional Experience
Full Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University , Raleigh , North Carolina   2002-Present

Professeur, Premiere Classe, Troiseme Echelon, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg , France , July-October, 2002

Associate Professor, Tenured, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University , Raleigh , North Carolina 1996-2001

Senior Scientific Advisor, Solid Mechanics Branch, Engineering Sciences Division, Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park , NC October, 1996-August, 2000

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 1990-1995

Advanced Materials Research Fellowship, Center for Advanced Materials University of California , San Diego  October 1986-June 1990

NASA Graduate Research Fellow Johns Hopkins University and NASA Langley September 1985-September 1986

NASA Summer Research Fellow, NASA Langley June 1985-September 1985

Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical Engineering Johns Hopkins University August 1985-June 1986

Research and Development Engineer Babcock and Wilcox, Barberton , Ohio 1984- 1985

Honors
ALCOA Senior Research Award, North Carolina State University, 2007

Senior Fulbright Research Award, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt and France, 1/12/2005-8/12/2006

ASME Fellow, 2004

Professeur, Premiere Classe, Troiseme Echelon, Université Louis g, Strasbourg, France, July-October, 2002

Ralph Teetor Educational Award, Society of Automotive Engineering, 2001

Regional Editor, Journal of Mechanics of Materials, 1999-Present

ASME National Materials Division, Executive Committee, 2007-10

Fulbright Specialist peer Review Committee, 2007-Present

International Juror, Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Competence Materials Centers, 2007

One of the top 25 downloadable papers for 2005, Composites Part A, for J.N. Baucom and M.A. Zikry, Low-velocity Impact Damage Progression in Woven E-Glass Composite Systems,Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, 36 (5), 658-664

Chair, Joint ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Division Constitutive Equations Committee, 2004-2007

Vice-Chair, Joint ASME Applied Mechanics and Materials Division Constitutive Equations Committee, 2001-2004

Key Reader, Editorial Board, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, January 2002- December 2004

Nomination Committee for Computational Sciences for Japan Prize, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, 2001-2003

Undergraduate Faculty Mentor, Park Scholars, NCSU

Sigma Xi

Du Pont Young Faculty Development Award, 1990

NSF Research Initiation Award

Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego

Advanced Materials Research Fellowship, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials, University of California, San Diego

NASA Graduate Fellowship

Professional Societies
American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Materials Research Society

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

American Academy of Mechanics

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

United States Association for Computational Mechanics

Ten Selected Publications
O. Rezvanian and M.A. Zikry (2007), Statistically Stored, Geometrically Necessary and Grain Boundary Dislocation Densities: Microstructural Representation and Modelling, Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society Of London. Series A, Mathematical, Physical And Engineering Sciences, 463/ 2087, 2833-2853

O. Rezvanian, M.A. Zikry, C. Brown, and J. Krim (2007), Surface Roughness, Asperity Contact, and Gold RF MEMS Switch Behavior, Journal of Micromechanics and MicroEngineering, 17,  2006-2015

J. Pearson, M. Zikry, M. Prabhugoud and K. Peters (2007), Global-Local Assessment of Low-Velocity Impact Damage in Woven Composites, Journal of Composite Materials, 41(23), 2759-2783

Jeong Beom Ma, M.A. Zikry, W.M. Ashmawi, And D. W. Brenner (2007), Hierarchical Modeling Of Nanoindentation and Microstructural Evolution Of F.C.C. Gold Aggregates, Journal of  Materials Research, 22 (3) 627-643

 T. Kameda, and M.A. Zikry, (2006), Modeling of Grain-Boundary Effects and Intergranular and Trangranular Failure in Polycrystalline Intermetallics, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A , 37A, 2107-2120

A.M. Rajendran, W.M. Ashmawi, M.A. Zikry (2006), The Modeling of the Shock Response of Powdered Ceramic Materials, Computational Mechanics, 38, 1-13

J.N. Baucom and M.A. Zikry (2005), Low-velocity Impact Damage Progression in Woven E-Glass Composite Systems, Composites Part A, Applied Science and Manufacturing, 36 (5), 658-664

W.M. Ashmawi, M.A. Zikry, K. Wang, R. R. Reeber (2004), Modeling of Residual Stresses for Thermally Strained GaN/Al2O3 Heterostructures, Journal of Crystal Growth, 266, pp. 415-422

W.M. Ashmawi and M.A. Zikry (2003), Void Morphology and Grain-Boundary Effects in Crystalline Materials, Materials Science and Engineering A 343, pp. 126-142

W.M. Ashmawi and M.A. Zikry (2003), Void Nucleation and Grain-Boundary Interfacial Properties in Ductile Materials, Philosophical Magazine Part A, 83, pp. 3917-3944

J.N. Baucom and M.A. Zikry (2003), Evolution of Failure Mechanisms in 2D and 3D Woven Composite Systems under Quasi-Static Perforation, Journal of Composite Materials, 37 (18): pp. 1651-1674

M.A. Zikry, M. Pothier, and J. N. Baucom (2000), High Strain-Rate Shear Localization and Failure of F.C.C. Crystalline Materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 37, pp. 6177-620