MOHAMMED A. ZIKRY
Professor

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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

SELECTED HONORS and AWARDS
Jefferson Science Fellow, U.S. State Department, 2008-Present

Research Excellence Award, NCSU, 2008

ALCOA Senior Research Award, North Carolina State University, 2007

Senior Fulbright Research Award, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, December 2005- August 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

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

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

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

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

Guest Editorial Board, Special Issue of Mechanics of Materials, "Experiments and Modeling of Solids," 2002

Editor with S. Ahzi, M. Cherakoui, H. Zbib, M. Khaleel, and B. Lamattina, IUTAM Volume on "Multiscale Modeling of Elastic-Inelastic Behavior of Engineering Materials," Kluwer Solid Mechanics And Its Applications Series, Volume 114, 2004

Guest Editor (with A.S. Khan and A.A. Tseng), "Modeling of Metal Forming," Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2005

Guest Editor, International Journal of Plasticity, "Heterogeneous Material Systems," 2001

Guest Editor, International Journal of Plasticity, "Deformation and Failure Modes in Multi-Phase Materials," 1998

Computational Mechanics Committee ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 1998-present