M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (2011) – Iowa State University
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering (2017) – Texas A&M University
Sameer Jape is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Aerospace Engineering working under the supervision of Dr. Darren Hartl and Dr. Dimitris Lagoudas. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University in May 2017 and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University in May 2011. His background is in the fracture mechanics of shape memory alloys (SMAs) with focus on finite element modeling of fracture of SMAs under actuation loading. His Ph.D. dissertation was titled “On the fracture toughness and stable crack growth in shape memory alloys under combined thermomechanical loading”. His current research is in the area of mechanical and electromagnetic analysis of active material-based self-folding origami antenna.
Current Research Project:
- Development, design, and fabrication of a self-folding origami antenna
Publications:
Journal Publications
- Jape, T. Baxevanis, D. Lagoudas, “On the fracture toughness and stable crack growth in shape memory alloy actuators in the presence of transformation-induced plasticity”, International Journal of Fracture (Accepted)
- Jape, T. Baxevanis, D. Lagoudas, “Stable crack growth during thermal actuation of shape memory alloys”, Shape Memory and Superelasticity 2 (2016) 104113
- Exploring the effect of stick-slip friction transition across tape-roller interface on the transmission of lateral vibration, SS Jape, B Ganapathysubramanian, JA Wickert, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 48 (3), 1189-1199
Conference Proceedings
- Phillips, S. Jape, T. Baxevanis, and D. C. Lagoudas. “Effect of Triaxiality on Phase Transformation in NI50.8TI Notched Cylindrical Bars”, 25th AIAA/AHS Adaptive Structures Conference, AIAA SciTech Forum, (AIAA 2017-1674) (https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2017-1674)
- Jape, T. Baxevanis, A. Solomou, D. Lagoudas, “Fracture toughness of shape memory alloy actuators: effect of transformation-induced plasticity”, in: Proceedings of the SPIE 9800, Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites, Vol. 9800, 2016, pp. 98000C(1-10) (https://doi: 10.1117/12.2219495)
- Jape, A. Parrinello, T. Baxevanis, D. Lagoudas, “On the fracture response of shape memory alloy actuators”, Proceedings of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (Eds.), Middle East – Mediterranean Materials Congress on Energy and Infrastructure Systems (MEMA 2015) 2015, ch17.
S. Jape, T. Baxevanis, D.C. Lagoudas , “Stable crack growth during actuation in shape memory alloys”, Proceedings of the SPIE 9058, Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and