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Dr. Ahmed Al-Ostaz joined the faculty members at Ole Miss in January, 2002. Before coming to Ole Miss, Dr. Al-Ostaz was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Composite Materials and Structures Center and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Mechanics at Michigan State University. Dr. Al-Ostaz's primary teaching interests are in structural mechanics. His research interests are in micro and macro mechanics of composite materials, elasticity and fracture mechanics, computational and experimental mechanics, impact dynamics, nano-structured -materials, and repair and rehabilitation of concrete structures. Examples of some of his previous research areas include: investigating the size effect of shot particles in metal-matrix composites, Analysis of transversely isotropic hyperelastic biphasic cartilage under indentation load; Evaluating the durability of polymeric composite materials for infrastructure applications; identification of interfacial mechanical properties in composites and correlating the analytical results to the experimental ones obtained by the Micro Indentation Test (ITS); studying damage mechanisms in composite materials using numerical, analytical and experimental techniques; correlating the detailed microstructure morphology to the local damage initiation and propagation, the effective stress-strain response and the overall strength of composites with coated and randomly arranged inclusions using statistical data collected experimentally and numerically; developing a stochastic model to predict with confidence the probability of failure for both brittle and ductile materials; using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy as an NDE technique to detect damage in repaired concrete structures with FRP; evaluating electro-mechanical properties of nano-structured materials and their applications; and modeling engineering materials from atomic level to macro level. |
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