Student News & Events

1/2010 - Undergraduate Students Lyndsey Pohl and Eric Champion join the Daly Group.

2/2010 - Adam is awarded the Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship.

3/2010 - Kyubum passes the RFE component of the PhD Qualifying Examination.

5/2010 - PhD Student Jason Geathers joins the Daly Group.

5/2010 - Anne's "Nanotube Coil" image wins 3rd place in The University of Michigan's 2010 Imaging Microstructure Contest.

5/2010 - Adam passes the GCC component of the PhD Qualifying Examination.

Contact Info.

Prof. Samantha Daly

2138 G.G. Brown
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone: 734-763-8137

E-mail: samdaly@umich.edu

AMML Group

3121 G.G. Brown
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

E-mail: dalygroup@umich.edu

Research in the Daly Group

Specific areas of interest include:

Active materials
Microstructural features of materials
Effect of microstructure on macroscopic properties
Material behavior at the micro and nano scale
Novel methodologies for multi-scale material characterization
Strain gradient plasticity
Phase transformations
Fracture
Low and high cycle fatigue

Current Projects

Studies of Nickel-Titanium shape memory alloys during cyclic loading (Kyubum)

Mechanics of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires and cables (Ben)

Active composite materials and structures based on aligned carbon nanotube (CNT) forests (Anne)

Deformation and fracture mechanisms of nanostructured metals (Adam)

Funding Sources

Collaborators

Dr. Joel Bernier (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Prof. A. John Hart (ME, Univ. of Michigan) - Group
Prof. Wayne Jones (MSE, Univ. of Michigan) - bio
Prof. John Shaw (Aero., Univ. of Michigan) - bio