Samantha Daly

Samantha Daly

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Michigan
2138 G.G. Brown
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

    E-mail:samdaly@umich.edu     Phone:(734)763-8137     Fax:(734)647-9379   


    Research Interests      Publications      Teaching      Recent Honours and Awards

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Research Interests
My research interests lie in the application of experimental mechanics to materials science in an effort to characterize the multi-scale mechanics of materials. There is an emphasis on novel methods of multi-scale experimentation coupled strongly to theoretical and computational modeling. Specific interests include microstructural features of materials; effect of microstructure on macroscopic properties; material behavior at the nanoscale; novel methods of multi-scale material characterization; active materials; plasticity and phase transformations; deformation mechanisms of biomaterials.

I currently have openings for graduate students. E-mail samdaly@umich.edu for more information.

Teaching Winter 2008
ME519 Theory of Plasticity I

Recent Honours and Awards
Charles D. Babcock Award, 2007.
Everhart Speaker Award, 2007.

Publications
[1] S.Daly, G.Ravichandran, K.Bhattacharya. Stress-Induced Martensitic Transformation in Thin Sheets of Nitinol. Acta Materialia, 55:3593-3600, 2007.
[2] S.Daly, A.Miller, G.Ravichandran, K.Bhattacharya. An Experimental Investigation of Crack Initiation in Thin Sheets of Nitinol. Acta Materialia, 55:6322-6330, 2007.
[3] S.Daly, D.Rittel, G.Ravichandran, K.Bhattacharya. Large Deformation of Nitinol Under Shear Dominant Loading. Experimental Mechanics, Special Issue Honoring Clifton , Submitted.
[4] A.Dorogoy, D.Rittel, S.Daly. Finite Element Analysis of Nitinol under Large Deformation Shear Loading. In progress.
[5] S.Daly, G.Ravichandran, K.Bhattacharya. Small-Scale Transformation Analysis of Nitinol Near a Crack Tip under Plane Stress Conditions. In progress.
[6] N.Yankielun, M.Ferrick, S.Feakins. Use of Millimeter-Wave FM-CW Radar to Profile River Ice Thickness. 2005 Committee on River Ice Processes and the Environment (CGU-HS).
[7] S.Feakins, D.MacMartin, R.Murray. Dynamic Separation Control in a Low-Speed Asymmetric Diffuser with Varying Downstream Boundary Condition. 2003 AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference Proceedings.