{"id":1365,"date":"2024-02-12T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T18:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle1stg.wpenginepowered.com\/mse\/?page_id=1365"},"modified":"2025-10-28T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T19:44:34","slug":"structural-materials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/research\/structural-materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1357\" src=\"\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/05\/mse-lab-student.jpg\" alt=\"Student working in the yellow room and scintillator growth chamber\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Structural materials are the backbone of engineering, defining the strength, durability, and resilience of everything from buildings and bridges to airplanes and automobiles. This field is ideal for those who aspire to engineer the materials that shape our infrastructure and want to contribute to the development of lighter, stronger, and more sustainable materials that can withstand the test of time and the challenges of our environment.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"orange-mark\">Participating Faculty<\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 30px\">We have several faculty who work in computational materials science. Explore their research interests and their profiles below.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Researcher Row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"researcher-row\">\n<p><!-- Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column\">\n<div class=\"researchProfile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profileImage alignnone size-full\" src=\"\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/hahn-choo.jpg\" alt=\"Hahn Choo\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard researchProfileCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Hahn Choo<\/h3>\n<p>Professor &amp; Associate Department Head<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/mse\/faculty\/hahn-choo\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Mechanical behavior of materials; neutron and synchrotron x-ray diffraction; amorphous, nanocrystalline, and ultrafine-grained alloys; and advanced structural alloys and neutron\/synchrotron X-ray diffraction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column\">\n<div class=\"researchProfile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profileImage alignnone wp-image-484 size-full\" src=\"\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Gao-Yanfei.jpg\" alt=\"Yanfei Gao\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Gao-Yanfei.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Gao-Yanfei-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard researchProfileCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Yanfei Gao<\/h3>\n<p>Professor &amp; Associate Department Head<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/mse\/faculty\/yanfei-gao\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Analytical and computational mechanics of materials; small scale mechanical behavior; failure of advanced structural materials; thin film heterostructures; contact and friction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column\">\n<div class=\"researchProfile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profileImage alignnone wp-image-484 size-full\" src=\"\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/veerle-keppens.jpg\" alt=\"Veerle Keppens\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard researchProfileCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Veerle Keppens<\/h3>\n<p>Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/mse\/faculty\/veerle-keppens\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Elastic constants and lattice dynamics of novel materials, including transition metal oxides; frustrated magnets and spin glasses; and thermoelectric materials<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- End Researcher Row --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Researcher Row --><\/p>\n<div class=\"researcher-row\">\n<p><!-- Faculty Profile --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column\">\n<div class=\"researchProfile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"profileImage alignnone size-full\" src=\"\/mse\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/10\/Liaw-Peter.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Liaw\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard researchProfileCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Peter Liaw<\/h3>\n<p>John Fisher Professor, Ivan Racheff Chair of Excellence, National Alumni Association Distinguished Service Professor<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/mse\/faculty\/peter-liaw\/\">Profile<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Mechanical behavior; fatigue and fracture behavior; nondestructive-evaluation; neutron\/synchrotron studies of advanced materials, including bulk-metallic glasses, nano-structural materials, high-entropy alloys, superalloys, steels, and intermetallics; NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship 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