The grant allowed the College to recruit students from off campus. In addition to the students funded through Intel we were able to involve the US Army Research Laboratory and the Graduate College in supporting other recruited students. Thus, a total of fifteen students were involved in Engineering related projects for the summer. Candice worked with Dr. Harry Hilton and Dr. Cristina Beldica in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and also the ARL PET program. This investigation examines static and dynamic aeroelastic phenomenon in viscoelastic flight structures with piezoelectric control elements.
Viscoelastic materials reveal an increasing deformation in time under constant load.
Examples of such materials are metals at elevated temperatures, plastics, and composite materials. These types of materials are extensively used in the aeronautical industry because of their superior mechanical properties and low weight. However, their behavior is more complicated than that of traditional materials, because their mechanical properties are time dependent. The corresponding constitutive relations are usually expressed as integral equations derived from mechanical models, such as Maxwell, Kelvin, or combinations. As a member of the of the NCSA ASC PET research team of Drs.