Dr. Samit Roy – College of Engineering | The University of Alabama

William D. Jordan Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, Center for Advanced Vehicle Technologies

1001 NERC
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Education

Multi-scale multi-physics modeling and performance prediction of composite materials and structures in high-temperature environments
Testing and life-prediction of composites in aggressive hygro-thermal environments
Scalable manufacturing of carbon nanotube sheet overwrapped carbon fibers for high interfacial strength carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites
Out-of-autoclave manufacturing of thermoset and thermoplastic composites
Manufacturing and characterization of self-healing thermoset composites with embedded thermoplastic particles and shape memory polymer (SMP) filaments
Fracture and fatigue testing to determine mechanisms at the micro/nanoscale for toughness enhancement in composites
Structural health management and damage prognosis using embedded actuators and sensors

Outstanding Research Award in Composites, American Society for Composites, 2019

AEM Outstanding Ph.D. Mentoring Award, University of Alabama, 2017
Awarded Summer Faculty Fellowship by Air Force Research Laboratory/RXCC, Dayton, Ohio, June 6-July 29, 2016
Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME, 2010
Associate Fellow of American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA, 2007

Xuemin Wang, T. Xu, P. Kokkada, S. Roy, R. Baughman, and H. Lu, Modeling the Compressive Buckling Strain as a Function of the Nanocomposite Interphase Thickness in a Carbon Nanotube Sheet Wrapped Carbon Fiber Composite, Journal of Applied Mechanics, October 2019, Vol. 86 / 101007-1.
Pruthul Kokkada, S. Roy, V. Unnikrishnan, and H. Lu, A Multiscale Model to Study the Enhancement in the Compressive Strength of Multi-walled CNT Sheet Overwrapped Carbon Fiber Composites, Composite Structures, 219, July 2019, pp. 170-178.
Sushan Nakarmi, Tanvir Sohail, and Samit Roy, An Investigation of Flaw-Size Independence of Cohesive Traction- Separation Law at the Nanoscale: A Molecular Dynamics Study, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 215 (2019), pp. 235-245.
Roy and A. Roy, A Computational Investigation of Length-Scale Effects in the Fracture Behavior of a Graphene Sheet using the Atomistic J-Integral, Engineering Fracture Mechanics 207 (2019) pp. 165–180 .
Bodiuzzaman, M. Thapa, S. Mulani, and S. Roy, Repeatable Self-Healing of Thermosetting Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites with Thermoplastic Healant, Smart Materials and Structures 28 (2019) 025037 (13pp).