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W. Steven Johnson
Professor and Director
Composites Education and Research Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
Materials Science and Engineering
771 Ferst Drive, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0245
Office: Bunger-Henry, Room 122
Phone: 404.894.3013 | Fax: 404.894.9140
steve.johnson@mse.gatech.edu
B.S. Engineering Science and Mechanics, 1971, VPI&SU
M.S. Engineering Science and Mechanics, 1975, VPI&SU
Ph.D. Solid and Structural Mechanics, 1979, Duke University
Dr. Johnson is also a professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of Georgia Tech's Composites Education and Research Center (CERC) and the Associate
Director of the Mechanical Properties Research Laboratory (MPRL).
He has over thirty years of experience studying failure mechanisms in a wide range of material systems for aeronautical, space and naval applications. He has pioneered several
life predictive methodologies for metallics, bonded structures and metal matrix composites. From 1979 to joining Georgia Tech in June 1994, Dr. Johnson was employed at the NASA
Langley Research Center as a Senior Scientist. He led several research teams during that period. During the last four years he led the Material Durability Program for the High Speed
Civil Transport (HSCT) and served as Principal Investigator for developing life prediction methodologies to be employed on the National AeroSpace Plane (NASP). These programs
were charged with developing life predictive methodology and assessing the long term durability of materials to be used on these very advanced aircraft.
Dr. Johnson also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Composites Technology and Research (1990-2000), Chairman of ASTM Subcommittee D-30.07 on Metal Matrix
Composites and Chairman of VAMAS TWA15 on Metal Matrix Composites. Dr. Johnson has over 125 publications, has edited six books, and has delivered numerous invited
keynote addresses at both national and international conferences. Dr. Johnson is a member of ASTM, ASM, ASME, Adhesion Society and ASC. He is currently chair of the High
Temperature and Environmental Effect Division of the American Society for Composites. He is a Fellow of ASM International, ASTM, ASME, Fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace, and also Fellow of the American Society for Composites.
Dr. Johnson’s research has been funded by the FAA, ONR, NASA-LARC, NASA-MSFC, Delta Air Lines, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, and GE Power Systems.
Research Interests
- Fatigue, fracture and durability of advanced aerospace materials and structures
- Extreme temperature applications of both metallics and composite materials
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