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Infrastructure

The aging of infrastructure and the effects from natural disasters, accidents, and terrorist threats, makes this a grand challenge for society as a whole. Not only is the repair of infrastructure following major disasters cost prohibitive, so is its maintenance due to aging. Materials play an important role in terms of designing cost-effective and sustainable solutions from which the infrastructure is built, while ensuring environmental, energy, and aesthetic considerations, as well as for developing methods that ensure prevention, diagnostics, and repair of failed systems. Corrosion of infrastructure materials, such as in gas pipelines, power plants, as well as in paper (and other materials) manufacturing industries, design of novel construction materials and methodologies, understanding of aging and life cycle prediction from various mechanisms of failure of infrastructure materials, and development of coatings, sensors, and monitoring systems to prevent catastrophic failure, are some of the research areas being pursued by MSE faculty.

The faculty listed below, have identified their primary research in the area of Infrastructure as the grand challenge being addressed in their work.

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Assistant Professor
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Hamid Garmestani
Professor
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Arun Gokhale
Professor
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Josh Kacher
Assistant Professor
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Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Professor
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Mo Li
Mo Li
Professor
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David McDowell
Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing, Regents' Professor, Executive Director, Georgia Tech Institute for Materials
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Christopher Muhlstein
Associate Director MPRL and Associate Professor
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Parachuru, Radhakrishnaiah
Radhakrishnaiah Parachuru
Senior Academic Professional
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Dong Qin
Associate Professor
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Rampi Ramprasad
Michael E. Tennenbaum Family Chair , Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Energy Sustainability
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John Reynolds
Professor, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
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Meisha Shofner
Associate Professor,
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Preet Singh
Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
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Mohan Srinivasarao
Professor
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Aaron Stebner
Associate Professor,
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Natalie Stingelin
Professor
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Naresh Thadhani
Professor & Chair
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Eric Vogel
Deputy Director of the Institute for Electronics and Nanotechnology (IEN) Associate Director for Shared Resources of the Institute for Materials (IMat)
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Youjiang Wang
Professor
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Gleb Yushin - 2018
Gleb Yushin
Professor
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