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Engineering professor receives Sigma Xi Award for Outstanding Research |
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Jacob Corkins |
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Nov 19, 2008
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This year’s recipient of the Sigma Xi/Dion D. Raftopoulos Award for Outstanding Research is Dr. Ali Fatemi, UT professor of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, for his work involving fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures.
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| Dr. Ali Fatemi observed the data being generated from a fatigue test of stainless steel while Julie Colin, a PhD student, looked on. Electricite de France funded Fatemi’s project as stainless steel is used in the cooling system of nuclear power plants. |
Fatemi was presented the award and a check for $1,500 at the Sigma Xi Annual Banquet Nov. 5.
“It is a great honor to receive this award; because it is an annual award, I know the competition is strong,” Fatemi said. “My achievements could not have happened without my students and, really, this award is a reflection for their hard work as well.”
Internationally renowned for his work on fatigue damage and life prediction of cyclic loaded components, several of Fatemi’s fatigue models are among the best-known and most commonly used models for life predictions.
“Industries from as far as France have sought Fatemi’s research expertise to find solutions to their challenging materials problems,” said Dr. Abdollah Afjeh, professor and chair of mechanical, industrial and manufacturing engineering, who nominated Fatemi. “It is time that his dedication and research quality is recognized by Sigma Xi.”
The Fatemi-Socie critical plane model aims to improve fatigue life predictions in multiaxial and nonproportional loading situations. The paper where the model was first introduced has more than 180 citations.
Dr. Cyndee Lee Gruden, assistant professor of civil engineering and chair of UT’s Sigma Xi, said, “Fatemi has already won awards for his research at the University, and I believe that they are all well-deserved.”
Fatemi has co-authored the second edition of a textbook titled
Metal Fatigue in Engineering, which has been reprinted five times since its first publication in 2000. He also has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles that have more than 600 citations, and he serves on the editorial board of the journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering.
He conducts most of his research in the state-of-the-art Fatigue and Fracture Research Laboratory, which he established in 1987. He has received $2.7 million in sponsored research funding as the principal investigator for 35 research projects.
Fatemi has directed dissertations of 13 doctoral students and theses of 22 master’s students as their major adviser. He said, “The award is really recognition of their efforts and accomplishments.”
In addition, he has received the College of Engineering Outstanding Research Faculty Award in 1998 and the UT Outstanding Research Award in 2002.
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