Team

Principal Investigator

Mehdi Amiri is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at George Mason University. He joined Mason in Spring 2019 and since then he is enjoying training and mentoring the next generation of talented mechanical engineers. His research interests focus on the behavior of structural materials under operational conditions, in particular the effects of materials microstructure on performance under mechanical and environmental loadings. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Louisiana State University in 2011.

Ph.D. Students

Leila Saberi joined RMFLab in Fall 2019 as a Ph.D. student. She received her Master of Science in Iran in 2013 and Master of engineering in 2019 from Lamar University, TX in mechanical engineering. She is now working on corrosion of additively manufactured stainless steels and the atmospheric corrosion of metals in simulation and experimental methods and its practical features. She has skilled in CATIA, MATLAB, COMSOL, ANSYS (APDL Scripting) and has learned to work with SEM, XRD, 3D painters and Nanoindentation. In her leisure time, she likes watching movies, reading books and playing tennis.

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Samuel Onimpa Alfred joined the Reliability and Mechanics of Failure Lab in Spring 2021. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Benin, Nigeria and Master of Science and Master of Engineering degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Portsmouth, England and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York respectively. He is interested in data-driven techniques applicable to problems in Structural Integrity and Computational Mechanics.   

Undergraduate Students

Benjamin Diego Fuentes Brock joined RMFLab in Fall 2022 as an undergraduate research student. Ben’s research interests consist of examining chemical and mechanical properties of metals through experimental methods. More specifically, he plans to utilize the URSP Award, along with the lab’s In-Situ Micro-Fatigue Testing Device, to characterize the relationship between corrosion and fatigue life of additively manufactured titanium alloys.