FAJRI Team

At FAJRI, a team of eight faculty and 10 full-time Ph.D. and M.S. graduate students are engaged in fundamental and applied research. Each faculty member is an expert in his/her field and directs a specialty research lab in one or more of the following areas:

• Fasteners and bolted joints, Sayed Nassar, Ph.D.
• Non-destructive testing (NDT), with focus on optics and ultrasonic, Sayed Nassar, Ph.D., and Lian Yang, Ph.D.
• Fastening and joining of plastics and composites, Sayed Nassar, Ph.D.
• Tribology of threaded fasteners (friction, lubrication and wear), Gary Barber, Ph.D., Qian (Beth) Zou, Ph.D., and Sayed Nassar, Ph.D.
• Analytical, numerical and experimental stress analysis, Sayed Nassar, Ph.D., Randy Gu, Ph.D., and Lorenzo Smith, Ph.D.
• Applied mathematics and statistics, Sayed Nassar, Ph.D., and Meir Shillor, Ph.D.