May 14 - 20, 2012

Faculty News

Research:

Profs. Philippe Bardet (MAE), Elias Balaras (MAE), and Majid Manzari (CEE) have received a three-year, $862,435 grant from the DOE Nuclear Energy University Program for their research project, "Validation data and model development for fuel assembly response to seismic loads." In collaboration with France's CEA (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission) and Argonne National Laboratory, they will perform multi-scale measurements and simulations of nuclear reactor fuel assemblies during earthquake events. Prof. Bardet is the PI on the grant, and Profs. Balaras and Manzari are co-PIs.

Conferences and Presentations:

Members of GW's Institute for Magnetics Research presented several papers at the 2012 International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), held May 7-11 in Vancouver, Canada:

• C. D. Burgy, E. Della Torre, M. Wun-Fogle, and J. B. Restorff, "Magnetostrictive Study of High Strength Steels with Respect to Angle from Rolling Direction"
• E. Cardelli, E. Della Torre, A Faba, and M. Ovichi, "Energy and Losses in Vector Thermal Aftereffect Model"
• H. ElBidweihy, E. Della Torre, and Y. Jin, "A Preisach-type Magnetostriction Model for Materials Exhibiting Villari Reversal"
• M. Ghahremani, Y. Jin, L. H. Bennett, E. Della Torre, H. ElBidweihy and S. Gu, "Design and Instrumentation of an Advanced Magnetocaloric Direct Temperature Measurement System"
• V. Provenzano, E. Della Torre, and L. H. Bennett, "Magnetizing Processes in Heusler Alloys," INTERMAG Conf., Vancouver, Canada, May 7-11, 2012.
• V. Provenzano, Y. Jin, L. H. Bennett, and E. Della Torre, "Evidence of First-Order Phase Transition Features near the Para-to Ferro-Magnetic Transition Region of Ni50Mn35In15."

"Design and Instrumentation of an Advanced Magnetocaloric Direct Temperature Measurement System" was selected as the best poster at the conference.

Prof. Can Korman (ECE) also presented a paper at the INTERMAG conference: "Circular MAGFET Design and SNR Optimization for Magnetic Bead Detection," Bowei Zhang, Can E. Korman, and Mona E. Zaghloul.

Prof. Zoe Szajnfarber (EMSE) and her co-advised MIT master's student, Erik Stockham, attended the Reinventing Space Conference in Los Angeles, CA, May 8-11. Prof. Szajnfarber presented a joint work with her research associate, Anthony Wicht: Wicht and Szajnfarber, "Balancing Near-Term Cost Constraints and Future Technical Capabilities: A Space-Centric Assessment of R and D Portfolio Strategies. Erik Stockham won the student paper award for his paper: Stockham (MIT), Schwartz (Draper), Szajnfarber (GW) and Weigel (MIT), "Innovation Pathways in National Security Space."

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