Mechanical Engineering Faculty

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Davood Askari

Associate Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount St
Wichita KS 67260-0133

Phone: (316) 978-6455
Fax: (316) 978-3236

Campus Address: EB 101B
Mailbox: 133
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Research groups : Materials Science and Engineering , Mechanical Systems and Robotics/Control

Education

  • PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2009
  • MSc, Mechanical Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, 2002
  • BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran 1997

Brief biography

Dr. Davood Askari joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Wichita State University as an assistant professor in Aug. 2013. He has been actively involved in teaching, research, professional and community services, and scholarship activities. His research interests include: design, modeling, analysis, fabrication, and testing/characterization of engineering materials, advanced composites and nanocomposites, thin films, hydrophobic/super-hydrophobic surfaces, carbon nanostructures, NanoNeedles, 3-D nano-structures, devices, and systems. He collaborates with other institutions of higher education and industry. His research efforts have resulted in 3 awarded/licensed patents and publication of 13 peer reviewed journal articles, 27 conference papers, and several posters, technical reports, and seminars. As a PI/Co-PI/Senior Personnel, he has been involved in the development of several grant applications for enhancement of undergraduate/graduate research and education, three of have been recently awarded. He has served as referee, session chair, organizer, and technical committee member for several technical conferences and academic journals. As an assistant professor, he has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in materials, design, composite, and nanotechnology areas, serving in different departmental, college, and university committees, advising undergraduate and graduate students, supervising MS Thesis and PhD Dissertations, and developing research and educational labs. He has participated in numerous professional workshops, technical short courses, international conferences, and symposiums, related to materials, design, composites, and nanotechnology.

Research interests

  • Synthesis, characterization, and applications of: carbon nanotubes with various geometrical configurations and architectures
  • Fabrication, characterization, and applications of individual and highly aligned arrays of metallic NanoNeedles
  • Synthesis, characterization, and applications of hydrophobic and superhydrophobic thin films in micro-fluidic and nano-fluidic devices
  • Design, manufacturing, and testing of composites and nanocomposites
  • Nanoindentation of nanocomposites, biological hard tissues, and hard shells
  • Numerical and analytical modeling of nanostructures, composites, and nanocomposites
  • Design and Analysis of Mechanical Subsystems

Courses taught at Wichita State University

  • ME 439 – Mechanical Engineering Design I
  • ME 541 – Mechanical Engineering Design II
  • ME 672 – Manufacturing of Composites
  • ME 672L – Manufacturing of Composites Lab
  • ME 762 – Polymeric Composite Materials
  • ME 762 – Synthesis and Applications of Nanomaterials
  • ME 876 – MS Thesis in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 890 – Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 890 – Advanced Independent Study in Mechanical Engineering
  • ME 976 – PhD Dissertation in Mechanical Engineering

Courses taught at Other Universities

  • Mechanical Subsystem Design (senior level)
  • Manufacturing Process Technologies (senior level)
  • Engineering Materials (junior level)
  • Engineering Materials Lab (junior level)
  • Engineering Graphics (Freshman level)
  • First Year University Seminar (Freshman level)
  • CAD/CAM Lab (senior level)
  • Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems Lab (senior level)

Journal publications

  1. Taklimi, S. R., Ghazinezami, A., and Askari, Davood, “Chemical Functionalization of Helical Carbon Nanotubes: Influence of Sonication Time and Concentrations of Sulfuric and Nitric Acids with 3:1 Mixing ratio,” Journal of Nanomaterials, Vol. 2019, Article ID 2836372, 10 pages, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2836372.  
  2. Vijayan, R., Ghazinezami, A., Taklimi, S. R., Khan M. Y., and Askari, Davood, “The Geometrical Advantages of Helical Carbon Nanotubes for High-Performance Multifunctional Polymeric Nanocomposites,” Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol. 156, pp. 28 – 42,  (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesb.2018.08.035.
  3. Gary S. Lemay G. S. and Askari D., “Advanced Algorithms for Ultrasonic Detection of Peel Ply at the Bondline of Out of-Autoclave Composite Assemblies,” Journal of Composite Materials, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 245–259, (2019). DOI: 10.1177/0021998318781887.
  4. Askari, Davood and Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Cylindrical Orthotropic Constitutive Modeling of Matrix-Filled Carbon Nanotubes: Transverse Mechanical Properties and Responses,” Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, (2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/1099636218795377. (First Published online on 09.05.2018). 
  5. Taklimi, S. R., Ghazinezami, A., Cluff, K., and Askari, Davood, "Effects of Reflux Temperature and Molarity of Acidic Solution on Chemical Functionalization of Helical Carbon Nanotubes," SAE International Journal of Materials and Manufacturing. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 29-36, (2018), https://doi.org/10.4271/05-11-01-0004 (First Published online on 09.19.2017).
  6. Askari, Davood, P. Veedu, V, and Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “A Theoretical Investigation on Chirality Dependence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Thermal Conductivity,” Nano Communications, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp 22-30, (2014).
  7. *Kalamkarov, A. L., *Askari, Davood, and Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Transversely Isotropic Constitutive Properties Modeling of Tubular Sandwich Composite Structures: Axial Mechanical Properties,” Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Vol. 27, No 10, pp. 1349–1369 (2014), doi: 10.1177/0892705712473621 (*equal contribution).
  8. Martirosyan, K. S., Bouniaev, M. M., Rakhmanov, M., Touhami, A., Islam, N., Askari, Davood, Trad, T., Litvinov, D., Lyshevski, S. E., “An Integrated Multidisciplinary Nanoscience Concentration Certificate Program for STEM Education,” Journal of Nano Education, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 154-163 (2013), doi.org/10.1166/jne.2013.1043.
  9. Kumar, S., Lopez, C., Probst, O., Francisco, G., Askari, Davood, and Yang, Y., “Flow Past a Rotationally Oscillating Cylinder,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 735, pp. 307-346 (2013), doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.469.
  10. Islam, N. and Askari, Davood, “Performance Improvement of an AC Electroosmotic Micropump by Hydrophobic Surface Modification,” Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, Vol. 14, Issue 3-4, pp 627-635 (2013), doi:10.1007/s10404-012-1081-9.
  11. Askari, Davood and Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Effects of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes on Shear Performance of Laminated Nanocomposites Bonded Joints,” Science and Technology of Advanced Materials, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 045002, (2012), doi:10.1088/1468-6996/13/4/045002.
  12. Askari, Davood and Feng, G. “Finite Element Analysis of Nanowire Indentation on a Flat Substrate,” Journal of Materials Research, Vol. 27, Issue 03, pp 586-591, (2012), doi:10.1557/jmr.2011.420.
  13. Jalilian, R., Rivera, J., Askari Davood, Arva, S., Rathfon, J. M., Cohn, R. W., and Yazdanpanah, Mehdi M. "Towards Wafer-Scale Patterning of Freestanding Intermetallic Nanowires," Nanotechnology, Vol. 22, No. 29, pp. 295601-295607, (2011), doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/22/29/295601.
  14. Askari, Davood and Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Effects of Vacancy Defects on Mechanical Properties of Graphene/Carbon Nanotubes: A Numerical Modeling,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 783-794, (2011).
  15. Kalamkarov, A. L., Askari, Davood, Veedu, P. V., Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Generally Cylindrical Orthotropic Constitutive Properties Modeling of Single-Walled Nanotubes Filled with Matrix,” Journal of Composite Materials,  Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 757-779, (2007).
  16. Veedu, V. P., Askari, Davood, Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Chirality Dependence of the Young’s Modulus of Single Walled Carbon Nanotube,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 2159-2166, (2006).
  17. Askari, Davood, Veedu, P. V., Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N., “Chirality Dependence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Material Properties: Axial Coefficient of Thermal Expansion,” Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 6, No. 7, pp. 2167-2174, (2006).
  18. Ghasemi Nejhad, M. N. and Askari, Davood, “Mechanical Properties Modeling of Carbon Single-Walled Nanotubes: A Finite Element Method,” Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 298-318, (2005).

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