Brian L. Wardle
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research

Professsor Wardle's research interests are in the following areas:

Composite Systems:

• Hybrid Carbon Nanotube-Composite Architectures
• Failure envelopes for composite tubes under combined torsion/axial compression (oil drilling application)
• Damage resistance/tolerance of composite shells
• Asymmetric Meshing Technique in Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

• Durability and packaging of SHM systems
• Lamb-wave sensor/actuator design and modeling

Power MEMS:

• Fabrication and Structural Design of Ultra-thin MEMS Solid Oxide Fuel
• MEMS Vibration Harvesting for Wireless Sensors