Hugh A Bruck

Phone : 301.405.8711
Fax : 301.314.9477
Email : bruck@eng.umd.edu
Office : Room 2153, Building 088,
Glenn L. Martin Hall

Land Mail :
Hugh A Bruck
Room 2153, Building 088,
  (Glenn L. Martin Hall)
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

• Education :

B. S. Mechanical Engineering
(Magna Cum laude w/ Honors from the Honors College)
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1988.

M. S. Mechanical Engineering
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, 1989

Ph.D. Materials Science
(Minor in Applied Mechanics)
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 1994

• Teaching :

Undergraduate
ENES 102	Statics
ENES 382	Engineering Materials and Manufacturing Processes
Graduate
ENME 670	Continuum Mechanics
ENME 672	Composite Materials
ENME 677	Applied Elasticity
ENME 661	Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Structures

• Fellowship :

• Co-organizer, "Special Session on Biologically Inspired Materials", SEM IX International Congress, Orlando, FL, 2000
• Co-chair, "Novel Experimental Techniques III", VII International Congress on Experimental Mechanics, Nashville, TN, 1996
• Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation, Civil & Mechanical Systems
• Panelist on National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship review committee
• Technical Reviewer for journals: AIAA Journal, Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design,
  • Journal of Applied Mechanics, Journal of Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science, Optical Engineering, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Experimental Mechanics

• Honors & Awards :

• Fulbright Scholar
• Office of Naval Research Young Investigator
• Army Summer Faculty Research and Engineering Program
• Clark fellowship in Materials Science
• Du Pont graduate fellowship in Mechanical Engineering
• Outstanding senior in Mechanical Engineering, 1988
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Carolina Scholar

• Research Interests :

Materials

• Functionally Graded Materials for Smart Structures, Energetic Materials, Porous Materials, and MEMS
• Bulk Metallic Glasses
• Interpenetrating Phase Composites
• Nanocrystalline Ceramics
• Shape Memory Alloys
• Reflexive Materials Technology

Mechanics

• Dynamic Mechanical Behavior of Materials
• Failure of Materials
• Full-field Deformation Measurement Techniques
• Microscale Mechanical Characterization and Nanoindentation Techniques

Manufacturing

• Structural Joining Techniques
• Casting of Alloys and Composites
• Powder Metallurgical Processing of Composites and Ceramics
• Rapid Prototyping Techniques

• 10 Most Recent Journal Publications :

1.  Y.M. Shabana, M.L. Pines, and H.A. Bruck, “Modeling the Evolution of Stress Due to Differential Shrinkage in Powder-Processed Functionally Graded Metal-Ceramic Composites During Pressureless Sintering”, International Journal of Solids and Structures (IF=1.529), 43, 7852-7868 (2006).

2.  F.M. Gallant, S.E. Prickett, and H.A. Bruck, "Effects of Twin Screw Extrusion Processing on the Burning Rate of Composite Propellants”, Propellants, Explosives, and Pyrotechnics (IF=1.255), 31, 456-465 (2006).

3.  J.P. Luman, B. Wehrman, K.K. Kuo, R.A. Yetter, N.M. Masoud, T. G. Manning, L.E. Harris, and H.A. Bruck, “Development and Characterization of High Performance Solid Propellants Containing Nano-sized Energetic Ingredients”, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute (IF=0.683), 31, 2089-2096 (2007).

4.  L.S. Gyger, Jr., P. Kulkarni, H.A. Bruck, S.K. Gupta , and O. C. Wilson, Jr., “Replamineform Inspired Bone Structures (RIBS)  Using Multi-piece Molds and Advanced Ceramic Gelcasting Technology”, Materials Science and Engineering C: Biomimetic and Supremolecular Systems (IF=1.325, ISI=1, Self=1), 27, 646-653 (2007).

5.   Y.M.Shabana, M.L. Pines, H.A. Bruck, B. Xu, and J.P. Laskis, "Evolution of Elastic Mechanical Properties During Pressureless Sintering of Powder-Processed Metals and Ceramics", Journal of Materials Science (IF=0.999), 42, 7708-7715 (2007).

6.   H. A. Bruck, A. L. Gershon, I. Golden, S. K. Gupta, L. S. Gyger, Jr., E. B. Magrab, and B. W. Spranklin, “Training Mechanical Engineering Students to Utilize Biological Inspiration during Product Development”, accepted for publication in Bioinspiration and Biomimetics (IF=new), 2, S198-S209 (2007).

7.  A, Kota, B, H. Cipriano, M. Duesterberg, D, Powell, D. I. Bigio, S, R. Raghavan, and H. A. Bruck, “Electrical and Rheological Percolation in Polystyrene/MWCNT composites”, Macromolecules (IF= 4.277), 40, 7400-7406 (2007).

8.    H. A. Bruck, R. Gilat, J. Aboudi, and A, L. Gershon, “A New Approach for Optimizing the Mechanical Behavior of Porous Microstructures for Porous Materials by Design”, Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science & Engineering (IF=1.457), 15, 653-674 (2007).

9.    F. M. Gallant, S. E. Prickett, M. Cesarec, and H.A. Bruck, “Ingredient and Processing Effects on the Burning Rates of Composite
Rocket Propellants Utilizing a Reduced-Run Mixture-Process Experiment Design”, accepted for publication in Chemometric and Intelligent Laboratory Systems (IF=2.450) (2007).

10.  A, Kota, B, H. Cipriano, M. Duesterberg, D, Powell, S, R. Raghavan, and Hugh A. Bruck, “Quantitative Characterization of the Formation of an Interpenetrating Phase Composite in Polystyrene from the Percolation of Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes”, accepted for publication in Nanotechnology (IF= 3.037) (2007).