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Current Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nPost FSW Nitinol Heat Treatment
\n(Terry)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nMicro-Friction Stir Welding of Nitinol
\n(Shelton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDevelopment Of Shelf-Stable Thermite Impregnated Thermoplastics
\n(Firestone)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFSW Techniques Joining Al Alloys and Wood
\n(Jenkins)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Past Projects<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nDissimilar Material Joining with Nitinol
\n(Terry)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nJoining Techniques For Nitinol
\n(Terry)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFriction Stir Welded Small Diameter Stainless Steel Hemispheres
\n(Shelton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"FrictionStirExtrusion7075\"<\/td>\nFriction Stir Extrusion of AA 7075
\n(Shelton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"FSW<\/td>\nFriction Stir Welding of Polymers & Polymer Composites
\n(Wilkins)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nFriction Stir Extrusion on Butted Curved Surfaces
\n(Strawn)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nSimulating FSW in a Lunar Environment
\n(Strawn)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nAdditive Manufacturing of Thermite Heat Source
\n(Neely)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"DissimilarThumbNail\"<\/td>\n Joining of Dissimilar Materials <\/a>
\n(Evans, Jarrell)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"MeteoriteThumbNail\"<\/td>\n Friction Stir Welding of Meteorite <\/a>
\n(Evans)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"SelectiveLaserSintering\"<\/td>\n Friction Stir Welding of Additively Manufactured Materials <\/a>
\n(Evans)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"CFDMsm\"<\/td>\nComputational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Friction Stir Welding <\/a>
\n(Lammlein, Cox)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"uwsm\"<\/td>\nImmersed friction stir welding<\/a>
\nEffects of water submersion on process forces and weld strength
\n(Bloodworth)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"TTTsm\"<\/td>\nThrough-the-tool tracking for friction stir welding<\/a>
\nLateral misalignment detection in FSW
\n(Flemming, Lammlein)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"mmcsm\"<\/td>\nParameretizing the friction stir welding of aluminum metal matrix composites<\/a>
\nA study of tool wear
\n(Prater)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\"heatsm\"<\/td>\nFriction stir welding with heating<\/a>
\nEffects on process forces and weld strength
\n(Sinclair)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0\"MSGpic\"<\/td>\nFriction Stir Welding Applications for Military Vehicles<\/a>
\nAn undergraduate senior design project
\n(Lukenheimer, Teruya, Pearson, Segale, Vollmer, Cox)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current Projects Post FSW Nitinol Heat Treatment (Terry) Micro-Friction Stir Welding of Nitinol (Shelton) Development Of Shelf-Stable Thermite Impregnated Thermoplastics (Firestone) FSW Techniques Joining Al Alloys and Wood (Jenkins) Past Projects Dissimilar Material Joining with Nitinol (Terry) Joining Techniques For Nitinol (Terry) Friction Stir Welded Small Diameter Stainless Steel Hemispheres (Shelton) Friction Stir Extrusion of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7503,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7503"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vuwal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}