Bio
Dr. Mirshams received a Ph.D. in industrial metallurgy and metallurgical engineering in mechanical behavior and deformation processing of metals and alloys from the University of Birmingham, UK, and a M.S. in materials and metallurgical engineering from the University of Tehran. He was associate dean of academic affairs for the UNT College of Engineering in 2002-2008, and professor of mechanical engineering at Southern University and Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge before his transfer to UNT in August 2000. Dr. Mirshams' primary research interests include mechanical behavior of materials-microstructure-deformation processing relations, manufacturing processes, mechanical properties of materials in small scales, and the study of nanocrystalline and thin films for structural applications in mechanical systems. The Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, NASA, U.S. Army, Department of Education, Louisiana Board of Regents, Lockheed Martin and Howmet Corporation have sponsored his research.
Education
Ph. D., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK, 1980
M.S., Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Tehran, 1973
Courses
ENGR 2301: Statics
MEEN 3100: Manufacturing Process
ENGR 2302: Dynamics
MEEN 3100: Manufacturing Processes
MEEN 4800: Topics in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
MEEN 4810: Topics in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
MEEN 5800: Selected Topics of Contemporary Interest in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
MEEN 5810: Selected Topics of Contemporary Interest in Mechanical & Energy Engineering
MSES 5800: Studies in Energy Engineering Practice II
Articles
Brostow, W., Chonkaew, W., Mirshams R., Srivastava, A. (2008). Characterization of grooves in scratch resistance testing. Polymer Engineering and Science, 48(10), 2060-2065.
Puthucode, A., Banerjee, R., Vadlakonda, S., Mirshams, R., and Kaufman, M. J. (2008). Incipient plasticity and shear band formation in bulk metallic glass studied using indentation. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 39A, 1552-1559.
Mirshams, R.A. and Pothapragada, R. M. (2006). Correlation of nanoindentation measurements of nickel with geometrically different indenter tips. Acta Materialia, 54(4), 1123-1134.
More Articles
Vadlakonda, S., Banerjee, R., Puthucode, A., Mirshams, R., (2006). Comparison of incipient plasticity in BCC and FCC metals using nanoindentation. Materials Science and Engineering A, 208-213.
Yin, W.M., Whang, S.H., and Mirshams, R.A., (2005). Effect of interstitials on tensile strength and creep in nanostructured Ni. Acta Materialia, 383-392.
Pothapragada M., Mirshams R. A., Vadlakonda, S. (2005). Effect of pile-up in nanoindentation of micro and nano crystalline Ni using FEM. Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 880E, BB7.9.1.
Mirshams, R.A. and Parakala, P. (2004). Nanoindentation of nanocrystalline Ni with geometrically different indenters. Materials Science and Engineering A, 372(1–2), 252–260.
Parakala, P., Mirshams R. A., Nasrazadani, S., and Lian, K. (2003). Effects of thickness and indenter geometry in nanoindentation of nickel thin films. MRS Proceedings, 795, U11.19.1.
Mirshams, R.A. and Sabbaghian, M. (2003). Failure analysis of an elbow tube fitting. Engineering Failure Analysis, 10, 215-221.
Abernathy, M.C., Mirshams, R.A., Raman. A., and Wereszczak, A.A. (2001). Simulation of the flow strength and microstructure of titanium aluminide in hot forging. Journal of Materials Science, 36(23), 5697-5704.
Conference Papers/Proceedings
Nar, M. A., D'Souza, N., Mirshams, R. A., & Kosmopoulos, V. (2011, October). Intraspecimen nanomechanical properties across the femoral cortex parallel compositional measures. SAMPE Tech 2011 Proceedings, Fort Worth, Texas.
Wang, F., Fu, B., Mirshams, R. A., Cooper, W., Komanduri, R., & Lu, H. (2011). Time dependent constitutive behavior and fracture/failure processes. In 2010 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics (pp. 121-130). New York: Springer.
Wang, F., Fu, B., Mirshams, R. A., Cooper, W., Komanduri, R., & Lu, H. (2010, July). Mechanical properties measurement of sand grains by nanoindentation. Conference Proceeding, Society of Experimental Mechanics, Indianapolis, IN.
More Papers
Brostow, W., Chonkaew, W., Mirshams, R. A., & Srivastava, A. (2007). Proceedings, v 5. In Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference: Plastics Encounter at ANTEC 2007 (pp. 2755-2759).
Michaelides, E. and Mirshams, R. A. (2007). An innovative mechanical and energy engineering curriculum. ASEE Annual Meeting, Honolulu, June, AC 2007-1844.
Nasrazadani, S. and Mirshams, R. A. (2007). Teaching heat transfer through industrial partnership. ASEE Annual Meeting, Honolulu, June 2007, AC 2007-832
Quintanilla, J., D’Souza, N., Liu, J., Mirshams, R. A. (2007). Integration of engineering concepts in freshman calculus. ASEE Annual Meeting, Honolulu, AC 2007-1878.
Srivastava, A.K. and Mirshams, R.A. (2007). Microstructure and pile-up effect on nanoindentation measurements of FCC and BCC metals. NSTI-Nanotech 2007, www.nsti.org, ISBN 1420063766, 4(2007), 137.
Wang, F., Fu, B., Mirshams, R.A., Cooper, W., Komanduri, R., Lu, H. (2011). Mechanical properties measurement of sand grains by nanoindentation. Conference proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series, 15, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9794-4.
Presentations
Mirshams, R.A. (2010, June). Mechanical properties measurement of sand grains by nanoindentation. Annual Meeting Society For Experimental Mechanics (SEM), Indianapolis.
Mirshams, R.A. (2007, July). Pile-up effect in indentation of metallic materials. International Indentation Workshop 3, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, U.K.
Mirshams, R.A. (2005). Effect of strain rate on deformation mechanisms in nanoindentation of metals. Materials Research Society, Boston, MA.
More Presentations
Mirshams, R.A. (2004, September). Finite element analysis application in nanoindentation of Ni. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, New Orleans.
Mirshams, R.A., Vadllakonda, S., and Pothapragada, R.M. (2004, September). A Study of Deformation Mechanisms in Materilas using Nanoindnetation Techniques. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society, New Orleans.
Toepfer, T., Wei, F., Mirshams, R., and Golden, T (2001, October). Electrodeposition of nanocrystalline nickel American Chemical Society (ACS) Reginal Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Mirshams, R. (2001). R-Curve characterization of the fracture toughening of nanocrystalline nickel thin sheets. The Minerals, Metals & Materials, Society, Annual Conference, New Orleans.
Mirshams, R. (1999, October). Tensile strengthening in the nickel base superalloy IN738LC. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society-American Society for Microbiology Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Mirshams, R. (1999, October). Tensile behavior and fracture in nickel and nickel carbon doped nanocrystalline. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society-American Society for Microbiology Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Mirshams, R. (1999). Microstructure and texture consideration for finite element modeling of deformation of a precipitate-strengthened alloy. American Society of Mechanical Engineers – Energy Sources Technology Conference.
