Asaf Dana, Ph.D.

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Responsive Biomaterials Laboratory in The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Texas A&M University.

I work on mechanics of responsive materials (including liquid crystal elastomers and shape memory alloys). I am interested in the use of experimental techniques to study phase-transforming materials for the development of various applications including sensors, actuators and deployment devices. I believe that strong scientific arguments arise from the support of experimental results by physically based theoretical models.

I completed my Ph.D. in Prof. Doron Shilo’s Laboratory for Nano and Micro Mechanics of Materials at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. My M.Sc. (2015–2018) at the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), was supervised by Assoc. Prof. Guy Ramon, as a member of the Water & Energy Technologies (WET) Laboratory. Previously (2011–2015), I was an undergraduate student of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion. I’m originally from Tel Aviv, Israel.

Events

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Our Review paper on high-rate actuation of shape memory alloys on the cover of “Actuators” (Vol 10. 2021).

SPring-8 radiation facility, Japan

Current Research

Experiments we performed at a top synchrotron radiation facility in Japan uncover three stages of the transformation in polycrystalline NiTi wires. The dominant stage involves the propagation of a newly reported phase boundary that has high specific energy but provides an extremely fast transformation.

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Hydraulic fracturing and the production of hydrocarbons from fractured wells yield fluid wastewater that must be managed carefully. My M.Sc. research explored the behaviour of fluid-filled networks consisting of repeatedly bifurcating channels, with elastic boundaries as they relax from a pre-strained state, generating a back-flow of the fluid within each channel.

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