Dayakar Penumadu

Fred N. Peebles Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Penumadu is a professor and the IAMM Chair of Excellence at UT. He received his Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his research interests include carbon fiber reinforced polymeric composites and sandwich structures, environmental degradation, and multi-scale mechanics; multi-axial stress-strain-time behavior of multi-phase and granular materials; and non-invasive characterization and residual stress using neutron and x-ray tomography and diffraction. He is currently a Principal Investigator for a NSF IUCRC on Hybrid Composite Material Joining.