| Meet the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Melih Eriten Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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Research area The Eriten research group explores multiscale testing, characterization and modeling of materials and interfaces, and nonlinear dynamics of materials and assembled structures. Most of our current systems–aircraft, bridges, buildings and infrastructure–are designed to operate in linear and equilibrium states. The Eriten lab examines nonlinear and nonequilibrium responses across broad ranges of temporal and spatial scales.
What excites you about your work?
“For the past decade or so, my group has been trying to understand the response of materials surfaces under extreme conditions and observing exciting new phenomena that lead us to inventions we can disclose to WARF. For instance, we’re currently producing a prototype of a sensor that can detect nonstationary and nonlinear responses of soft materials when you’re cutting or peeling them at high speeds, and we just submitted a portable device that replaces MRI biomedical sensing with a simpler, affordable, portable version for the Governor’s Business Plan Contest.”
What do you hope to achieve?
“I will continue to explore materials and interfaces under challenging operating conditions such as in living organisms, space, Arctic and Deep Earth missions, and come up with new methods of sensing and actuation, so those missions are reliable, and patents will follow.”
Professor Eriten is a dedicated researcher and inventor. We are excited to partner with industry to commercialize his material analytic technologies.
– Michael Carey, WARF, Licensing Manager
Want to learn more?
Michael Carey, [email protected], 608.960.9867