Rassel Raihan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rassel Raihan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) Department. Prior to joining the MAE department, he was a Research Engineer III for the Institute of Predictive Performance Methodologies (IPPM) at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). His research focuses on the damage and life prediction of heterogeneous materials, Adhesively Bonded Joints, and Multifunctional Composites. Dr. Raihan was at the University of South Carolina as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in HeteroFoam Center. He obtained his Ph.D. in August 2014 and Master of Engineering in December 2012 from the University of South Carolina in Mechanical Engineering. He finished his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2007.
Contact: mdrassel.raihan@uta.edu
Vamsee Vadlamudi, Ph.D.
Research Scientist II
Vamsee Vadlamudi, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist II at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute. His work is focused on developing multiphysics models to understand and predict the interaction of different damage modes in composite materials.
He was awarded a Doctoral degree (2019) in Mechanical Engineering by University of Texas at Arlington for his work on assessment of material state in composites under the supervision of Prof. Kenneth Reifsnider. Prior to joining University of Texas at Arlington, he received a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of South Carolina in 2015 and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Osmania University in India in 2010.
Contact: vamsee.vadlamudi@uta.edu