- Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-3256
- Email: talreja@tamu.edu
- Office: HRBB 527B
Research Interests
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- Damage
- Fatigue and failure of composites
- Effects of manufacturing defects
- Aging aircraft
- Sustainability of aerospace vehicles
Certifications & Memberships
- Fellow, AAAS Science and Technology Policy
Selected Publications
- Talreja, R. "Failure of Unidirectional Fiber Reinforced Composites: A Case Study in Strength of Materials," Mechanics of Composite Materials 59 (2), 173-192
- R Talreja, R. and Elnekhaily, S.A. "Effects of micro voids on the early stage of transverse crack formation in unidirectional composites," Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing 167, 107457
- Talreja, R., et al. "Multiscale embedded models to determine effective mechanical properties of composite materials: Asymptotic Homogenization Method combined to Finite Element Method." Composites Part C: Open Access 9, 100303
- Talreja, R. "Damage and failure of composite materials," Advanced Theories for Deformation, Damage and Failure in Materials, 235-280
- Talreja, R., et al. "Damage classification based on stiffness reduction in cross-ply laminates with convolution neural networks" Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and …
- Talreja, R., et al. "Analysis of Lamb wave propagation in cross-ply laminates modeled with homogenized properties of transverse cracked plies," Nondestructive Characterization and Monitoring of Advanced Materials …
- Talreja, R., et al. "Micromechanical assessment of local failure mechanisms and early-stage ply crack formation in cross-ply laminates," Composites Science and Technology 220, 109286
- Talreja, R., et al. "Concepts and definitions related to mechanical behavior of fiber reinforced composite materials," Composites Science and Technology 217, 109081
- Talreja, R., et al. "On the use of asymptotic homogenization to predict the coupled components of the effective constitutive matrix of laminated composites," Proceedings of BCCM 5
- Talreja, R., et al. "Effect of Microstructure on Initiation of Delamination in Cross Ply Laminates from a Transverse Crack," Proceedings of the American Society for Composites— Thirty-Sixth Technical …