• Department Head, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
  • Regents Professor
  • Chevron Professor I
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Ibrahim Karaman

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois – 2000
  • M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey – 1996
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey – 1995

Research Interests

    • Deformation and annealing twinning induced grain boundary engineering in ultrafine grain and nanostructured materials including shape memory alloys and low stacking fault energy, high strength steels. 
    • Development and characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys with high actuation force. Bridging length scales in deforming single and textured polycrystals of structural magnetic shape memory alloys.
    • Novel processing and thermomechanical treatment of high-temperature shape memory alloys (HTSMAs) for obtaining nanostructured HTSMA actuators with excellent cyclic stability, fatigue and creep resistances.
    • Development of undergraduate curriculum for “Nanoscale Issues in Manufacturing”.
    • Fabrication of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and bulk metallic glass matrix composites via powder consolidation using equal channel angular extrusion for kinetic energy penetrators.
    • Fabrication and deformation studies of bulk nanocrystalline materials.
    • Development of a MagnetoThermoMechanical (MTM) testing system for characterization of magnetic shape memory alloys.

Awards & Honors

  • Robert Lansing Hardy Award, the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) – 2005
  • Texas Engineering Experiment Station Select Young Faculty Award, Texas A&M University – 2002
  • Texas Engineering Experiment Station Special Research Fellow, Texas A&M University – 2001
  • CAREER Award Recipient, National Science Foundation – 2001
  • Editorial Board Member, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A – 2002-2005

Selected Publications

  • M. Haouaoui*, I. Karaman, H. Maier and K.T. Hartwig, 2004, “Microstructure Evolution and Mechanical Behavior of Bulk Copper Obtained by Consolidation of Micro and Nano Powders,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, in press.
  • G.G. Yapici*, I. Karaman, Z.P. Luo, H.J. Maier, and Y.I. Chumlyakov, 2004, “Microstructural Refinement and Deformation Twinning During Severe Plastic Deformation of 316L Stainless Steel at High Temperatures,” Journal of Materials Research, in press.
  • H.E. Karaca*, I. Karaman , Y.I. Chumlyakov, D.C. Lagoudas, and X.Y. Zhang, 2004, “Compressive Response of A Single Crystalline CoNiAl Shape Memory Alloy,” Scripta Materialia,Vol. 51, pp. 261-266.
  • I. Karaman, J. Robertson*, J.-T. Im*, S. N. Mathaudhu*, Z.P. Luo and K. T. Hartwig, 2004, “The Effect of Temperature and Extrusion Speed on The Consolidation of Zirconium Based Metallic Glass Powder Using Equal Channel Angular Extrusion,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 35A, pp. 247-256.
  • H.E. Karaca*, I. Karaman , D.C. Lagoudas, H. J. Maier, and Y.I. Chumlyakov, 2003, “Recoverable Stress Induced Martensitic Transformation in A Ferromagnetic CoNiAl Alloy,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 49, pp. 831-838.
  • G.G. Yapici*, I. Karaman, Z.P. Luo, and H. Rack, 2003, “Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Severely Deformed Ti-6Al-4V,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 49, pp. 1021-1027.
  • I. Karaman, H.E. Karaca*, H.J. Maier, and Z.P. Luo, 2003, “The Effect of Severe Marforming on Shape Memory Characteristics of a Ti-Rich NiTi Alloy Processed Using Equal Channel Angular Extrusion,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 34A, pp. 2527-2539.
  • D. Canadinc, I. Karaman, H. Sehitoglu, Y.I. Chumlyakov, and H.J. Maier, 2003, “The Role of Nitrogen Alloying on Stress-Strain Response of Hadfield Steel Single Crystal Under Compressive Loading,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 34A, pp. 1821-1831.
  • J. Robertson*, J.-T. Im*, I. Karaman, K.T. Hartwig and I.E. Anderson, 2003, “Consolidation of Amorphous Copper Based Powder By Equal Channel Angular Extrusion,” J. of Non-Crystalline Solids, Vol. 317, pp. 144-151.
  • H. Sehitoglu, R. Hamilton, D. Canadinc, X.Y. Zhang, K. Gall, I. Karaman, Y. Chumlyakov, H. J. Maier, 2003, “Detwinning in NiTi Alloys,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 34A, pp. 5-13.
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