March 2014
Xinran (Sharon) Xiao
Associate professor Xinran (Sharon) Xiao was elected a fellow of ASME in 2013–14.
The ASME Board of Governors confers the fellow grade on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements. Nominated by their peers, ASME fellows have had 10 or more years of active practice and at least 10 years of continuous active corporate membership in ASME.
Xiao’s research is on the mechanical behavior of composite materials, polymers, metals, fracture, fatigue, crash-worthiness, and multiphysics phenomena.
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