Patrick Kwon

Material issues in design and manufacturing; manufacturing processes; mechanical behavior of materials; microstructured and graded materials.

Prof. Kwon focuses on machining, powder processing, and additive manufacturing. More specifically his effort addresses the fundamental tool wear mechanisms, which enables us to design optimal cutting tools for enhancing ocoling/lubrication techniques for many classes of work materials. With powder processing, various processing techniques to fabricate multifunctional materials with unique properties (e.g., functionally graded materials and negative coefficient of thermal expansion) are studied. In addition, new processing techniques of additive manufacturing (AM), more specifically related to powder bed systems such as binder jet printing and electron beam machine, are being developed to improve the physical properties and introduce multi-functionalities with AM processes.