Mechanical and Physical Metallurgy and Thermal Properties of materials including metals, ceramics, nanostructured materials, laminates, composites, cermets and coatings; Materials and Modeling of Li-ion batteries; High Cycle Fatigue of titanium and nickel-base superalloys; Fracture & Failure Analysis of Engineering Structures; Computational Mechanical Behavior; Development of orthopedic implant devices and armor materials; Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Functionally Graded Materials.