Terry Steven Creasy

Associate Professor

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
100 Engineering/Physics Building
College Station, Texas 77843-3123

Tel: (979) 458-0118
Fax: (979) 845-3081
E-Mail: tcreasy@tamu.edu

Website
Department Website


PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

Nastic Materials for Active, Shape Changing Composites
Machine Augmented Composites for Synthetic Multifunctional
Materials
Experimental methods in material characterization and processing
Solid and fluid mechanics aspects of processing methods
Biomedical applications of materials, biological composites

EDUCATION
University of Delaware 1997 Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering
(S.G. Advani, R. B. Pipes advisors.)

Northwestern University 1987 M.S. Materials Science
(M.E. Fine and J.R.Weertman advisors.)

Washington University 1979 B.S. Mechanical Engineering
(W. B. Diboll, advisor)

WORK EXPERIENCE

2006 - present Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Manufacturing Division, Texas A&M University 2000 - 2006 Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University 1999 - 2000 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science, University of Southern California; Associate Director of Research, Center for Composite Materials 1997 - 1999 M. C. Gill Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Composite Materials, Department of Materials Science, University of Southern California. 1995 - 1997 Research Assistant, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware. 1990 - 1995 Dupont Fellowship, Army Research Office Fellowship, Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware. 1987 - 1990 Engineering Specialist Senior, Lockheed Martin Ft. Worth Company. Principal Investigator, National Aerospace Plane (NASP) Materials 1985 - 1987 Research Assistant, Department of Materials Science, Northwestern University. 1979 - 1985 Senior Engineer, Lockheed Martin Ft. Worth Company. 1978 - 1979 Department Tutor for Minority and Foreign Students, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis.

PUBLICATIONS

2007 *Ju, J., R. J. Morgan, E. E. Shin, and T. S. Creasy, “Transverse Cracking of M40J/PMRII- 50 Composites under Thermal-Mechanical Loading; Part II – Experiment and Analytical Investigation,” Journal of Composite Materials. 41(9): 1067 - 1086. 2007 *Ju, J., R. J. Morgan, E. E. Shin, and T. S. Creasy, “Damage Characterization in M40J/PMR-II-50 under Thermal Cycling Combined with Mechanical Loading; Part I - Investigation of Main and Interaction Effects Using Statistical Design of Experiments,” Journal of Composite Materials, 41 (8): 1009-1031. 2006 *McCutcheon, D. M., J. N. Reddy, M. J. O’Brien, T. S. Creasy, and G. F. Hawkins. Damping Composites Materials by Machine Augmentation. Journal of Sound and Vibration. 294 (4-5): 828-840. 2005 *S. Suryanarayan and T. S. Creasy, Analysis of interface granularity in discontinuous fiber composites. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology. 19 (13-14): 1175- 1188 2005 Creasy, T. S. and *Y. S. Kang, Fiber Fracture during Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of Short Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. 160 (1): 90-98 2005 *Weon, J. I., T. S. Creasy, H. J. Sue, and A. J. Hsieh, Mechanical Behavior of Polymethylmethacrylate with Molecules Oriented via Extreme Simple Shear. Polymer Engineering and Science. 45 (3): 314-324