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) 862-3989
E Mail: tcreasy@tamu.edu
Website
Department Website


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Nastic Materials for Active, Shape Changing Structures Machine Augmented Composites for Synthetic Multifunctional Materials

Biomedical applications of materials, biological composites Experimental methods in material characterization and processing

Solid and fluid mechanics aspects of processing methods

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)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
(In print, 14. In press, 2. In review, 1. In preparation, 2.)
2006 *Ju, J., R. J. Morgan, E. E. Shin, and T. S. Creasy, "Transverse Cracking of M40J/PMR-II-50 Composites under Thermal-Mechanical Loading; Part II - Experiment and Analytical Investigation," Journal of Composite Materials. In press. 2006 *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, In press. 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: 828-840. 2005 *S. Suryanarayan and T. S. Creasy, Analysis of interface granularity in discontinuous fiber composites. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology. 19: 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: 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: 314-324 2004 *Kim, J. and T. S. Creasy, Measurement of Sintering Characteristics of Clay-Reinforced Polyamide 6 Nanocomposite. Polymer Testing 23: 629-636 2004 Creasy, T. S. and *Y. S. Kang, Fiber Orientation during Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of Short Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastics. Journal of Thermoplastic Composites 17:205-227 2002 Creasy, T. S., Modeling Analysis of Tensile Tests of Bundled Filaments with a Bimodal Weibull Survival Function. Journal of Composite Materials 36:183-194. 2002 *Morrison, B. J., T. S. Creasy, A. A. Polliack, R. Fite, A New Fabrication Technique Utilizing a Composite Material Applied to Orthopedic Bracing. Polymer Composites 23:10-20. 2000 Creasy, T. S., Forming Discontinuous Fiber Arrays by Fracture of Lubricated Carbon-Filament Tows. Journal of Materials Science 35:4431-4438. 2000 *Dooley, T., T. S. Creasy and *A. Cuellar, Extraction of Weibull Parameters from Fiber Bundle Experiments Through Fourier Deconvolution. Composites Part A 31:1255-1261. 2000 Creasy, T. S., A Method of Extracting Weibull Survival Model Parameters from Filament Bundle Load/Strain Data. Composites Science and Technology 60:825-832. 1997 Creasy, T.S. and S.G. Advani, A Model Long-Discontinuous-Fiber Filled Thermoplastic Melt in Extensional Flow. Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 73:261-278. 1996 Creasy, T.S., S.G. Advani and R.K. Okine, Non-linear Response of a Long Discontinuous-Fiber/Melt System in Elongational Flows. Rheological Acta 35:347-355. 1996 Creasy, T.S., S.G. Advani and R.K. Okine, Transient Rheological Behavior of a Long Discontinuous Fiber-Melt System. Journal of Rheology 40:497-519. (“*” indicates student coauthors.)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS SUBMITTED
2006 *Kim, J., T. S. Creasy, G. F. Hawkins, and M. J. O'Brien Dynamic characteristics of a passive machine augmented composite. Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. Under revision to reviewer's comments. (“*” indicates student coauthors.)

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION
2006 Creasy, T.S., Numeric Study of Polymers Reinforced with a Tubular Elastic Element: Effects of a Granular Interface and Aspect Ratio Composites Science and Technology. Estimated submission date September 2006. 2006 *Kim, J., T. S. Creasy, G. F. Hawkins, and M. J. O'Brien, "The Characteristics of a Passive Machine Augmented Composite," Composite Structures. First draft under revision by Dr. Creasy. (“*” indicates student coauthors.)


BOOK CHAPTERS
1999 Advani, S.G., and T. S. Creasy, Rheology of Long Discontinuous Fiber Thermoplastic Composites. Invited chapter. Advances in the Flow and Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluids, D. A. Siginer, R. P. Chhabra and D. DeKee ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam. 1997 Advani, S.G., T. S. Creasy, and S. Shuler, Rheology of Long Fiber Reinforced Composites in Sheet Forming. Invited chapter. Composite Sheet Forming Composite Materials Series 11, D. Bhattacharyya ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam.