Phone: (801) 581-4753
E-mail: ashley.spear@utah.edu
Office: 2151 MEK (1495 E. 100 S.)
Lab: 2121 MEK
Multiscale Mechanics & Materials Lab
Media: Raeymaekers & Spear Receive $3.0M Dept. of Defense Award for Metal Additive Manufacturing Project | Coats & Spear Receive $591K from U.S. Dept. of Justice for Infant Skull Fracture Research | Spear, Czabaj, & Fletcher Receive $952K Grant From the NSF to Study Open-Cell Metallic Foams | Spear Awarded Research Instrumentation Fund from U VPR | Profs. Czabaj & Spear Selected for 2016 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program | AFOSR Young Investigator Award | Meet Dr. Spear
Education
- Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Cornell University, 2014
- B.S., Architectural Engineering, University of Wyoming, 2007
Research Interests
- Characterizing and simulating three-dimensional cracking in metallic structures
- 3-D finite element analysis
- Concurrent multiscale modeling
- Microscale characterization of metallic materials
- High-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy (HEDM)