Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems

Name:	Marcos Lugo
Position:	Postdoctoral Associate
Email:	marcos@cavs.msstate.edu
Office:	Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems 2127
Office Phone:	(662) 325-5437

Biography:	Dr. Lugo received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, and B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Pachuca, Mexico. His academic background is in mechanical design, solid mechanics, and fatigue and fracture mechanics. He joined to the Engineering Mechanics and Materials Science Research Group at CAVS in 2010 where he is currently a Postdoctoral Associate. Prior to coming to MSU Dr. Lugo has held faculty positions as an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, from 1985-2005. In addition he has conducted several consulting projects with Mexican industries.
Research Interest:	Solid mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, damage evolution, mechanical behavior of materials, finite element analysis, stress analysis, numerical modeling of fatigue crack growth, and acoustic emission to predict damage in metal alloys. His primary research is to develop damage and multiscale fatigue material models based on mechanics-experiments and microstructure characterization to predict the mechanical behavior to optimize mechanical designs.
Publications:

Biography:

Dr. Lugo received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, and B.S. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Pachuca, Mexico. His academic background is in mechanical design, solid mechanics, and fatigue and fracture mechanics. He joined to the Engineering Mechanics and Materials Science Research Group at CAVS in 2010 where he is currently a Postdoctoral Associate. Prior to coming to MSU Dr. Lugo has held faculty positions as an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico, from 1985-2005. In addition he has conducted several consulting projects with Mexican industries.

Research Interest:

Solid mechanics, fatigue and fracture mechanics, damage evolution, mechanical behavior of materials, finite element analysis, stress analysis, numerical modeling of fatigue crack growth, and acoustic emission to predict damage in metal alloys. His primary research is to develop damage and multiscale fatigue material models based on mechanics-experiments and microstructure characterization to predict the mechanical behavior to optimize mechanical designs.

Publications:

Lugo, M., Jordon, J. B., Tschopp, M. A., Horstemeyer, M., & Gokhale, A. (May 2011). Quantification of Damage Evolution in a 7075 Aluminum Alloy Using an Acoustic Emission Technique. Materials Science and Engineering A, 528, 6708-6714. [Abstract]

Lugo, M., Jordon, J. B., Horstemeyer, M., & Tschopp, M. A. (Mar 2011). Microstructural Relationship in the Damage Evolution Process of an AZ61 Magnesium Alloy. , TMS 2011; San Diego, CA.

Lugo, M., Tschopp, M. A., Jordon, J. B., & Horstemeyer, M. (Mar 2011). Microstructure Relationship in the Damage Evolution Process of an AZ61 Magnesium Alloy. TMS 2011 Conference Proceedings, TMS 2011, San Diego, CA.

Lugo, M., Tschopp, M. A., Jordon, J. B., & Horstemeyer, M. (Mar 2011). Microstructure and Damage Evolution During Tensile Loading in a Wrought Magnesium Alloy. Scripta Materialia, 64, 912-915. [Document Site]

Lugo, M., & Daniewicz, S. (Feb 2011). The Influence of T-stress on Plasticity Induced Crack Closure under Plane Strain Conditions. International Journal of Fatigue, 33, 176-185.


	Total Publications by this Author: 7