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Richard W. Neu is a Professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he has been since 1995. He earned his Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991, 1988, and 1986, respectively. Dr. Neu has a rich background in mechanics, materials, and manufacturing, with significant contributions to the understanding of fatigue behavior in various materials, including thermomechanical fatigue, fretting fatigue, and creep. His research focuses on process-structure-property relationships in additively manufactured structural metals, utilizing a combination of physics-based models and machine learning techniques. Additionally, he is involved in high-throughput materials development, thermomechanical fatigue crack growth, creep-fatigue crack growth in nickel-base superalloys, and microstructure-sensitive modeling of rolling contact fatigue in bearings. His work has implications across numerous applications, including aerospace, power generation, and medical devices. Richard Neu's research is supported by both industry and government funding agencies, reflecting the wide applicability and importance of his work in the field.
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