Expertise
Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Textiles, Multi-Scale Modeling, Finite Element Modeling, Adhesively Bonded Joints, Sandwich Structures, Tissue Engineering, Discrete Element Method
Research Interests
Solid Mechanics, Composite Materials, Textiles, Multi-Scale Modeling, Finite Element Modeling, Adhesively Bonded Joints
Education
- Ph D: Aerospace Engineering, (2012), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
Dissertation/Thesis Title:The Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Advanced Composite joints using Joint Finite Elements.(Advisor: Prof. Anthony M. Waas). - MS: Aerospace Engineering., (2011), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI
- MS: Mechanical Engineering, (2007), University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
Dissertation/Thesis Title:Energy Absorption of sandwich panels in Edgewise Compression (Advisor: Prof. Daniel O. Adams). - BS: Mechanical Engineering, (2007) University of Utah - Salt Lake City, UT
- BA: German, (2006), University of Utah - Salt lake City, UTAH
Biosketch
Scott Stapleton joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2015. Before joining the faculty at UMass Lowell, Stapleton was first exposed to composites research while he was earning his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah. He started out as a “lab lackey” manufacturing specimens and running tests, and eventually took over a project to investigate energy absorption of composite sandwich panels during car crash impacts. He earned a Masters and PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, funded by NASA Glenn Research Center to create a novel finite element tool to predict the behavior of adhesively bonded joints. After graduating, he worked for two years at the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University in Germany as the head of the Simulation of Composites research group. He then spent a year at the Institute of Applied Mechanics at RWTH Aachen University where his research focused on modeling textile-reinforced tissue-engineered heart valves.