Education

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2008

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 2004 - 2008

 

Research Areas

Traditional, High Temperature and Meta-Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys

Powder Metallurgy

Porous Alloy Fabrication

 

Publications

1.  J.A. Monroe, J. Cruz-Perez, C. Yegin, I. Karaman, A.B.  Geltmacher, R. Kainuma, “Magnetic Response of Porous NiCoMnSn Meta-Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys Fabricated using Solid-State Replication,” Submitted to Scripta Materialia October 2011.

2.  J.A. Monroe, Ibrahim Karaman, Dimitris C. Lagoudas, Glen Bigelow, Ronald D. Noebe, Santo Padula II, 2010 “Recoverable and Irrecoverable Contributions to Accumulated Strain in a NiTiPd High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy During Thermo-Mechanical Cycling,” Scripta Materialia Vol. 65, pp. 123-126.

3.  J.A. Monroe, I. Karaman, H.E. Karaca, Y.I. Chumlyakov, H.J. Maier, 2010 “High-temperature superelasticity and competing microstructural mechanisms in Co49Ni21Ga30 shape memory alloy single crystals under tension,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 62, pp. 368-371.

 

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

1.    J.A. Monroe, R. Seiner, I. Karaman, K. Ito, R. Kainuma, “Thermo-Mechanical and Magneto-Thermal Response of NiCoMnSn Meta-Magnetic Shape Memory Alloy Foams,” ICOMAT 2011 Poster Presentation and Conference Proceedings

2.    J.A. Monroe, J.C. Perez, I. Karaman, R. Kainuma, “Fabrication and Characterization of Porous Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys,” TMS 2011 Presentation and Conference Proceedings

3.    P.K. Kumar, U. Desai, J.A. Monroe, D.C. Lagoudas, I. Karaman, G. Bigelow, R. Noebe, 2010 “Phase Transformations and Creep Behavior in Ti50Pd30Ni20 High Temperature Shape Memory Alloy in Compression,” Conference Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7644

4.    J.A. Monroe, P.K. Kumar, I. Karaman, D.C. Lagoudas, G. Bigelow, R. Noebe, S. Padula II, “Competing Mechanisms of Phase Transformation, Plasticity and Creep in High Temperature Shape Memory Alloys” SMST 2010 Presentation and Conference Proceedings