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Ali Gordon

Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs

Department: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: Ali.Gordon@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4986
Office: Engineering I Room 281
Website: Mechanics of Materials Research Group
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Ali P. Gordon serves as an associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering at UCF. Just prior to joining UCF, he earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech. His principal research activities are focused on the development of continuum-level models to predict behavior of materials subjected to complex operating environments. This research has been funded by NSF, ONR and AFRL, among others, and various industrial partners. He has led or co-authored over 100 articles, and is a recipient of the Orr Award and the Widera Award for best papers in journals of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering.

In the classroom, he instructs curricula related to theoretical and experimental mechanics of materials and structures and was twice awarded UCF's highest honor for teaching. During the summer of 2012, he was selected as the first Visiting Scientist of Structural Integrity with Siemens Energy. He has been appointed an AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on multiple occasions. Gordon is an active member of ASME, and is the advisor of UCF’s NSBE chapter.

Research Interests: Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Structures, Fatigue, Creep, Fracture, Consitutive Modeling, Plasticity, Failure Analysis, Corrosion, Machine Design and Analysis

  • Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Mechanical Engineering
  • M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Mechanical Engineering
  • B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Mechanical Engineering
  • B.S. Morehouse College Mathematics
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  • Kraft, S. M., Moslehy, F., Bai, Y., and Gordon, A. P. (2013) “Characterization of the Orthotropic Elastic Constants of a Micronic Woven Wire Mesh via Digital Image Correlation” Experimental Mechanics (In Press).

  • Keller, S. G. and Gordon, A. P. (2013) “Coupled fatigue crack initiation and propagation model utilizing a single blunt notch compact tension specimen” Materials Performance and Characterization (Accepted). Bouchenot, T. and Gordon, A. P. (2013) “A Non-Interactive Approach for Hystersis Modeling of Non-Isothermal Creep-Fatigue of a DS Ni-Base Superalloy” Materials Performance and Characterization (Accepted).

  • Bouchenot, T. and Gordon, A. P. (2013) “A Non-Interactive Approach for Hystersis Modeling of Non-Isothermal Creep-Fatigue of a DS Ni-Base Superalloy” Materials Performance and Characterization (Accepted).

  • DeMarco, J. P., Karl, J., Sohn, Y., and Gordon, A. P., (2013) “High-temperature mechanical response of A359–SiCp–30%: tensile loading (I)” Materials at High Temperature, 30(3): 212-223.

  • DeMarco, J. P., Karl, J., Sohn, Y., and Gordon, A. P., (2013) “High-temperature mechanical response of A359–SiCp–30%: torsional loading (II)” Materials at High Temperature, 30(3): 212-223.

  • Kraft, S., and Gordon, A. P., (2013) “Yield Behavior of a Twill Dutch Woven Wire Mesh Via Experiments and Numerical Modeling” ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics

  • McWilliams, B., Sano, T., Yu, J., Gordon, A. P. , and Yen, C. (2013) Influence of hot rolling on the deformation behavior of particle reinforced aluminum metal matrix composite” Materials Science and Engineering A, 577(10): 54-63