Faculty Profile

William S. Oates, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering in Fall of 2006. Dr. Oates received a dual B.S. degree (1995) in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and in Mathematics from Georgia Southwestern University. He obtained his M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2004) from the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology where he conducted research in the area of piezoelectric device design for morphing wing technologies and ferroelectric fracture mechanics. In the fall of 2004, he joined the Center for Research in Scientific Computation at North Carolina State University as a post doctoral research fellow where he conducted research on nonlinear control of smart material systems and structures. His research interests include experimental and theoretical solid mechanics, multiscale modeling of ferroic materials, and nonlinear control of smart systems and structures.

Published Articles

• Westram, I. Oates, W.S., Lupascu, D.C., Roedel, J., Lynch, C.S., "Mechanism of Electric Fatigue Crack Growth in Lead Zirconate
  Titanate," Acta. Mater., to appear.
• Oates, W.S. "Heterogeneity Influence on Electric Field Induced Piezoelectric Microfracture," J. Intell. Mater. Syst. Struct., v. 16(9), (2005), pp. 733-741.
• Oates, W.S., Lynch, C.S., Lupascu, D.C., Kounga, A. "Anisotropic Fracture Behavior in Ferroelectric Relaxor PZN-4.5%PT Single Crystals," J. Am. Cer. Soc., 88(7), (2005), pp. 1838-1844.
• Liu, T., Oates, W.S., Wan, S., Lynch, C.S. "Fracture at Partial Electrodes in PZN-0.045PT Single Crystals," J. Int. Mat. Sys. Struct.,
  v. 16 [4], (2005), pp. 373-379.
• Oates, W.S., Lynch, C.S. "New Approach to Solving Crack Tip Stress Fields in Piezoelectric Materials," J. Intell. Mater. Syst. Struct., v. 15 [7], (2004), pp. 557-563.
• Oates, W.S., Lynch, C.S., Lupascu, D.C., Kounga, A., Aulbach, E., Roedel, J. "Subcritical Crack Growth in Lead Zirconate Titanate," J. Am. Cer. Soc., v. 87 [7], (2004), pp. 1362-1364.
• Lynch, C.S., Oates, W.S. "Orthotropic Rescaling for Crack Tip Fields in Linear Piezoelectric Materials," Int. J. Solids Structures, v. 41 [11-12], (2004), pp. 2899-2917.
• Oates, W.S., Lynch, C.S. "Piezoelectric Hydraulic Pump System Dynamic Model," J. Intell. Mater. Syst. Struct., v. 12 [11], (2001),
  pp. 737-744.