Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Joint Appointment in Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Dept. of Materials University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5070 Office: Room 2343 Engineering II Building Phone: (805) 893-3525 Fax: (805) 893-8651 E-mail: odette@engineering.ucsb.edu Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970 Solid Mechanics, Materials, and Structures: fundamental deformation and fractured mechanisms, mechanics in structural materials, microstructural evolution and property degradation in aggressive environments (aging), structural reliability, and the development of advanced high-performance composites

Professor Odette and his research team focus on the integration of various fracture theories, specifically for judging the reliability of steels used in nuclear reactors. The issues that they address include microstructural and micromechanical evolution and mechanical property changes in strcutural alloys serving in nuclear and other hostile environments, alloys with improved radiation damage resistance, macromechanics and micromechanics of fracture in structural alloys, and the mechanical properties of high performance brittle matrix composites. Professor Odette completed his undergraduate work at Rensselaer Polytechnic Intitute and his graduate work (in the field of Nuclear Engineering) at MIT before joining the College of Engineering at UCSB.

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