Mechanical Engineering: Faculty: Olanrewaju Aluko

Olanrewaju Aluko

E-mail: oaluko@mtu.edu

Office: 828 MEEM
Phone: 487-3520

Senior Lecturer

Ph.D., Howard University at Washington DC, 2007

Stresses and failure analysis, composite materials and structures

Research and teaching Interest

Dr. Aluko conducts research in stress and failure analysis of composite joints and mechanical behavior of composite materials. He equally teaches static, integrated design and manufacturing and advises senior design projects.

Selected Publications

O. Aluko and M.B. Adeyemi, “Warm Compression Tests of Aluminum Alloy”, Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance (ASMI) vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 474-478, August 1998.

N. Tomlinson, H. A. Whitworth, O. Aluko and B. Moore, “Stresses Around Pin Loaded Holes in Mechanically fastened Joints”, Proceedings of the 23rd Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied mechanics (SECTAM XXIII), Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, May 2006.

H. A. Whitworth, O. Aluko and N. Tomlinson, “Strength Analysis of Composite Pinned Joints”, Proceedings of the 16th European Conference of Fracture, Alexandroupolis, Greece, July, 2006.

H. A. Whitworth, O. Aluko and N. Tomlinson, “Application of the Point Stress Criterion to the Failure of Composite Pinned Joints” Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, available online Jan, 2007,www.sciencedirect.com

O. Aluko, H. A. Whitworth “A Compact Analytic Method for Stress Distribution in Composite Pinned Joints” (in preparation).