Benjamin J. Gould
Doctoral Student
Mechanical Engineering Dept.
University of Delaware
210 Spencer Laboratory
Email: bengould@udel.edu
Cirriculum Vitae
Executive summary
Benjamin Gould is a PhD Student in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. He is a Delaware native, and received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware in 2012 . His research interests are in the area of materials tribology and sustainable energy. Specifically his research targets the improvement of wind turbine performance through enhanced drivetrain reliability.
Awards and honors
Publications
- Wind Turbine Drivetrains: Assessing Contributors to Premature Failure B. Gould, D.L. Burris, in Tribology and Lubrication Technology, Aug 2013
Research areas
Clean Energy
Wind turbine design, tribology, and reliability; energy conservation via design and synthesis of novel low friction tribomaterials
Design Science
Precision instrument design
Materials Engineering
Bearing Material Engineering, Solid lubricant engineering; composites, and nanocomposites; metal matrix composites, nanocomposite tribological coatings
Solid Mechanics
Contact and interface mechanics, failure of materials
