Brad Kinsey

Prof. Kinsey joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department in the 2001-02 academic year. After working three years in the automotive industry, he began his work at Northwestern University where he received his Master's and Ph.D. degrees. His research focuses on the mechanics, materials, and manufacturing innovations related to materials deformation processes.
Courses Taught
- ME 441: Intro Eng Design & Solid Model
- ME 477: Introduction to Solid Modeling
- ME 696: Projects
- ME 755: Senior Design Project I
- ME 756: Senior Design Project II
- ME 777/877: Computer Aided Engineering
- ME 782/882: Industrial Skills and Eng
- ME 785/885: Solid Mechanics Manufacturing
- ME 797: Honors Seminar
- ME 992: Master's Project
- ME 999: Doctoral Research
- TECH 411: Innovation Scholars I
- TECH 412: Innovation Scholars II
- TECH 602: Machine Shop Training
Selected Publications
Mamros, E. M., Polec, L. A., Maaß, F., Clausmeyer, T., Tekkaya, A. E., Ha, J., & Kinsey, B. L. (2024). Examination of Bending Stress Superposition Effect on Martensite Transformation in Austenitic Stainless Steel 304. In Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering (pp. 475-485). Springer Nature Switzerland. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-40920-2_49
Darzi, S., Adams, M. D., Roth, J. T., Kinsey, B. L., & Ha, J. (2023). Manipulating martensite transformation of SS304L during double-sided incremental forming by varying temperature and deformation path. CIRP Annals, 72(1), 221-224. doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2023.04.015
Mitchell, B., Yokoyama, Y., Nassiri, A., Tagawa, Y., Korkolis, Y., & Kinsey, B. (2022). An investigation of Hertzian contact in soft materials using
photoelastic tomography. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.105164
Yokoyama, Y., Mitchell, B. R., Nassiri, A., Kinsey, B. L., Korkolis, Y. P., & Tagawa, Y. (2022). Integrated photoelasticity in a soft material: phase retardation,
azimuthal angle and stress-optic coefficient. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2022.107335
Chen, K., Breunig, A., Ha, J., Kinsey, B. L., Groche, P., & Korkolis, Y. P. (2022). Robustness of deep-drawing finite-element simulations to process variations. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MATERIAL FORMING, 15(3). doi:10.1007/s12289-022-01695-3
Allwood, J. M., Duncan, S. R., Cao, J., Groche, P., Hirt, G., Kinsey, B., . . . Tekkaya, A. E. (2016). Closed-loop control of product properties in metal forming. In CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY Vol. 65 (pp. 573-596). doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2016.06.002
Nassiri, A., Chini, G., Vivek, A., Daehn, G., & Kinsey, B. (2015). Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian finite element simulation and experimental investigation of wavy interfacial morphology during high velocity impact welding. MATERIALS & DESIGN, 88, 345-358. doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2015.09.005
Kinsey, B., Cullen, G., Jordan, A., & Mates, S. (2013). Investigation of electroplastic effect at high deformation rates for 304SS and Ti-6Al-4V. CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY, 62(1), 279-282. doi:10.1016/j.cirp.2013.03.058
Psyk, V., Risch, D., Kinsey, B. L., Tekkaya, A. E., & Kleiner, M. (2011). Electromagnetic forming-A review. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, 211(5), 787-829. doi:10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2010.12.012
Kinsey, B., Liu, Z. H., & Cao, J. (2000). A novel forming technology for tailor-welded blacks. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, 99(1-3), 145-153. doi:10.1016/S0924-0136(99)00412-4
Most Cited Publications