Jason Patrick
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 919-515-8748
- Email: jfpatric@ncsu.edu
- Office: Fitts-Woolard Hall 3349
Dr. Patrick is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University. He is interested in the development of multifunctional, structural composites to address interdisciplinary challenges in modern aerospace, automotive, civil, and naval applications.
Dr. Patrick received both his B.S. and M.S. in Civil Engineering at North Carolina State University and a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology on the Illinois campus before returning to NC State as a faculty member in 2017.
Dr. Patrick currently teaches CE 325/525– (Matrix) Structural Analysis I/II.
Research Interests
Dr. Patrick develops next-generation, structural composites that can sense, respond and adapt to their environment. Motivated by natural phenomenon, his research is focused on creating “active” materials that achieve biomimetic, regulating functions such as self-healing. These multidisciplinary investigations span the fields of solid/fluid mechanics, chemistry, materials science, and even electrical engineering. Dr. Patrick has created novel fiber-composites containing 3D microvasculature that can achieve multifunctional performance (e.g. thermal regulation, electromagnetic modulation) via fluid circulation/substitution within the vascular networks. He employs the latest in materials fabrication techniques, e.g. 3D printing, to produce increasingly complex fiber-composite architectures. Dr. Patrick’s latest research involves the integration of microelectronic sensors into advanced composite systems for coupling structural health monitoring (i.e. self-sensing) with self-regulating functions. His vision for the future of fiber-composites remains focused on bioinspired enhancements to imbue these synthetic materials with evolutionary advantages in an engineered platform.
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Structural Engineering | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2014 |
| MS | Civil Engineering | NC State University | 2007 |
| BS | Civil Engineering | NC State University | 2004 |
Publications
- Self-healing for the long haul: In situ automation delivers century-scale fracture recovery in structural composites
- Turicek, J. S., Phillips, Z. J., Nakshatrala, K. B., & Patrick, J. F. (2026, January 9), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2523447123
- Effect of Temperature-Dependent Material Properties on Thermal Regulation in Thin Microvascular Composites
- Adhikari, K., Patrick, J. F., & Nakshatrala, K. B. (2025, February 23), International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40819-025-01852-7
- Integrated damage sensing and self-healing in polymers and composites: Progress and opportunities
- Martin, W. H., Turicek, J. S., & Patrick, J. F. (2025, August 8), Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/1045389X251346315
- Self-healing for the Long Haul: In situ Automation Delivers Century-scale Fracture Recovery in Structural Composites
- Turicek, J., Phillips, Z., Nakshatrala, K., & Patrick, J. (2025, January 1), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17845141
- Self-healing for the Long Haul: In situ Automation Delivers Century-scale Fracture Recovery in Structural Composites
- Turicek, J., Phillips, Z., Nakshatrala, K., & Patrick, J. (2025, January 1), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17845142
- An integrated microstructure reconstruction and meshing framework for finite element modeling of woven fiber-composites
- Zhang, P., Pai, S., Turicek, J. S., Snyder, A. D., Patrick, J. F., & Soghrati, S. (2024, February 8), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2024.116797
- Transient topology optimization for efficient design of actively cooled microvascular materials
- Gorman, J., Pejman, R., Kumar, S. R., Patrick, J. F., & Najafi, A. R. (2024, March 25), Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-024-03774-2
- Unraveling chemical and rheological mechanisms of self-healing with EMAA thermoplastics in fiber-reinforced epoxy composites
- Snyder, A. D., Turicek, J. S., Diesendruck, C. E., Varley, R. J., & Patrick, J. F. (2024, May 22), Composites Part A Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol. 185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2024.108271
- A methodology for measuring heat transfer coefficient and self-similarity of thermal regulation in microvascular material systems
- Devi, U., Kumar, S. R., Nakshatrala, K. B., & Patrick, J. F. (2023, September 13), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.124614
- Configuration-independent thermal invariants under flow reversal in thin vascular systems
- Nakshatrala, K. B., Adhikari, K., Kumar, S. R., & Patrick, J. F. (2023, August 1), PNAS Nexus, Vol. 2. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad266
