- Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Gulf Oil/Thomas A. Diez Career Development Professor I
- Affiliated Faculty, Materials Science & Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-4461
- Email: macoope@tamu.edu
- Office: MEOB 222
- Website: Research website
- Linkedin: Profile
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology — 2004
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology — 2000
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University — 1999
Research Interests
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- Behaviors of heterogeneous materials formed from densely packed granular media
- Dynamic responses of materials in extreme environments
- Energetic materials: ignition, shock, detonation
- High velocity impact
- Laser velocimetry and high-speed optical imaging
Awards & Honors
- Sandia National Laboratories SPOT Award for Leadership - 2019
- Sandia National Laboratories Employee Recognition Award - 2011
- Outstanding Women at Sandia National Laboratories - 2009
Selected Publications
- Martin, S. and M. A. Cooper (2024). The Role of Randomly Packed Particles on Macroscopic Elastic Bonded Grain Properties. Computational Particle Mechanics
- Luke, M. and M. A. Cooper (2023). The Effect of Particle System on Quasistatic Compression Behavior and Damage Accumulation of High Solids Loading Polymer-Particle Composites. Advanced Composite Materials
- Cooper, M. A., W. W. Erikson, and M. S. Oliver (2021). Electrical Conductivity in Porous Binary Powder Mixtures. Mechanics of Materials 162, 104026.
- Cooper, M. A., M. S. Oliver, D. C. Bufford, et. al. (2020). Compression Behavior of Microcrystalline Cellulose Spheres: Single Particle Compression and Confined Bulk Compression Across Regimes. Powder Technology 374, 10–21.
- Cooper, M. A., A. W. Sapp, S. Guo, et. al. (2020). Imaging Perturbed Shock Propagation in Powders. Review of Scientific Instruments 91(2), 025109.