Review paper on nonlinear phononic and metamaterials authored by Ph.D. student Ganesh Patil and Prof. Katie Matlack has been accepted for publication in Acta Mechanica. The paper may be found here.…
Author: gupatil2@illinois.edu
WPML Lab now houses Metal 3D printer
Wave Propagation and Metamaterials (WPM) Laboratory now owns and operates 3D metal binder jet printing. More information about the facility may be found here.
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WPML research highlighted in iMechanica journal club
Recent research work on phononic materials conducted at the WPM lab has been highlighted in the iMechanica Journal club for September 2021. The blog titled “Phononic materials: controlling elastic waves in solids” can be found here: https://imechanica.org/node/25398…
WPM lab welcomes 3 new graduate students
Wave propagation and metamaterials lab is excited to welcome Sangwon Park, Hyelim Do, and Luis Baldelomar Pinto into our research team.…
Betsy passed her Ph.D. qualification exam
Congratulations to WPML Ph.D. Student, Betsy Smith. She passed her Ph.D. qualification exam and moved to the next stage of her doctoral studies. Betsy’s doctoral study is focused on nonlinear and soft phononic materials.…
Prof Matlack wins NSF Career Award
Professor Kathryn Matlack received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The awarded proposal is titled “Controlling Nonlinear Wave Propagation in Metastructures with Contact Interfaces.” Under this award, WPML will conduct fundamental research to uncover the relationship between the …
Paper accepted for publication in JASA
Betsy Smith’s paper on “Metal additively manufactured phononic materials as ultrasonic filters in nonlinear ultrasound measurements” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Acoustical Society of America. The paper can be accessed here.…
Paper accepted for publication in Wave Motion
Ph.D. candidate Ganesh Patil’s paper on “Wave self-interactions in continuum phononic material with periodic contact nonlinearity” has been accepted for publication in Wave Motion.
The paper studies how a periodic arrangement of rough contacts can be exploited to control nonlinear …
Songyuan won oustanding presentation award at URS 2021
MechSE undergraduate Songyuan Cui working with our lab got an “Outstanding Presentation” award in the “Science and Technology” section of the Undergraduate Symposium for his presentation “Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Phononic Materials with Periodic Rough Contacts“. Well done …
Ganesh won best student paper award
Ph.D. student Ganesh Patil won the Best Student Paper Award – First Place in Structural Acoustics and Vibration for his presentation titled “Three-dimensional periodic multifunctional lattice materials for simultaneous vibration isolation and heat conduction” at the 179th meeting of the …