The WPM was awarded 2 NSF grants: one from the Mechanics of Materials and Structures Program, on “Correlating Nonlinear Wave Response with Mesoscale Dislocation-Based Damage to Understand Fatigue Evolution“, and one co-sponsored by the Mechanics of Materials and …
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Katie awarded the Army Research Office Young Investigator Program award!
Katie was awarded the ARO YIP! See the news article on the MechSE website here.…
Connor receives NDSEG fellowship!
Congratulations to Connor Pierce who received the prestigious NDSEG fellowship! See the MechSE news article here.…
Prof. Matlack awarded ASME AMD’s Hathornthwaite Research Initiation Grant
Prof. Matlack was awarded the Haythornthwaite Foundation Research Initiation Grant from the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME for her project, “Phononic metastructures as ultrasonic filters for nondestructive evaluation measurements.” Many thanks to ASME AMD for this support!…
Paper published in Nature Materials!
Prof. Matlack’s paper from her postdoc work at ETH has been accepted for publication in Nature Materials, on “Designing Perturbative Metamaterials from Discrete Models“, by Matlack, Garcia, Palermo, Huber, and Daraio.
In the news: MechSE…
Visit to AFRL
Prof. Matlack visited AFRL and gave an invited research talk.…
IMECE 2017, Tampa, FL
Chaitanya presented his work on “Thermally activated band gaps in 3D printed metastructures”.…
Visit to Los Alamos National Lab
Prof. Matlack visited LANL and presented recent work on “Manipulating Wave Propagation in Mechanical Metamaterials”.…
Welcome new group members!
Welcome to Ignacio Arretche and Ganesh Patil, new graduate students in the Wave Propagation and Metamaterials lab.…