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Ignacio passed his doctoral preliminary examination

October 31, 2021

WPML’s Ph.D. student Ignacio Arretche passed his doctoral preliminary examination. Ignacio’s Ph.D. research is on designing radial phononic materials in the near field sources. Congratulation to Ignacio!…

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Paper accepted for publication in JNDE

October 18, 2021January 4, 2022

Ph.D. Candidate Changgong Kim’s paper on “Evaluating rolling contact fatigue damage precursors with Rayleigh waves in 1060 steel” has been accepted for publication in the “Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation”. This paper is a collaborative effort of WPM Lab (PI: Prof. …

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Paper accepted for publication in JVA

September 29, 2021November 9, 2021

Graduate student Ignacio Arretche’s paper on the study of locally resonant effective phononic crystal has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. Congratulations Ignacio! The paper may be found here.…

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Review paper accepted in Acta Mechanica

September 21, 2021November 22, 2021

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.…

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WPML Lab now houses Metal 3D printer

September 21, 2021

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

August 31, 2021

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…

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WPM lab welcomes 3 new graduate students

August 22, 2021

Wave propagation and metamaterials lab is excited to welcome Sangwon Park, Hyelim Do, and Luis Baldelomar Pinto into our research team.…

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Betsy passed her Ph.D. qualification exam

August 20, 2021

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.…

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Prof Matlack wins NSF Career Award

August 20, 2021

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 …

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Paper accepted for publication in JASA

June 11, 2021

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.…

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WPM Lab Updates

  • Paper accepted for publication in Extreme Mechanics Letters June 11, 2022
  • Prof. Matlack, Ganesh and Betsy presented at ASA Conference May 27, 2022
  • Ganesh’s research featured in PRE Spotlight May 4, 2022
  • Changgong successfully defended his Ph.D. April 1, 2022
  • Josh passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam March 12, 2022
  • Betsy won “Best Student Paper Award” February 6, 2022
  • Paper accepted for publication in Physical Review E January 19, 2022
  • Ganesh passed his doctoral preliminary examination December 14, 2021
  • Ganesh and Betsy presented at Acoustical Society of America meeting December 4, 2021
  • Paper accepted for publication in Physical Review B November 27, 2021

PI – Kathryn Matlack

PI – Kathryn Matlack

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Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
Office: 255 CAB
Lab: 1213 MEL
1206 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801

WPM Lab Tweets

Congratulations to the first PhD graduate of the WPM lab Dr. Changgong Kim! He’s done some amazing work on ultrasonic NDE. @mechseILLINOIS #proudAdvisor pic.twitter.com/Kin0d0tBmZ

— Katie Matlack (@KathrynMatlack) May 14, 2022

 

Wrapping up 2019 with the Dunn, Hutchens, and Matlack labs holiday party! @ShelbyHutchens and @tribo_tweets. Thanks @tribo_tweets for hosting! pic.twitter.com/GqSQgRDtTe

— Katie Matlack (@KathrynMatlack) December 15, 2019

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