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
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 …
WPML UGRAs presented their research in EOH, ISUR and IURS
Undergraduate students of the WPM lab presented their research across various university-wide platforms this Spring.
Madison Yang working with Changgong Kim performed a demonstration of how ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation technique is used in industry to detects cracks. This outreach was …
Prof. Matlack wins Journal of Applied Mechanics award
Assistant Professor Katie Matlack has received the 2021 Journal of Applied Mechanics Award for her paper, “Experimental Testing of Vibration Mitigation in 3D-Printed Architected Metastructures,” Journal of Applied Mechanics 86, 111008 (2019). The paper is available here. Read the …
Paper accepted for publication in Crystals
Congratulations to Connor Pierce! His paper “Fuzzy Band Gaps”: A Physically Motivated Indicator of Bloch Wave Evanescence in Phononic Systems was recently accepted for publication in the journal Crystals. The article can be found at https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11010066.…
Paper accepted for publication in Additive Manufacturing
Congratulations to Changgong Kim on the acceptance of his paper “Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation of Laser powder bed fusion 316 L Stainless Steel” for publication in Additive Manufacturing! The article can be found at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addma.2020.101800.…