WPML’s Ph.D. student Elizabeth (Betsy) Smith passed her doctoral preliminary examination. Betsy’s Ph.D. research is focused on “Experimentally informed modeling of nonlinear wave propagation and phononic behavior in prescribed delaminations”. Congratulations to Betsy!…
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Josh’s successful Ph.D. defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Joshua R Tempelman for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, “Passive Energy Management in Acoustical and Dynamical Systems,” on March 25th! Joshua is the distinguished fifth Ph.D. graduate from the WPML, marking a significant milestone in his academic …
Nusrat received the Graduate College Conference Presentation Award!
Nusrat received the Graduate College Conference Presentation Award for her presentation on ‘Isotropy and Anisotropy: Toward Understanding the Fracture Behavior of Magnetoactive Elastomers’ at the SES Conference, 2023 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…
Connor’s successful Ph.D. defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Connor Pierce for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation, “Mechanics of Magneto-Active Elastomers and Application to Magnetically-Tunable Metamaterials,” on December 7th! Connor has become the fourth Ph.D. graduate from the WPML.…
Prof. Matlack receives 2023 C.D. Mote Jr., Early Career Award
Prof. Matlack has been honored with the 2023 C.D. Mote Jr., Early Career Award from ASME. This award recognizes her exceptional research contributions in the field of vibration and acoustics, and it is granted to individuals under 40 years old …
Paper published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
Congratulations to Dr. Ignacio Arretche! His paper, “Centrifugal forces enable band gaps that self-adapt to synchronous vibrations in rotating elastic metamaterial”, has been accepted for publication in the November 2023 issue of Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. His article …
Ganesh’s successful Ph.D. defense!
Congratulations to Dr. Ganesh Patil, who successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Nonlinear wave dynamics of continuum phononic materials with periodic rough contacts” on August 1! Ganesh is the third Ph.D. student to graduate from the WPML.
Paper accepted for publication in ASME’s Journal of Applied Mechanics
WPM Lab’s Ph.D. Candidate Ganesh Patil’s recent work on “Shear Wave-induced Friction at Periodic Interfaces for Programmable Mechanical Responses” has been accepted for publication in the ASME’s Journal of Applied Mechanics. This work introduces a platform of using …
Ignacio receives Best Paper Award!
Ignacio’s paper on locally resonant effective phononic crystals was selected for the 2022 ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics Best Paper Award https://www.asme.org/publications-submissions/journals/asme-journal-program-awards/journal-of-vibrations-and-acoustics-award. Congratulations Ignacio!…
Prof. Matlack honored for excellence in research
Prof. Matlack was recently honored as one of two UIUC MechSE assistant professors to receive the Grainger College of Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research! This recognition was recently featured in a story from the UIUC MechSE department.…