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.
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’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 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.…
Congratulations to Changgong Kim! His paper, “In situ nonlinear Rayleigh wave technique to characterize the tensile plastic deformation of stainless steel 316L”, has been accepted for publication in the May 2023 issue of Ultrasonics. His article is available online …
Ph.D. Students Ganesh Patil and Betsy Smith from the WPM Lab along with Dr. Benjamin Goldsberry from the Applied Research Lab at UT Austin organized a special session on “Tunable Metamaterials” at the 183rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of …
Ph.D. Candidate Ganesh Patil presented his recent research work on “Frictional instability: a nonlinear mechanism to control shear wave responses in rough contact-based metamaterials” at the 183rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in Nashville, Tennessee. His presentation …
Congratulations to Nusrat! Her paper, “A process to spatially control the fraction of SS420 and bronze phases in binder jet infiltrated parts” was recently accepted for publication in the Journal of Manufacturing Processes.…
Congratulations to Dr. Ignacio Arretche on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation! Dr. Arretche became the second member of the WPML to obtain his Ph.D. degree for his work “Controlling radial waves through effective periodicity”, on November 7, 2022.…
The Wave Propagation and Metamaterials Lab was strongly represented at the Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science:
