Prof. Matlack gave two invited talks at the 19th U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics held in Austin, Texas, USA. The two talks were “Nonlinear wave propagation from periodic arrangements of rough contact interfaces” and “Understanding the magneto-mechanical …
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Paper accepted for publication in Extreme Mechanics Letters
Ph.D. Student Ganesh Patil’s recent work on “Leveraging nonlinear wave mixing in rough contacts-based phononic diodes for tunable nonreciprocal waves” is accepted for publication in Extreme Mechanics Letters. This work demonstrates how nonlinear wave mixing in phononic materials with rough …
Prof. Matlack, Ganesh and Betsy presented at ASA Conference
Prof. Matlack gave an invited talk at the “Acoustical metamaterials” session at the 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) held in Denver, Colorado May 2022. Prof. Matlack presented our lab’s work on “Controlling cylindrical waves using …
Ganesh’s research featured in PRE Spotlight
Recent work from WPML Ph.D. student Ganesh Patil is currently featured as a “PRE Spotlight” on the homepage of Physical Review E.
The paper, “Strongly nonlinear wave dynamics of continuum phononic materials with periodic rough contacts,” was selected …
Changgong successfully defended his Ph.D.
Ph.D. candidate Changgong Kim has successfully defended his research on “Ultrasonic characterization of microstructures and defects in stainless steel 316L”. Congratulations to Changgong. Changgong joined WPM Lab in 2017 as the Lab’s first Ph.D. student. He has done extensive experimental …
Josh passed his Ph.D. qualifying exam
Congratulations to Josh Tempelman on passing his Ph.D. qualification exam. Josh is co-advised by Prof. Katie Matlack and Prof. Alex Vakakis. He works in both WMPL and LNDVL, and studies topological modes in nonlinear systems.…
Betsy won “Best Student Paper Award”
Ph.D. Student Betsy Smith won the Best Student Paper Award – second place at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America at Seattle, Washington. Betsy presented her work on “Wave propagation in a continuum nonlinear phononic material with …
Paper accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Ph.D. candidate Ganesh Patil’s recent work on strongly nonlinear wave dynamics of continuum phononic material with rough contacts has been accepted for publication in Physical Review E. This work presents new wave phenomena such as acoustic resonances and the formation …
Ganesh passed his doctoral preliminary examination
WPML’s Ph.D. student Ganesh Patil passed his doctoral preliminary examination. Ganesh’s Ph.D. research is focused on nonlinear wave dynamics in continuum phononic material with periodic rough contacts. Congratulation to Ganesh!…
Ganesh and Betsy presented at Acoustical Society of America meeting
Ph.D. students Ganesh Patil and Betsy Smith presented their latest research work at the 181st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, held in Seattle Washington. Ganesh’s presentation was on – “Emergence of stegotons in phononic materials with strongly …