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AE's Naraghi Takes First for Second Year in Sandia Lab Contest

Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Naraghi, under the direction of Professor Ioannis Chasiotis, has taken a first place at Sandia National Laboratory's University Alliance competition for the second consecutive year!

Bragg is new AIAA vice president; Muellner assumes organization's presidency

Prof. Michael B. Bragg is the new Vice President-Elect, Publications, of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

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May 12
First Day of Instruction Summer

May 26
Memorial Day

 

Lawrence A. Bergman

Professor

lbergman@uiuc.edu
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
321E Talbot Lab
217-333-4970
306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations Lab
Research Areas
Computational stochastic mechanics; deterministic and stochastic structural dynamics; targeted energy transfer and energy harvesting in dynamical systems.

Education:

  • Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, 1980, Case Western Reserve University
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, 1978, Case Western Reserve University
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1966, Stevens Institute of Technology

Academic Positions:

  • Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Eng., UIUC, 1994-present
  • Dept. Affiliate, Civil and Environmental Eng., UIUC, 2000-present
  • Dept. Affiliate, Mechanical and Industrial Eng., UIUC, 1999-present
  • Assistant Dean of Engineering, UIUC, August 1996-May 1997
  • Associate Professor, UIUC, 1985-1994
  • Assistant Professor, UIUC, 1979-1985
  • Visiting Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Department of Mechanics, National Technical University of Athens, September, 2003-January, 2004
  • Visiting Professor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, August, 1995-May, 1996
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Rice University, Houston, Texas, January, 1987-May, 1987

Major Honors and Awards:

  • Editor, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 2000-2005
  • Editorial Board, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 2000-present
  • Associate Editor, Shock and Vibration Digest, 1998-present
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Vibration and Control, 1994-2006
  • Associate Editor, Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, 1989-1997
  • Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Center for Applied Stochastics Research, Florida Atlantic University, June, 2002
  • A. M. Freudenthal Guest Professorship, Universität Innsbruck, May, 2000
  • IASSAR Senior Award in Computational Stochastic Mechanics, 2001
  • ASCE Norman Medal (co-recipient), 1999
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 1998
  • ASCE State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering Award (co-recipient), 1983
  • Fellow, ASME
  • Associate Fellow, AIAA
  • Tau Beta Pi
  • Sigma Gamma Tau

Selected Publications:

  • A.F. Vakakis, L.I. Manevitch, A. Musienko, G. Kerschen and L.A. Bergman, “Transient Dynamics of a Dispersive Elastic Wave Guide Weakly Coupled to an Essentially Nonlinear End Attachment,” Wave Motion, Vol. 41-2, 109-132, 2005.
  • A.V. Pesterev, L.A. Bergman, C.A. Tan, and B. Yang, "Assessing Tire Forces Due to Roadway Unevenness by the Pothole Dynamic Amplification Factor Method," Journal of Sound and Vibration, 279 (3-5), pp. 817-841, 2005.
  • A.V. Pesterev, L.A. Bergman, C.A. Tan, and B. Yang, 2005, "Application of the Pothole DAF Method to Vehicles Traversing Periodic Roadway Irregularities," Journal of Sound and Vibration, 279 (3-5), pp. 843-855, 2005.
  • Y. Song, D.M. McFarland, L.A. Bergman and A.F. Vakakis, “Effect of Pressure Distribution on Energy Dissipation in a Mechanical Lap Joint,” AIAA Journal, 43(2),420-425, 2005.
  • A. Masud and L. A. Bergman, “Application of Multi-scale Finite Element Methods to the Solution of the Fokker-Planck Equation,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 194, 1513-1526, 2005.
  • D.M. McFarland, L.A. Bergman and A.F. Vakakis, “Experimental Study of Nonlinear Energy Pumping Occurring at a Single Fast Frequency,” International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, 40 (6), 891-899, 2005.
  • G. Kerschen, J.-C. Golinval, A. F. Vakakis and L. A. Bergman, “The Method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition forDynamical Characterization and Order Reduction of Mechanical Systems: An Overview,” Nonlinear Dynamics, 41 (1-3), 147-169, 2005.
  • F. Georgiadis, A. F. Vakakis, D. M. McFarland and L. A. Bergman, "Shock Isolation Through Passive Energy Pumping Caused by Non-Smooth Nonlinearities," International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (Special Issue on 'Non-smooth Dynamical Systems: Recent Trends and Perspectives'), 15 (6), 1989-2001, 2005.