Linear and Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations Lab

Voulgaris Awarded NCSA Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering Professor Petros Voulgaris has been awarded a National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellowship for his project, "Simulation-Based Performance and Robustness Analysis of Large Distributed Control Applications."

Chasiotis and Group Win Best Paper Award

Editors of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures have selected an article co-written by AE Assistant Prof. Ioannis Chasiotis for the journal's 2007 Best Paper Award.

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August 25
First Day of Instruction

August 25
AE 590 Seminar
Modeling and Validation of Yield Surface in Cellular Solids under Biaxial Loading

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Faculty Researchers:	Location:	Phone:	Website:
Professor L. A. Bergman	Room B420 Mechanical Engineering Laboratory	217-244-8819	www.ae.uiuc.edu/lndvl/

Description of Research:

Co-directed by Prof. L. A. Bergman (Aerospace Engineering) and Prof. A. F. Vakakis (Mechanical & Industrial Engineering and Aerospace Engineering). Recent experiments conducted in this laboratory have focused on the rapid targeted transfer of energy between potentially complex subsystems and nonlinear energy sinks ("energy pumping") under various kinds of excitations and on the effects of mechanical joints on the global dynamics of built-up structures. Both programs complement analytical and numerical investigations being carried out by the same research group and involve undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and international visitors. Support for student participation and/or equipment purchases has come from AFOSR, ONR, NSF, Sandia National Laboratories, and NASA.