Acoustics and Dynamics

Graduate Study and Research Branch of the

George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

at the

Georgia Institute of Technology

 

Faculty

 

Facilities

 

Research

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Introduction

The School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech offers graduate programs in Acoustics and Dynamics at the master's and Ph.D. levels. Research in Vibration falls within these categories, as well. The Acoustics and Dynamics research group within the Mechanical Engineering Program includes faculty members who have a primary interest in Acoustics and Dynamics. Interaction among the various members of the group has resulted in an interleaving of collaborative research efforts. An attractive feature of the Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering is that students may, if they desire, directly enroll in the Ph.D. program without first obtaining a master's degree. The Acoustics and Dynamics research group also maintains ties with several faculty members that are involved in this research area in other schools within the Institute. These other units are Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, and Architecture, as well as the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

Associated Faculty and Their Research Interests

Academic Faculty

Y. H. Berthelot* Professor, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985. Acoustics, laser instrumentation in acoustics, and ultrasonics.

K. A. Cunefare* Professor, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1990. Active/passive control, fluid-structure interaction, optimal acoustic design, noise control.

Nico F. Declerq* Associate Professor, Ph.D., Ghent University, 2005. # Periodic media, anisotropic media, nonlinear acoustics, acousto-optics.

F. Levent Degertekin AssociateProfessor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1997; Micromachined sensors and actuators, ultrasonics, atomic force microscopy, and nondestructive evaluation

A. A. Ferri* Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University, 1985. Structural dynamics, vibration of nonlinear and frictional systems, shock and vibration isolation, and structural acoustics.

Laurence J. Jacobs(Joint CEE/ME) Professor, Ph.D. Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1987. Non-destructive evaluation, wave propagation in solids, experimental mechanics.

I. Green Professor, D.Sc., Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, 1984. Hydrodynamic lubrication, vibrations, rotordynamics, fluid sealing, tribology, design and diagnostics. (GWW page)

Michael J. Leamy* Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1998. Dynamics of nanostructured materials, nonlinear dynamics, contact mechanics, multiscale modeling

Thomas E. Michaels (Joint ECE/ME) Associate Professor, Ph.D. Ph.D., Physics, Washington State University, 1972. Measurement technology, ultrasonics, systems and controls.

Karim Sabra* Assocaite Professor, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003. Wave propagation, structural health monitoring, biomechanical systems evaluation, underwater acoustics, and geophysics.

N. Sadegh Associate Professor, Ph.D., University of California, Berkely, 1987. Controls, vibrations, design.

Professors holding joint appointments are listed with their primary affiliation in parenthesis.

* Denotes a primary interest in Acoustics and Dynamics.

Research Faculty

John Doane Research Engineer II.

Francois Guillot Research Engineer II; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000. Acoustic material characterization (elastic properties of passive materials, piezoelectric and electrostrictive constants of polymers); measurement methodology; laser doppler vibrometry; electromechanical transduction and structural acoustics.

Gregg D. Larson Research Engineer II; Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. Transduction, Acoustics, Vibrations, Piezoelectric Ceramics.

James S. Martin Senior Research Engineer; M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1994. Shallow water sound propagation, internal gravity waves, experimental structural acoustics, bioacoustics/biomimetics, nondestructive testing, and nonlinear bubble dynamics.

Dave Trivett Principal Research Scientist, M.S., University of Wisconsin (Madison) 1976, structural acoustics, measurement methodology, transduction mechanisms, acoustic materials, and sonar systems. 


Facilities

Facilities associated with the Acoustics and Vibrations Laboratory within the School of Mechanical Engineering include the acoustic large water tank facility, two laser acoustics laboratories, a bioacoustics laboratory, an atmospheric acoustics propagation modeling facility, and a vibrations laboratory. 


Research

The research programs in Acoustics and Vibrations cover a broad rage of topics with a particular emphasis on structural and underwater acoustics. Annual research funding is currently well above $2,000,000 and almost all graduate students in the Acoustics and Vibrations group receive a stipend in the form of a graduate research assistantship (GRA). Research funding is derived primarily from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, NASA, and industries such as Ford, Cummins Engine Co., Lockheed, Newport News Shipbuilding, and Tenneco.

Recent areas of research include:

 

 

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