Dan Inman, Wendy Crone, Zhu Mao and Mike Mains
Pictured from left are: Dan Inman, "Kelly" Johnson Collegiate Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IIAV, SEM and AAM; Wendy Crone, Karen Thompson Medhi Professor of the College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, President and Fellow of the Society for Experimental Mechanics; Zhu Mao; and Mike Mains, Conference Director of IMAC, Associate Professor of Practice at University of Cincinnati.

02/25/2019
By Amy Allen

Members of the SDASL Lab attended the 37th International Modal Analysis Conference at the end of January 2019. At the conference, ninr students presented papers along with other papers and presentations by faculty.聽

The SDASL always makes a significant set of presentations at this international conference each year. Many of the papers spanned a wide range of topics currently under development in the SDASL for funded and unfunded projects including Eglin Air Force on Nonlinear Response Analysis, NSF Sustainable Energy Pathway for Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing, NSF CMMI funded Novel Acoustics-based Structural Health Monitoring of Wind Turbine Blades, Naval Underwater Warfare Center Bragg Scattering research, Honeywell and Sandia Fixture Neutralization efforts, Redstone Arsenal work on Optical Dynamic Measurements and other projects. Many of the conference's attendees noted the high caliber of research and especially the quality student presentations at the conference.聽

Many people in group shot
Pictured from left are Deborah Fowler, Murat Inalpolat, Tyler Doveno, Tim Marinone, Lou Thibault, Yuanchang Chen, Julie Harvie, Jesus Reyes, Dagny Joffre, Aral Saffari, Peter Avitabile, Javad Baqersad and wife, Dan Rohe, Chris Beale, Brandon Zwink and wife, Chris Niezrecki, Zhu Mao, Patrick Logan and Tina Dardeno.
During the conference, Zhu Mao also gave the very prestigious Sage Publishing Young Investigator Lecture entitled 鈥淣on-Contact Modal Testing and Uncertainty Quantification in Structural Dynamics Identification鈥.聽 Also, note that Zhu Mao received the Young Investigator Award from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2018 as well as the SEM D. J. DeMichele Scholarship Award in 2011.

In attendance were: Deborah Fowler (PhD candidate 鈥21), Murat Inalpolat (Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering), Tyler Doveno (MS candidate 鈥19), Tim Marinone (ATA Engineering - BS/MS 鈥12鈥), Lou Thibault (MIT-LL BSMS 鈥12), Yuanchang Chen (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥), Julie Harvie (Sandia Labs - BSMS 鈥13鈥), Jesus Reyes (Visiting Professor UML PhD 鈥16鈥), Dagny Joffre (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥), Aral Saffari (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥), Peter Avitabile (Professor Mechanical Engineering UML PhD 鈥98), Javad Baqersad and wife (Kettering University UML PhD 鈥15鈥), Dan Rohe (Sandia PhD candidate 鈥21), Chris Beale (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥), Brandon Zwink and wife (PhD candidate 鈥20), Chris Niezrecki (Professor Mechanical Engineering), Zhu Mao (Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering), Patrick Logan (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥), Tina Dardeno (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥) and Ryan Schultz (PhD candidate 鈥19鈥).

The papers presented for the Proceedings of the 37th International Modal Analysis Conference were:

  • 鈥淰alidation of Force Reconstruction for Linear and Nonlinear System Response鈥 presented by P. Logan
  • 聽鈥淪ome Investigations of Nonlinear Time Response using Linear Modal Approximations鈥 presented by D. Fowler
  • 鈥淎ppropriate Excitation for Extraction of Modes鈥 presented by C. Beale
  • 鈥淪elf-Noise Reduction in Bragg Wavenumber Regions鈥 presented by D. Joffre
  • 鈥淐hebyshev Polynomial Shape Expansion Point Distribution: Selection Sensitivity鈥 presented by Y. Chen
  • 鈥淒ynamic Transient Time Response Expansion: Chebyshev Polynomial Approaches and Polynomial Contribution鈥 presented by Y. Chen
  • 鈥淎 Chebyshev Polynomial Approach for Data Quality Validation and Dynamic Time Response Expansion鈥 presented by Y. Chen
  • 鈥淯se of High-Speed Cameras and Optically-Based Measurement Techniques for Determining Frequency Response Function of Structures鈥 presented by T. Doveno
  • 鈥淚mplementation of the Fixture Neutralization Methodology Using Data Physics Vibration Controller鈥 presented by J. Reyes-Blanco
  • 鈥淔ixture Neutralization Method - Adjustment of Vibration Response to Account for Fixture-Test Article Dynamic Coupling Effects Using Measured Frequency Response Functions鈥 presented by J. Reyes-Blanco
  • 鈥淢odeling and Test Methodologies for Monitoring Femoral Implant Insertion during Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty: Approach Development and Validation using a Press-Fit Cylinder Assembly鈥 presented by T. Dardeno
  • 鈥淢odal Projection Matching鈥 presented by B. Zwink
  • 鈥淧reliminary Investigation of an Acoustics-Based Structural Health Monitoring Technique Applied to Wind Turbine Blades鈥 by C.Beale

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