2023
- Feb. 22. Charles El Helou successfully defends his PhD dissertation, “Information Processing in Soft, Conductive Mechanical Materials”. Congrats Charles!
- Feb. 2. The LSVR paper on programming metastable transitions in mechanical materials appears in Extreme Mechanics Letters.
2022
- Oct. 6. Dr. Harne gives a talk on intelligent materials at Research Unplugged in State College, PA, a community-focused science event.
- Sept. 6. Dr. Harne gives a talk at the Penn State Millennium Cafe on the subject of a dream to animate inanimate matter.
- Aug. 24. The LSVR paper on mechanical integrated circuit materials is published in Nature and featured on Interesting Engineering, Science Daily, and other news outlets.
- July 1. The LSVR paper on rapid pneumatic control of bimodal hierarchical mechanical materials is published in Advanced Engineering Materials.
- June 1. The LSVR paper on nonlinear response in Helmholtz resonators for broadband, low frequency noise control is published in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
- May 23. The LSVR presents 3 papers at the Acoustical Society of America’s spring meeting in Denver, CO.
- May 16. Haley Tholen begins a summer-long NSF/AFRL INTERN program at the Air Force Research Lab Soft Matter Branch to explore application of liquid crystal elastomers to our intelligent materials.
- Apr. 1. The LSVR paper on acoustic wave focusing from reconfigurable arrays based on Bricard-Miura synthesis is published in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
- Mar. 29. Dr. Harne speaks at the Hopkins Extreme Mechanics Institute on the subject of intelligent materials.
- Mar. 13. The LSVR presents 3 papers at the American Physical Society’s March meeting in Chicago, IL.
- Feb. 1. The NSF paper on machine learning applied to direct current power delivery in energy harvesting systems is published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
2021
- Dec. 31. The LSVR begins a research project with Owens Corning on the subject of ultrasonic characterization of cellular materials.
- Aug. 25. Postdoc alumnus Maya Pishvar starts her tenure-track appointment at California State University at Northridge in Mechanical Engineering! Congrats on this new journey!
- Aug. 23. The LSVR welcomes a new member: Haley Tholen! Haley will study functional and field-responsive materials as constituents in our platform for intelligent engineered matter.
- Aug. 1. The LSVR paper on cut-out resonators for structural vibration control is released in Thin-Walled Structures and featured in news outlets such as Phys.org.
- June 1. The LSVR paper on reconfigurable acoustic arrays based on Hoberman-Miura synthesis is published in the Journal of Mechanical Design.
- May 9. Congrats to our graduates Wen Cai, Sih-Ling Yeh, and Mahnoor Ajaz! We wish you the best on your next adventures in academia and industry!
- Apr. 20. The Penn State News reports on the LSVR research on soft, autonomous engineered matter with a vision for engineered living systems.
- Apr. 15. Congrats to Sih-Ling Yeh for a perfect defense of her PhD thesis! Sih-Ling studied structurally integrated metamaterials that would serve a wide variety of vibration and wave control contexts. This entailed understanding how dynamic strain energy transfers between host structure and the metamaterial, which are details overlooked by many prior researchers in the field. Well done Sih-Ling!
- Apr. 13. Congrats to Wen Cai for successfully defending her PhD thesis! Wen developed the first modeling infrastructure for high-dimensional multiphysics systems undergoing nonlinear deformation far from equilibrium and used it to study a wide range of problems pertinent to vibration energy harvesting. Way to go!
- Apr. 9. Congrats to Mahnoor Ajaz for a successful MS thesis defense! Mahnoor did a superb job to share about her formulation of a finite difference time domain modeling formulation for interior/exterior acoustics problems involving ultrasonic parametric arrays. After graduation, Mahnoor will join GE Research in New York. Go get em!
- Mar. 12. The LSVR paper on digital logic gates realized in soft, conductive mechanical metamaterials appears in Nature Communications.
- Mar. 1. Maya Pishvar accepts a tenure track faculty position at California State University Northridge! Congrats on achieving this significant step in your academic trajectory!
- Feb. 20. The LSVR receives an STTR grant from NASA with Nokomis, Inc. to analyze vibration spectra and damping potential for high bandwidth radio antenna.
2020
- Dec. 12. The LSVR paper on directed acoustic energy using flasher-based origami inspired acoustic arrays appears in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
- Oct. 15. The LSVR paper on soft topologically protected metamaterials with polar elasticity appears in Physical Review Applied.
- Oct. 1. The LSVR paper on liquid metal microchannels as digital sensors in mechanical metamaterials appears in Extreme Mechanics Letters.
- Sept. 10. The LSVR review paper on soft, smart matter realized by active mechanical metamaterials appears in Advanced Science.
- Sept. 1. The LSVR paper on asymmetric vibration energy harvesting dynamics due to arbitrary base excitations appears in the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- Aug. 19. LSVR graduate Dr. Shichao Cui begins a postdoctoral research position at the University of Minnesota. Congrats Shichao!
- Aug. 15. The LSVR welcomes 2 new members to the team: Lance Hyatt and Chris Bentley! Lance and Chris are both pursuing their PhD degrees. Welcome to the Team!
- Aug. 1. Dr. Harne receives the ASME CD Mote Jr. Early Career Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
- May 23. The LSVR paper on structurally integrated resonators for broadband vibration suppression appears in Smart Materials and Structures.
- May 11. The LSVR paper on sound propagation from doubly-curved origami-based acoustic arrays appears in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
- May 3. Congratulations to our recent LSVR graduates: Dr. Shichao Cui (Ph.D.), Zach Nick (M.S.), Vivek Srinivas (M.S.), and Ningxiner Zhao (M.S.). Well done on your great achievements!!
- May 1. The LSVR paper on bio-heat generation by origami-inspired reconfigurable acoustic arrays appears in Ultrasonics.
- Apr. 1. The LSVR paper on characterizing shock response and collapse of elastomeric metastructures appears in Extreme Mechanics Letters.
- Jan. 9. The LSVR Team hosts a bagel day at the Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University. Check out the People page for photos of the event!
- Jan. 4. The LSVR paper on harnessing acoustic-structure interaction in soft matter-based Helmholtz resonators appears in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
2019
- Dec. 27. The LSVR paper establishing a concept for near total absorption of low frequency sound with soft matter appears in Physical Review Applied.
- Dec. 23. Wen Cai receives the 2020 OSU Presidential Fellowship, the highest honor given to graduate students at OSU! Congrats! News story.
- Nov. 21. Congratulations to Katie Frost for being awarded a scholarship from the OSU College of Engineering following the successful acceptance of her Honors Research Program proposal!
- Oct. 23. Sih-Ling Yeh successfully completes her PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
- Oct. 21. Wen Cai successfully completes her PhD candidacy exam. Congratulations!
- Oct. 14. The LSVR paper predicting mechanical properties in functionally graded elastomeric metamaterials appears in Advanced Engineering Materials.
- Aug. 26. The LSVR is awarded a grant from the Ford Motor Company titled “Low Frequency, Broadband Noise Control and Enhanced Interior Environment by Integrated Helmholtz Resonators”.
- Aug. 23. The LSVR is awarded a grant from the Ford Motor Company titled “Enhancing Interior Acoustics and Vehicle NVH by Next Generation Engine/Body Mounts for Lightweight AV and Battery-Electric Vehicles”.
- Aug. 20. The LSVR welcomes a new postdoctoral researcher Dr. Maya Pishvar, and welcome Charles El-Helou former honors undergraduate student and now PhD student!
- Aug. 19. The LSVR contributes one technical papers to the ASME IDETC/CIE (Anaheim, CA) and helps to coordinate the whole conference student activities and events.
- May 20. Zach Nick, Charles El-Helou, and Dr. Harne undertake an Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship with the Materials and Manufacturing Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to study gallium-indium-based liquid metal composites as tools for new flexible electronic soft matter. Fortunately, they also all survive the tornado that ran through their housing accommodations on 28 May 2019!
- May 13. The LSVR contributes three technical papers to the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Louisville, KY).
- Apr. 11. Ben Goodpaster (LSVR MS 2018) receives the inaugular 2019 Hirschvogel Excellence Award for the best MS thesis in the MAE Department in 2018. Congratulations Ben for this significant achievement and for setting the bar so high!
- Apr. 4. Adam successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis entitled “Implementing 3D Digital Image Correlation to Study the Dynamics of Globally-Coupled Multistable Structures”. Congrats!
- Apr. 3. Charles successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis entitled “Design and Fabrication of Magnetoelastic Metamaterials for Enhancing the Adaptation of Static and Dynamic Properties”. Congrats!
- Apr. 2. Abdullahi successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Program thesis entitled “Miura-ori Origami Inspired Tessellated Arrays for a Reconfigurable Patch Antenna”. Congrats!
- Apr. 1. The LSVR paper investigating the contributions from reflected and diffracted acoustic wave fields radiated from tessellated arrays appears in the journal Wave Motion.
- Mar. 28. Ningxiner, Charles, Anpeksh, Zach, and Vivek contribute poster presentations to the NSF IUCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center meeting. Great poster presentations! Photos on the People page.
- Mar. 4. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2019 SPIE Smart Structures + Non-Destructive Evaluation Conference (Denver, CO). See the People page for photos of the time and presentations. Congrats to Sih-Ling Yeh and Wen Cai for excellent presentations!
- Feb. 25. Congratulations to Abdullahi Inshaar and Charles El-Helou for receiving Best-In-Class Research Poster Presentation Awards at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Abdullahi was awarded the 1st prize and Charles was awarded the 3rd prize in the category of Structural and Material Fabrication and Design.
- Feb. 20. Adam DeNise, Charles El-Helou, and Abdullahi Inshaar are awarded positions to present during the 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. They present their respective research posters before a competitive class of university-wide undergraduate researchers. Congrats, Adam, Charles, and Abdullahi! Photos on the People page and in the MAE tweet.
2018
- Nov. 19. Peter Vuyk successfully defends his undergraduate Honors Research Thesis. Congrats, Peter!
- Nov. 13. Sih-Ling Yeh presents her research on targeted mode attenuation in optimized elastomeric metamaterials as a part of the Parker Hannifin Student Lecture Series.
- Nov. 13. Wen Cai presents her research on optimization of piezoelectric energy harvesting structures as a part of the Parker Hannifin Student Lecture Series.
- Nov. 2. The LSVR paper on electrical power management appears in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
- Oct. 22. The LSVR paper on piecewise assembled, tessellated acoustic arrays appears in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
- Oct. 16. The LSVR paper on dynamic response of flexible hybrid electronic material systems appears in Composite Structures.
- Sept. 25. The LSVR paper on e-textile- and origami-based dipole antennas appears in the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters.
- Sept. 5. Shichao Cui successfully defends her PhD candidacy proposal. Congratulations!
- Aug. 26. The LSVR contributes 3 technical papers to the ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2018) (Quebec City, Quebec, Canada).
- Aug. 21. Congratulations to Sih-Ling Yeh for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!
- Aug. 14. Congratulations to Adam DeNise, Charles, El-Helou, Abdullahi Inshaar, and Hamil Shah for being awarded Undergraduate Research Scholarships as they embark on their Honors Research Programs!
- Aug. 13. The LSVR receives a grant from the Institute for Materials Research titled “Establishing Computational and Experimental Frameworks to Elucidate Magnetoelastic Interactions in Smart Metamaterials”.
- Aug. 11. Congratulations to Chengzhe Zou for being a recipient of the 2018/19 academic year Future Academic Scholars Training (FAST) Fellowship as awarded by the OSU MAE Department!
- Aug. 1. The LSVR paper on elastomeric metamaterials with multiple vibration control capabilities appears in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
- July 17. The LSVR goes to the Columbus Zoo, just because we wanted to. See the People page for photos.
- July 14. The LSVR paper on generalized, modal analyses of harmonically excited multistable structures appears in the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- June 28. The LSVR paper on analytical modeling of the nonlinear dynamics of beams in extreme thermomechanical environments appears in the Journal of Applied Mechanics.
- June 25. The LSVR undertakes a summer Research Show & Tell Breakfast mini-conference. See the People page for photos from the event.
- June 8. The LSVR paper on integrating flexible hybrid electronics with tunable material systems appears in Advanced Engineering Materials.
- June 4. The LSVR paper on exploiting magnetically coupled piezoelectric beams for impulse-based vibration energy harvesting appears in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
- May 23. The LSVR paper on impact energy dissipation properties of mechanical metamaterials appears in Advanced Engineering Materials.
- May 10. The LSVR contributes three technical papers to the 175th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Minneapolis, MN).
- May 2. The LSVR is awarded a grant from the Ford Motor Company titled “Creating Personalized and Shielded Sound Fields via Ultrasonic Parametric Array Noise Control”.
- Apr. 30. The LSVR paper on impedance and spectral behaviors of multistable structures during dynamic bifurcations appears in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
- Apr. 25. Nick Sears successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congrats Nick!
- Apr. 20. Peter Vuyk receives the 2018 Outstanding Leadership and Research Award from the OSU Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Congratulations Peter!
- Apr. 10. Ben Goodpaster successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congrats Ben!
- Apr. 2. Peter Vuyk participates in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum and receives Third Prize in the Engineering category for his poster presentation. Congrats for a successful presentation! See the People page for a photo.
- Mar. 30. Katie Frost is awarded a College of Engineering Undergraduate Summer Research Scholarship. This highly competitive award will enable Katie to explore modular origami structures during the upcoming summer months at the LSVR. Congratulations!
- Mar. 16. Dr. Harne receives the National Science Foundation CAREER award on the topic of “Adaptive Origami Structures for Acoustic Wave Guiding”.
- Mar. 5. The LSVR contributes one technical paper to the 2018 SPIE Smart Structures + Non-Destructive Evaluation Conference (Denver, CO).
- Mar. 1. Shichao Cui, Sih-Ling Yeh, and Chengzhe Zou present their research posters as a part of the NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center spring meeting.
- Mar. 1. The LSVR paper on methods to analyze nonlinear vibration energy harvesters with rectification circuitry in ambient vibration environments appears in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
- Feb. 5. Congratulations to Chengzhe Zou for successfully defending his Ph.D. Candidacy Proposal!
- Jan. 31. Dr. Harne participates in the Metro School “State of STEM” event to discuss the formulation of the Metro School STEM-based education model and how it promotes diversity, active learning, and workforce-preparedness for students throughout Central Ohio.
- Jan. 19. Congratulations to Wen Cai for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!
- Jan. 11. The LSVR paper on reconfigurable tessellated acoustic arrays appears in Physical Review Applied.
- Jan. 2. Congratulations to Shichao Cui for being awarded the 2017 Beverley Swain Staley Leadership Graduate Scholarship, as selected by the Women of Transportation Society!
- Jan. 1. The LSVR paper on a computational approach to synthesize origami-inspired acoustic transducer arrays appears in the Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics by the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
- Jan. 1. The LSVR paper on adaptive magnetoelastic metamaterials appears in the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.
2017
- Dec. 15. Congratulations to Peter Vuyk for being awarded a scholarship from the OSU College of Engineering following the successful acceptance of his Honors Research Program proposal!
- Dec. 13. Shichao Cui, Nick Sears, and Quanqi Dai present their research at Ford Motor Company as part of the Center for Automotive Research Industry Consortium Project Review Meeting. See the People page for photos of the day.
- Dec. 4. The LSVR paper on DC power optimization of nonlinear energy harvesters appears in Smart Materials and Structures.
- Dec. 1. The LSVR paper on characterizing nonlinear response of elastomeric material systems appears in the International Journal of Solids and Structures.
- Nov. 15. Congrats to Inhyuk Park for successfully defending his Undergraduate Honors Research thesis!
Nov. 13. Quanqi Dai successfully defends his Master’s thesis. Congrats Quanqi! - Nov. 7. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2017 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, IMECE (Tampa, FL).
- Nov. 2. Shichao Cui and Quanqi Dai present their research posters as a part of the NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center autumn meeting.
- Oct. 23. Dr. Harne appears on the ASME Newsmakers webpage.
- Oct. 16. The LSVR paper on resonant metamaterials with critically constrained inclusions appears in Applied Acoustics.
- Sept. 29. The LSVR paper on exploiting microvascular voids in structural panels for adaptive dynamic properties appears in the Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- Sept. 19. The LSVR receives the 2017 ASME Best Paper Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics for the paper “Origami acoustics: using principles of folding structural acoustics for simple and large focusing of sound energy” published in Smart Materials and Structures. The prestigious award recognizes the best published or presented paper on adaptive structures during the previous calendar year. MAE news link.
- Sept. 18. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2017 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS (Snowbird, UT).
- Sept. 14. Inhyuk Park presents his research poster about vibration energy harvesting with magnetically coupled structures at the Fall Undergraduate Research Forum. See the People page for a photo.
- Aug. 18. Congratulations to Shichao Cui for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!
- Aug. 7. The LSVR contributes four technical papers to the ASME 2017 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE 2017) (Cleveland, OH). See the People page for photos of the time and presentations.
- Aug. 3. The LSVR receives a grant from the National Science Foundation titled “Collaborative Research: Understanding and Harnessing Complex Dynamics of Coupled Mechanical-Electrical System for Improved Vibration Energy Harvesting”.
- July 26. The LSVR paper on methods to exploit local buckling modes in constrained metamaterials appears in the Journal of Vibration and Acoustics.
- June 27. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2017, 173rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Boston, MA), and earns the feature coverage of the society on the press page for our origami acoustics research initiative! Dr. Harne is interviewed at the meeting to describe the efforts.
- June 26. Quanqi Dai appears on the OSU MAE and CAR front webpages in an article about his graduate studies pursuits. Congrats Quanqi for the great coverage and for your graduate works!
- June 23. The LSVR paper investigating how to tailor broadband acoustic energy suppression characteristics in double porosity metamaterials appears in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
- June 22. The LSVR and COSI (Center of Science and Industry) team up for a COSI Camp with a classroom of energetic students from the second/third grades representing diverse schools from the Columbus, OH, area. See the Teaching/Outreach page for further details and photos.
- May 20. The LSVR paper that introduces a new analytical approach to study and characterize the harmonic responses of built-up multistable structures appears in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing.
- May 18. Joseph Crump successfully defends his LSVR internship research at the PAST Foundation. Congrats!
- May 15. Nick Sears and Dr. Harne receive a AFRL/DAGSI Ohio Student-Faculty Research Fellowship to undertake research on “Conductive, Elastomeric Architectures for Enhanced Survivability of Electronic Systems”. The research program will involve summer experimentation at the Air Force Research Lab Materials and Manufacturing Directorate with colleagues during part of the summer term of 2017.
- May 12. The LSVR receives a grant from Owens Corning Science and Technology titled “Development and Characterization of Tile-like Material Systems for Large, Tunable Damping of Shock and Vibration”.
- May 9. Dr. Harne receives a U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship to undertake research that supports the goal of “Enabling Robust and Durable Aerospace Structures for Combined, Extreme Environments”. For this award, Dr. Harne and Ben Goodpaster will conduct the research at the Air Force Research Lab Aerospace Systems Directorate with colleagues during part of the summer term of 2017. OSU MAE news link.
- May 2. Shichao Cui presents her research poster on the subject of double porosity metamaterials as a part of the NSF I/UCRC Smart Vehicle Concepts Center spring meeting. See the People page for a photo.
- May 1. The LSVR is awarded a grant from the Ford Motor Company titled “Engineered Materials and System Integrations for Tunable Stiffness and Damping to Suppress Low Frequency Cabin Noise and for Enhanced Fuel Economy”.
- Apr. 26. Shichao Cui presents her research on double porosity metamaterials as a part of the Parker Hannifin Student Lecture Series.
- Apr. 26. Chengzhe Zou presents his research on foldable, star-shaped acoustic transducers as a part of the Parker Hannifin Student Lecture Series.
- Apr. 19. The LSVR paper investigating the sound-steering and -focusing capabilitiy of star-shaped acoustic transducers appears in Smart Materials and Structures.
- Apr. 14. Dr. Harne shares about the LSVR research on origami acoustics and engineered metamaterials in an invited seminar at Virginia Tech.
- Apr. 6. Congrats to Danielle Lynd, Sansriti Saxena, Ben Goodpaster, and Yu Song for successfully defending their Undergraduate Honors Research theses!
- Apr. 2. Dr. Harne’s book is released by the publisher Wiley. The book title is “Harnessing Bistable Structural Dynamics: For Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting and Sensing” and it is available in paper and digital formats. The book is featured on the OSU MAE webpages.
- Apr. 1. The LSVR paper in Smart Materials and Structures introducing the principles of origami acoustics is selected as a Highlight of 2016 paper. The papers are selected based on their scientific merit, as identified by SMS reviewers, and represent some of the most downloaded and widely read articles published in SMS during 2016.
- Mar. 31. Congrats to Justin Bishop and Nick Sears for successfully defending their Undergraduate Honors Research theses!
- Mar. 29. Six LSVR Team Members participate in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Congrats to Justin Bishop, Ben Goodpaster, Danielle Lynd, Sansriti Saxena, Nick Sears, and Yu Song for successful presentations!
- Mar. 27. The LSVR contributes three technical papers to the 2017 SPIE Smart Structures/Non-Destructive Evaluation Conference (Portland, OR).
- Mar. 7. Quanqi Dai presents his research on vibration energy harvesting in realistic excitation environments as a part of the Center for Automotive Research Seminar Series.
- Mar. 3. The LSVR is awarded a grant from DARPA, along with collaborator Mide Technologies, titled “Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting with Bistable Systems (PEHBS)”.
- Feb. 12. The LSVR paper on a new experimentally-validated analytical framework to characterize susceptibility of post-buckled structures subjected to arbitrary harmonic and random loads appears in Journal of Sound and Vibration.
- Jan. 25. The LSVR paper on analytical and computational model approaches for Miura-ori-based acoustic transducer arrays appears in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
- Jan. 20. Congratulations to Chengzhe Zou for passing the Ph.D. Qualifying Exam!
2016
- Dec. 15. Congratulations to Danielle Lynd for receiving the 2016 Acoustical Society of America Robert W. Young Award for Undergraduate Student Research in Acoustics! Danielle will use the funds from this Society-level Award to propel her experimental studies in our origami acoustics research.
- Nov. 10. The LSVR paper on structural resilience to impact by material inclusions constrained near critical points appears as the cover article for the Advanced Engineering Materials volume 18, issue 11.
- Oct. 26. Dr. Harne receives the 2016 Haythornthwaite Young Investigator Award from the Haythornthwaite Foundation as selected by the ASME Applied Mechanics Division. The Haythornthwaite Award recognizes excellence in theoretical and applied mechanics research for early career faculty.
- Sept. 28. The LSVR contributes three technical papers to the 2016 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS (Stowe, VT).
- Aug. 31. Dr. Harne and Quanqi Dai are invited to present the LSVR research on sustainable vibration energy harvesting before H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco during His Highness’ esteemed visit to OSU (see People page for photo). The LSVR was selected as one of four from over 400 sustainability-focused research teams across OSU to present before the Prince.
- Aug. 22. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences, IDETC (Charlotte, NC).
- Aug. 11. Congratulations to several LSVR Team Members for being awarded a scholarship from the OSU College of Engineering following the successful acceptance of their Honors Research Program proposals. Congratulations go out to Justin Bishop, Ben Goodpaster, Danielle Lynd, Sansriti Saxena, and Yu Song! Well done!
- July 18. The LSVR paper on adaptive sound energy-focusing by foldable, tessellated, origami-inspired acoustic structures appears in Smart Materials and Structures.
- June 30. Congratulations to Danielle Lynd for receiving the Best Paper by a Young Presenter Award Third Prize at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America! The award honors Danielle’s paper presentation entitled “Acoustic beamfolding: new potentials enabled by interfacing reconfigurable origami and acoustic structures.” News link.
- June 3. The LSVR paper on poroelastic hyperdamping metamaterials appears in Extreme Mechanics Letters.
- May 24. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2016, 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (Salt Lake City, UT).
- Apr. 24. Congratulations to Nick Sears for being awarded a scholarship from the OSU College of Engineering following the successful acceptance of his Honors Research Program proposal!
- Apr. 28. The LSVR is awarded an Exploratory Research Program grant from The OSU Center for Automotive Research titled “Self-powering sensors for system condition monitoring applications through the captured energy in multistable dynamic structures”.
- Apr. 21. Dr. Harne presents at the STEAM Factory Exchange meeting to share details about the LSVR research activities on vibration energy harvesting and damping using concepts inspired by Trees.
- Apr. 7. Congratulations to Quanqi Dai for a successful defense of his Honors Research Program!
- Mar. 30. Quanqi Dai contributes to the Denman Research Forum to share the results of his experimental research on characterizing susceptibility and robustness of bistable structures, and receives Fourth Prize for his poster presentation. Congratulations Quanqi!
- Mar. 21. The LSVR contributes two technical papers to the 2016 SPIE Smart Structures/Non-Destructive Evaluation Conference (Las Vegas, NV).
- Mar. 18. Dr. Harne gives an invited talk at the Air Force Research Lab (Dayton, OH).
- Mar. 10. Congratulations to Nick Sears for being awarded an NASA Glenn Higher Education Summer Internship for 2016 where he will extend his LSVR research activities and begin new initiatives!
- Feb. 1. Dr. Harne and the LSVR are fea
- tured on the OSU News, the Columbus Dispatch, engadget, Popular Mechanics, Inverse.com, OnCampus, Big Ten Network, Columbus Business First, and Industrial Equipment News for the research efforts to harvest ambient vibration energies using tree-like structures.
2015
- Dec. 21. Congratulations to Quanqi Dai for being awarded a scholarship from the OSU College of Engineering following the successful acceptance of his Honors Research Program proposal!
- Oct. 28. The LSVR contributes one technical paper to the 2015 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, DSCC (Columbus, OH).
- Oct. 23. The LSVR participates in the OSU MAE Graduate Research Open House.
- Sept. 29. Dr. Harne gives an invited talk at the Center for Automotive Research (Columbus, OH).
- Sept. 22. The LSVR contributes one technical paper to the 2015 ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS (Colorado Springs, CO).
- Sept. 10. Dr. Harne gives an invited talk at the Air Force Research Lab (Dayton, OH).
- Aug. 1. The LSVR has open positions for Graduate and Undergraduate Research positions. See the home page for details, and contact Prof. R.L. Harne to express interest in joining the team!