The Jack R. Vinson Lecture
Friday, October 7, 2005
10:15-11:15 AM
106 Center for Composite Materials
Dr. Daniel J. Inman
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Autonomous Structures: Adding Some Intelligence to Smart Structures"
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For some time the smart materials and structures community has focused on transducer effects and the closest advance into actually having the "structure" show signs of intelligence is to include adaptive control implemented with a smart structures. Here we examine taking this a step further by attempting to combine embedded computing into a smart structure system for the purpose of structural health monitoring using fiber composite actuators and sensors. The system of focus here is based on an integrated structural health monitoring system, a panel in this case, consisting of a completely wireless, active sensing system with embedded electronics.
Refreshments will be served!
About the speaker:
Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Director of the Center for Intelligent Material Systems and Structures and the G.R. Goodson Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. Since 1980, he has published five books (on vibration, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 165 journal papers and 250 proceedings papers, given 26 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 40 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 60 MS degrees. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He was an NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1984-1989). He is currently Technical Editor of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Technical Editor of the Shock and Vibration Digest, and Technical Editor of the journal Shock and Vibration.
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