We had a nice time sharing thanksgiving with Remi, V and Sriram! Thanks for coming! Help me in congratulating Sriram for winning the Royster Award from the Acoustical Society of America's North Carolina Chapter. Sriram and Kevin went to NC today to participate in a poster competition at Chapel Hill. The work presented was entitled "Characterization of acoustic emissions with ambient noise using the a novel Continuous Acoustic Scanning Technique (CAST)." The work is based on a side project that Sriram has been working on, in order to develop a new technique for acoustic characterization - CAST. It should also be mentioned that Kevin Lefeave has helped in this work and it was the initial work started with Carlos Garcia. Way to go guys. Mico Woolard, Ivan Vu, Jacob Aber and Dr. Tarazaga gave a demonstration on mechanical vibrations to the inVenTs community. The inVenTs Residential Community provides an interdisciplinary living-learning space for students interested in exploring their ability to envision, create and transform innovative ideas into action. We talked about the importance of math, in particular how to solve differential equations with physical meaning and how linear algebra is crucial to understand system of equation describing motion. We also demonstrated, with some physical demos, how modes are identified in structural systems and how to make a vibration absorber and experimentally see how it works. The ASME 2013 Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems (SMASIS) was held September 16-18, 2013 in Snowbird, Utah. The conference was at a very nice venue and the talks were excellent. VAST had 4 papers to present this year:
Virginia Tech's Smart Infrastructure Laboratory (VT-SIL) mission is to advance education and research in topics that utilize sensor information to improve the design, monitoring and daily operation of civil and mechanical infrastructure as well as to investigate how humans interact with the built environment. The centerpiece of VT-SIL will be a full-scale living laboratory in the new, 160,000 square foot, Signature Engineering Building (SEB) on the Virginia Tech campus. In conjunction with the VT College of Engineering, VT-SIL is currently developing and building this living laboratory, where over 140 accelerometer mounts (3 axis per mount capability), along with other sensors, are being mounted throughout the entire building. Upon completion, the SEB will be the most instrumented building for vibrations in the world. We welcome our new members Jacob Aber, M.S. Student, and Rémi Fernandes da Silva a visiting scholar from ICAM France. We also took the chance to introduce Rémi to Carol Lee doughnuts and the american consumption of sugar.
We also celebrated Bryan, Sriram and Heather's birthday. Happy Birthday guys! Congratulations to Sriram Malladi for being selected as the best paper in symposium 3: Modeling, Simulation and Control of Adaptive Systems at the upcoming ASME SMASIS 2013 for his paper entitled "Control Of Strain Characteristics Of SMA Wires Using Seebeck Voltage." He will be honored at the Pioneer Banquet on Tuesday Sept 17th during the conference. We wish him luck as he prepares to also compete for Best Overall Paper at the SMASIS 2013 conference.
Presentation at MAOP conference
Tarek joined our group as part of the Multicultural Academic Opportunities Program (MAOP) at Virginia Tech. Tarek's project entitled "Impedance Based Structural Health Monitoring of Insulated Rail Joint" was sponsored by MAOP. Tarek gave an oral presentation as well as participated in poster session. Great job Tarek.
© 2012 Sriram Malladi
One more set of congratulations to Sriram Malladi for the completion of his thesis. It is now available for download at Virginia Tech's etd website. link: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06032013-114013/ During the summer Virginia Tech's CEED host the Student Transition Engineering Program (STEP). Dr. Tarazaga with the aid of Bryan Joyce, Tarek Alkhulaidy, Paul Asbury and Sriram Malladi gave a talk to STEP about University, Education, Engineering and Smart Materials. STEP is a great program for incoming freshmen where they get a chance to experience campus life before hand and hit the ground running when the semester starts. |
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