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Symposia Invited Speakers
Biography assessing the health of aerospace structures by connecting nonlinearities
Dr. Jon Luntz is an Associate Research Scientist at the Department of across the scales. The talk will also include a discussion on exploiting the
Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, which he joined in sensitivity the nonlinear parameters to fatigue damage precursors.
2000 after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University with his Ph.D. in Connecting nonlinearities across the macro- and micro-states is key in
1999 and from SUNY Buffalo with his B.S. in 1992. Early in his career, he monitoring the evolution of damage precursors. This can be achieved
was a founding contributor to the field of Distributed Robotic Manipulation when the effects of these connections are included in the equations of
and then branched into the field of Smart Materials and Structures. As a motion; i.e. the interplay between local nonlinearities (or materials
thrust area leader in the General Motors/University of Michigan micro-plasticity) and macro nonlinearities (global dynamic parameters).
Collaborative Research Lab in Smart Materials and Structures, he worked Technical and scientific challenges, and potential directions for enabling
to develop innovative devices, actuation architectures, and design scale-bridging structural health monitoring in aerospace applications will
methodologies, processes, and tools focusing primarily on the use of be discussed.
Shape Memory Alloy actuators. Currently, he works as part of the GM/UM
CRL on Multifunctional Vehicle Systems, where he leads innovation on Biography
highly functional inflatable architectures and devices under the Dr. Ed Habtour is a Principle Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National
Multifunctional Active System Technologies thrust, as well as developing Laboratories. Prior to joining Sandia, Ed has held technical and leadership
systematic design methodologies for customer facing products under the positions at the Space Dynamics Laboratory, ATK (formally Swales
Neurotech thrust, integrating customer perception and technology design. Aerospace), Northrop Grumman, and U.S. Army Materiel System Activity
Under the MVS CRL, he also operates the Technology Incubator which Analysis, U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). Ed’s research focuses on
focuses on exploratory work for the development of innovative new identifying and understanding the innate nonlinear connections and
technologies. Along with his automotive research, he is currently interactions observed in dynamical systems. The overarching goal is to
developing a medical device to correct short bowel syndrome, which, with develop efficient scale-bridging relations that govern nonlinear
its adoption by the newly formed Teitelbaum Foundation, is approaching connections in time-variant systems and utilizing them to achieve novel
the final stages of development for first-in-human clinical trials. As part of functions. He earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State
these efforts, he has published over 120 referred journal and conference University. He also earned three Master’s in Engineering from Johns
publications and has been awarded 15 US and international patents with Hopkins University, Purdue University, and University of Maryland.
10 pending. For his research, he has been awarded the ASME Best Paper Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of
Award in Structures and Structural Dynamics, the Hartwell Award, the Ted Nondestructive Evaluation, Diagnostics and Prognostics, and a member of
Kennedy Team Excellence Award, the UM COE Kenneth M. Reese Engineering Mechanics Institute Structural Health Monitoring & Control
Outstanding Research Scientist Award, and the NSF CAREER award. Committee. Ed has served in international technical committees and
panels. He published over 70 technical papers. Ed received several
SYMPOSIUM 5 awards, including U.S. Dept. of Army Commander’s Award, ARL Science
Award, U.S. Dept. of Army Achievement Award, U.S. Army Commander’s
Award, and IEEE Evans/P.K. McElroy Award.
SCALE-BRIDGING FOR STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING SYMPOSIUM 6
Ed Habtour BIOINSPIRED AERIAL AND TERRESTRIAL LOCOMOTION
Principe Member of Technical Staff STRATEGIES
Sandia National Laboratories
Abstract Aimy Wissa
Assistant Professor
Most of aerospace vehicles are inherently nonlinear systems, and operate Mechanical Science and Engineering Department
in highly complex environments. Common methods for monitoring and for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
assessing the structural health of aerospace systems are typically based
on linear or simplified models. Consequently, engineers compensate by Abstract
including multiple safety and correction factors, which often comes with
penalties, such as an increase in the vehicle’s size, weight, or both. In this Nature has evolved various locomotion (self-propulsion) and shape
talk, we provide promising nonlinear system identification techniques for adaptation (morphing) strategies to survive and thrive in diverse and
uncertain environments. Both in air and on the ground, natural organisms
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