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Awards

EPHRAHIM GARCIA BEST PAPER AWARD                                             Abstract

This ASMS award was established in memory of Professor Garcia’s              Additive manufacturing of nickel–titanium has two distinct advantages
extraordinary contributions in scholarship, education, and service to the    over conventional methods. It circumvents the difficulties associated with
field of smart materials and adaptive structures.                            machining of nickel–titanium and it provides a freedom-of-design that
                                                                             conventional processing cannot match. In this article, we analyze the
2017 EPHRAHIM GARCIA BEST PAPER AWARD                                        effects of processing parameters on the structural and functional
                                                                             outcomes of selective laser melted nickel–titanium parts. Notably, we
Jason M. Walker, Christoph Haberland, Mohsen Taheri Andani, Haluk Ersin      expand the parametric envelope compared to the previous studies by
Karaca, David Dean, and Mohammad Elahinia, “Process development and          utilizing a higher power 300 W laser. Optimal process parameters are
characterization of additively manufactured nickel–titanium shape            identified for additively manufacturing of nickel–titanium parts with
memory parts,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures.       verified shape memory behavior and complex structures with accurate
27(19), 2653-2660, 2016.                                                     features are fabricated.

                                                                             ASME ASMS TC 2017 BEST PAPER AWARD

Jason M. Walker

Department of Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State

University, Columbus, OH, USA                                                There are three best-paper awards established by the ASME Adaptive

Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory, Department                             Structures and Materials Systems Technical Committee (ASMS TC): 1)

of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing 		                               Structural Dynamics and Control Best Paper Award, 2) Materials and

	 Engineering, The University of Toledo,                                     Systems Best Paper Award, and 3) Energy Harvesting Best Paper Award.

	 Toledo, OH, USA	                                                           Papers published in journal publications relevant to smart materials and

                                                                             structures and conference proceedings sponsored by the ASMS

Christoph Haberland                                                          committee are eligible for the best-paper competition. Nominated papers

Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory, Department                             are sent out for review. The winners of this year’s awards are listed below.

of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing                                  2017 BEST PAPER IN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH,

USA
                                                                               Ryan L. Harne and Danielle T. Lynd, 2016, “Origami acoustics: using

                                                                             principles of folding structural acoustics for simple and large focusing of

Mohsen Taheri Andani                                                         sound energy,” Smart Materials and Structures, 25(8): 085031.

S.M. Wu Manufacturing Research Center, Department

of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering,

                         University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA          Ryan L. Harne
                         Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory, Department 	  Ohio State University
	 of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing 		

	 Engineering, The University of Toledo,

	 Toledo, OH, USA

Haluk Ersin Karaca                                                           Danielle T. Lynd
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of                          Ohio State University
Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

David Dean                                                                   Abstract                                                                      23
Department of Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State
University, Columbus, OH, USA                                                Fixed in spatial distribution, arrays of planar, electromechanical acoustic
                                                                             transducers cannot adapt their wave energy focusing abilities unless each
Mohammad Elahinia                                                            transducer is externally controlled, creating challenges for the
Dynamic and Smart Systems Laboratory, Department                             implementation and portability of such beamforming systems. Recently,
of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing                                  planar, origami-based structural tessellations are found to facilitate great
Engineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH,                           versatility in system function and properties through kinematic folding. In
USA                                                                          this research we bridge the physics of acoustics and origami-based
                                                                             design to discover that the simple topological reconfigurations of a
                                                                             Miura-ori-based acoustic array yield many orders of magnitude worth of
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