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Welcome Letters

IDETC/CIE

29TH CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL VIBRATION AND NOISE (VIB)

Welcome to the 29th ASME Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB)! The VIB Conference is sponsored by the Technical Committee
on Vibration and Sound and is supported by the Technical Committee on Multibody Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics, both under ASME’s Design
Engineering Division. The VIB Conference began in 1967 and was originally held in odd-numbered years. The conference is now held annually as
part of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences.

The VIB Conference theme is deliberately broad, covering all aspects of vibratory systems. You will discover a diverse mixture of papers from the
forefront of emerging fields, from traditional and nontraditional academic research, and from industrial applications. The quality and breadth of
papers in this conference series makes it one of the most technically interesting conferences held by ASME, and one of the best to meet
colleagues from around the world.

The conference is highlighted by keynote lectures from two eminent researchers:

• Professor I.Y. Steve Shen (University of Washington), recipient of the • Professor Kon-Well Wang (University of Michigan), recipient of the
Myklestad Award for major innovative contribution to vibration Den Hartog Award for lifetime contributions to the teaching and
engineering. practice of vibration engineering.

Papers were solicited in symposia covering a range of important vibration and noise topics. The symposia and their organizers are:

• Structures and Continuous Systems • Industrial Applications of Dynamics, Vibration, and Acoustics
o Dumitru Caruntu, Weidong Zhu, and Marco Amabili o Brian Olson, Matthew Brake, Bruce Geist, Ron Couch, and
Matt Lear
• Vibration Control, Energy Harvesting, and Smart Structures
o Ryan Harne, Lei Zuo, and Alper Erturk • Emerging Systems and Applications
o Dane Quinn, Stephanos Theodossiades, and Venkat
• Nonlinear Systems and Phenomena Ramakrishnan
o Stefano Lenci, Jose Balthazar, Paulo Goncalves, and Farbod
Alijani • Dynamics of MEMS and NEMS
o Mohammad Younis, Slava Krylov, Najib Kacem, and Jian Zhao
• Vibration and Stability of Mechanical Systems
o Christopher Cooley and Robert Parker • Dynamics and Control of Biomechanical Systems
o Dumitru Caruntu, Bogdan Epureanu, and Davide Piovesan
• Jointed Structures, Contact, Friction, and Damping
o Matthew Brake, Aldo Ferri, Matthew Allen, and Adam Brink • Dynamics of Mechanical and Acoustic Metamaterials
o Ryan Harne, Chengzhi Shi, and Massimo Ruzzene
• Rotating Systems and Rotor Dynamics
o C. Nataraj, Regis Dufour, Paolo Pennacchi, and Kshitij Gupta • Time-Varying and Time-Delay Systems
o Matthew Allen, Robert Parker, and Matthew Brake
• System Identification, Damage Detection and Diagnostics
o Weidong Zhu and Yongfeng Xu

We encourage you to become more involved with the conference through attending the Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound’s annual
fall meeting, on Tuesday night of the conference.

Chair Program Chair
Dumitru Caruntu Matthew Brake
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Rice University

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