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(GRI) at Penn State. He had served two terms as an Associate Editor of the
ASME Journal of Mechanical Design. He is also a past chair of the ASME
Power Transmission and Gearing Committee.
Dr. Singh has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has 9
patents issued/pending. He has been recognized with the Boss Kettering
Award, GM’s highest technical honor. He is a Fellow of the ASME.
VIB KEYNOTE – DEN HARTOG AWARD
LECTURE
Monday, August 7
9:10am–10:50am
Room 26 A Kalman Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Best
K. W. Wang
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
“Inspired by Nature – Adaptive Modular Metastructures”
Abstract: During the past few decades, due to the advances in materials,
electronics, and system integration technologies, structural dynamics and
controls researchers in various engineering disciplines (e.g., aerospace,
civil, mechanical) have been investigating the feasibility of creating
adaptive structures. The vision is to develop a multifunctional structural
system that has various embedded and distributed autonomous functionalities,
such as vibration and stability controls, shape reconfiguration and morphing,
materials and mechanical property variations, energy harvesting, and
health monitoring and healing. From a structural system point of view, one
of the major challenges is on how to best synthesize the cross-field and
local-global coupling characteristics of the various adaptive materials and
elements to optimize the overall structure performance. In recent years,
interesting approaches have been explored to achieve adaptive meta-
structures based on synergistic modular architectures, often observed in
nature, such as in biological or atomistic systems. It is recognized that to
achieve significant new advances in adaptive structural systems,
researchers have to conduct even more cross talks among various fields.
This presentation will discuss some of the recent interdisciplinary research
efforts in synthesizing nature-inspired adaptive metastructures for
structural mechanics, vibration and wave adaptation and controls.
Biography: Dr. Kon-Well Wang is the Stephen P. Timoshenko Professor and
Tim Manganello/BorgWarner Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. degree from the
University of California at Berkeley in 1985, worked at the General Motors
Research Labs as a Senior Research Engineer, and then started his
academic career at the Pennsylvania State University in 1988. At Penn State,
Professor Wang has served as, among others, the William E. Diefenderfer
Chaired Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Director of the Structural
Dynamics and Controls Lab, Associate Director of the Vertical Lift Research
Center of Excellence, and Group Leader for the Center for Acoustics and
Vibration. He joined the University of Michigan in 2008.
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Professor Wang’s main technical interests are in structural dynamics and
vibrations. His work has created new emerging directions in the field via
exploring piezoelectric circuitry networks, multistable & metastable
modular structures, fluidic cellular-composites and origami, and nano-
composites. He has developed knowledge and methodologies to
synthesize novel adaptive structural systems for advancements in vibration
control and damping, vibration confinement and localization, vibration
energy harvesting, damage identification, wave propagation tailoring,
shape morphing, and energy trapping & absorption. Professor Wang is a
Fellow of the ASME, the Institute of Physics (IOP), and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He has received
numerous awards; including the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials
Lifetime Achievement Award, the ASME Adaptive Structures and Materials
Systems Award, the ASME N. O. Myklestad Award, the ASME Rudolf
Paper Awards, the NASA Tech Brief Award, and the SAE Ralph Teetor
Education Award. He has delivered many Keynote/Plenary lectures at
ASME, SPIE and AIAA conferences in the U.S., as well as at various
international conferences in Europe and Asia.
Professor Wang has provided extensive service and leadership to the
professional community. He has chaired the ASME Technical Committee on
Vibration and Sound, the ASME Mechanical Engineering Department
Heads Executive Committee, and various standing committees for the
ASME. He has been a member of the ASME Design Engineering Division
Executive Committee and Technical Branch/Committee in Adaptive
Structures in ASME and AIAA. He has organized and led various
workshops and conferences, such as the SPIE Damping and Isolation
Conference and the ARO Workshop on Smart Structures. He has been
involved in many editorial activities, including served as the Chief Technical
Editor for the ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics. He is currently an
Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Journal of Sound & Vibration, an
Editorial Board Member for book series on Computational and
Experimental Methods in Structures, and an Associate Editor for the
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems & Structures.