CAR Seminar: Energy Harvesting and Damping Advancements via Strategically Leveraging Dynamic Snap-through Buckling

This presentation will describe recent efforts undertaken to leverage the dynamics of engineered systems containing buckled components. The dynamics are shown to be multifaceted and nonlinear, so as to exhibit a broad assortment of motions including dynamic snap-through which is an energetic vibration between the two stable equilibria.

About the Speaker

Ryan L. Harne is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at The Ohio State University where he directs the Laboratory of Sound and Vibration Research. He received BS (2008), MS (2009) and PhD (2012) degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech. From 2012 to 2015, Harne was a research fellow at the University of Michigan. Current research interests include integrating analytical and experimental  investigations in mechanics, dynamics, vibrations and acoustics to elucidate and harness the rich characteristics of nonlinear systems. He is an active  member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound, and Technical Committee on Energy Harvesting. He  received the 2011 Acoustical Society of America Royster Award and 2011 NASA-Virginia Space Grant Consortium Research Fellowship.