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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT
Structural Acoustics and Vibration
The wide range of structural acoustics and vibration applica- tions and objectives discussed above provide for a rich field of active research over a broad spectrum of industry, aca- demia, and government. This range of applications, along with the diversity of backgrounds for investigators of struc- tural acoustics and vibration, is a testament to the broad and truly multidisciplinary nature of the field.
Biosketches
Robert M. Koch is the US Navy’s Chief Research Scientist for research in acous- tic/nonacoustic stealth, signature control, and silencing of tactical-scale undersea vehicles and systems. He is also an Ad- junct Professor of Engineering at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, and a
licensed Professional Mechanical Engineer. Dr. Koch is an Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Fellow and current chair of the ASA Structural Acoustics and Vibration Tech- nical Committee. His current research interests include advanced computational methods for large-scale, physics- based structural acoustics analysis of coupled fluid/structure interaction systems, transient dynamic high-energy shock events, and autonomous unmanned and supercavitating high-speed undersea vehicles.
Christina Naify is a Materials Engineer at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC. She has been active- ly involved in the Acoustical Society of America for eight years and has served as a member on the Structural Acoustic Tech- nical Committee as well as on the Women
in Acoustics and the Tutorial Lectures Committees within the Society. Dr. Naify received a BS in mechanical engineer- ing from the University of California, Berkeley, and a MS and PhD in materials science from the University of South- ern California. Current research interests focus on acoustic metamaterials for both air and water environments.
References
Barre, S., and Benzeggagh, M. L. (1994). On the use of acoustic emission to investigate damage mechanisms in glass-fiber-reinforced polypropylene. Composites Science and Technology 52, 369-376.
Duroux, A., Sabra, K. G., Ayres, J., and Ruzzene, M. (2010). Extracting guid- ed waves from cross-correlations of elastic diffuse fields: Applications to remote structural health monitoring. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 127, 204-215.
Foti, S., Lai, C. G., Rix, G. J., and Strobbia, C. (2015). Surface Wave Methods for Near-Surface Site Characterization. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL.
Haberman, M. R., and Guild, M. D. (2016). Acoustic metamaterials. Physics Today 69, 42.
Norris, A. N. (2015). Acoustic cloaking. Acoustics Today 11(1), 38-46.
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