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Vibration testing of a football helmet

Dear All

please find a link to a story describing the results of a final project that I assigned for my graduate "Experimental Structural Dynamics" class. This is timely, on this Superbowl Sunday and the broad coverage of safety issues related to Football and head injuries.

http://coe.gatech.edu/content/tech-research-holds-key-better-football-he...

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Journal Club Theme of December 2012: Metamaterials Inspired Concepts for Elastic Wave Energy Harvesting

Recent journal club posts have illustrated the interesting and unique dynamic properties of phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials (see April and May journal club entries by M. Hussein and A. Spadoni respectively). The ability of this class of engineered materials and structures to guide and focus elastic and sound waves can be exploited in a number of new applications and exciting functionalities.

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Short Course on Wave Propagation in Periodic Linear and Nonlinear Media

Short Course on

Wave Propagation in Periodic Linear and Nonlinear Media

will be held at CISM, in Udine Italy (June 21-25, 2010). See course brochure attached

Massimo Ruzzene

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