Current Ph.D. Students

Mr. M. Bayon de Noyer

Expected 1999

Proposed Ph.D. Thesis: Tail Buffet Alleviation of High Performance Twin Tail Aircraft using Offset Piezoceramic Stack Actuators and Acceleration Feedback Control

Ms. Wahyu Lestari

Expected 2000

Mr. R. Roglin

Expected 1999

Mr. S. Kulkarni

Expected 2000

Ms. X. Lu

Expected 2001

Mr. P. Roberts

Ph.D. Students Supervised at Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. D. Steadman

1998

co-advised with Dr. Kardomateas
Delta Airlines, Atlanta, Georgia

Dr. H. Luo

1996

General Electric Laboratories, Scanecteti, New York

Ph.D. Thesis: Damage Detection and Health Monitoring of Sructures using Dynamic Response and Neural Network Techniques

Dr. S. Griffin

1996

Phillips Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ph.D. Thesis: Acoustic Replication in Smart Structures using Active Structural/Acoustic Control

Dr. J. Zhang

1994

Soft Ware Engineer, Atlanta, Georgia

Ph.D. Thesis: Identification of nonlinear structural dynamical system

Dr. N.L. Gummadi

1993

Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, Ohio

Ph.D. Thesis: Active control of delaminations in smart composite structures

Dr. S. Sarkar

1992

Aero Tech Corporation, Arlington, Virginia

Ph.D. Thesis: Recursive formulations of multibody systems in open loop configuration

Dr. E.K. Hall

1992

Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California

Ph.D. Thesis: A study of slender beams: finite deformations, chaotic vibrations, and active control

Dr. X. Zhao

1991

Detroit, Michigan

Ph.D. Thesis: The design and control of uncertain manipulator arms with decoupled inertia matrix

Dr.C.C. Won

1990

NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

Ph.D. Thesis: Active control of smart structure : theory and experiment

Dr. Y. Yillikci

1989

Associate Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ph.D. Thesis: Finite difference techniques and rotor blade aeroelastic partial differential equations with quasisteady aerodynamics

Dr. R. Chander

1988

Washington DC

Ph.D. Thesis: Identification of distributed parameter systems with damping

Dr. P. Sriram

1988

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Ph.D. Thesis: Whole field optical methods for structural mechanics : digital speckle correlation and laser Doppler velocimetry

Dr. B.J Glass

1988

NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California

Ph.D. Thesis: Identification and control of time-varying flexible structures : an artificial intelligence approach

Dr. Y.P. Cheng

1987

Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan

Ph.D. Thesis: Frequency domain identification of structural dynamic systems with general damping matrices

Dr. M. Obal

1986

Retired, U.S. Air Force
President, Obal Technologies, Washington DC

Ph.D. Thesis: Vibration control of flexible structures using piezoelectric devices as sensors and actuators

Dr. N.S. Abhyankar

1987

Phillips Laboratory, U.S. Air Force, Albuquerque

Ph.D. Thesis: Studies in nonlinear structural dynamics: chaotic behavior and poynting effect

Dr. A Chattopadhyay

1984

Professor, Arizona State University, Phoenix, Arizona

Ph.D. Thesis: Optimization of vibrating beams including the effects of coupled bending and torsional modes

Dr. H.P. Chen

1984

Professor, California State University, Long Beach, California

Ph.D. Thesis: A new second order accurate finite difference method for dynamic response of elastic-plastic finite deformation problems

Dr. S. Chandrashekhara

1983

Ad Tech Corporation, San Diego, California

Ph.D. Thesis: Free vibration analysis of layered plates and composites by a mixed method : state space approach

Dr. R.G. Clinton

1983

NASA Huntsville, Alabama

Ph.D. Thesis: Acoustic emission analysis of woven graphite-epoxy composite materials

Dr. R.L. Latham

1982

School of Aerospace Engineering & College of Engineering, Georgia Tech

Ph.D. Thesis: Interaction of stress waves and cracks using a second order accurate finite difference method

Dr. M. Meyyappa

1981

co-advised with Dr. Craig
Boeing Helicopters, Tempe, Arizona

Dr. K. Ghosh

1981

Lucent Technology, Orange, New Jersey

Ph.D. Thesis: Coupled fluid structure interaction problems; the case of an elastic-plastic shell and an acoustic fluid

Dr. B. Uppaluri

1978

Senior Engineer, Bell Helicopters, Texas

Ph.D. Thesis: A stochastic model for fatigue and optimum design and maintenance methodologies

Dr. J.M. Thomas

1974

Retired Vice President, Failure Analysis Associates, Menlo Park, California

Ph.D. Thesis: Reliability-based econometrics of aerospace structural systems: design criteria and test options