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ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast

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ASME's Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for dissemination of material across all sub-disciplines of applied mechanics and engineering science, including fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration, and applications. For more information visit www.ASME.org

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United States

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ASME's Applied Mechanics Reviews (AMR) is an international review journal that serves as a premier venue for dissemination of material across all sub-disciplines of applied mechanics and engineering science, including fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration, and applications. For more information visit www.ASME.org

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@asmedotorg

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English


Episodes
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Prof. Kenneth Liechti

12/9/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Ken Liechti of University of Texas at Austin is an award-winning authority on the mechanics of interfaces, describing bonding, unbonding, and crack propagation using innovative experimental techniques with applications to thin film mechanics and graphene transfer. Pipe Major Emeritus of the Silver Thistle Pipes and Drums band out of Austin, Liechti speaks in this interview of his commitment to carrying on the traditions of his Scottish...

Duration:00:44:57

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Prof. Wei Chen

12/2/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Wei Chen of Northwestern University is a pillar of the ASME design automation and design engineering communities and an exceptionally prolific contributor to the science of engineering design since obtaining her PhD in 1995. This AMR audio interview reflects on her long record of professional service, most recently as Editor of the Journal of Mechanical Design, and her perspectives on the power of interdisciplinary collaboration in...

Duration:00:59:46

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Prof. Emeritus Simon Ostrach

11/25/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Recognized by NASA as a giant in heat transfer research, Prof. Simon Ostrach received the inaugural ASME Heat Transfer Division Memorial Award in 1975 and attained membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 for his fundamental discoveries in the field of buoyancy-driven convection. This AMR audio interview paints a remarkable picture of six decades of intellectual leadership and advocacy, including his work as principal...

Duration:00:50:13

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Prof. Rodney Clifton

11/18/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Rodney Clifton is among the pioneers in the development of experimental techniques for characterizing high-strain-rate material response, recognized with membership in the National Academy of Engineering in 1989 and the ASME Timoshenko Medal in 2000. This AMR audio interview tells his story from a modest background in a one-room country school, through his labor on the early construction of Interstate 80 in Nebraska, to research on...

Duration:00:32:43

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Prof. Thomas Hughes

11/11/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Thomas J.R. Hughes is a leading authority in engineering science and applied mechanics, recognized for his ground-breaking contributions to the computer-aided analysis of problems in fluid and solid mechanics. This AMR audio interview explores his experiences at the interfaces between research and design, academia and industry, and innovation and integration, his unique combination of gumption and curiosity, and how a flailing fire hose...

Duration:00:49:45

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Prof. Gábor Stépán

11/4/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Gábor Stépán is the 2015 recipient of the ASME Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award in recognition of his seminal contributions to the analysis of stability of delay-differential equations with application to machine-tool vibrations, robot dynamics and control, wheel shimmy, and human balancing. This AMR audio interview depicts a research and educational career grounded in a love for applied mathematics and a desire for industrial relevance....

Duration:00:43:26

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Prof. Melany Hunt

10/28/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Melany Hunt's research concerns the dynamics of particulate materials in dry or liquid-saturated environments with application to problems in industrial and geophysical processes. This AMR audio interview explores a high-impact career in science and engineering research, education, and administration, including her perspectives on the immersion of students in undergraduate research, innovative use of online course material, and unique...

Duration:00:43:24

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Prof. Julia Greer

10/21/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Julia Greer is a highly accomplished innovator in the area of nanoscale materials science and mechanics whose work has been recognized by the Sia Nemat-Nasser ASME Early Career Award, the Materials, Metals, and Minerals Society Early Career Faculty Award, and the Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal. This AMR audio interview explores her pioneering contributions to the science of architectured hierarchical micro- and...

Duration:00:52:53

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Prof. Igor Mezic

10/14/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Igor Mezic applies advanced methods of nonlinear dynamics and ergodic theory to the study of robust uncertainty management in complex networks and data assimilation in geophysical fluid dynamics. This AMR audio interview describes his path to a career of cutting-edge scientific research and engineering education, including his leadership in university-industry partnerships, his development of large-data diagnostic tools for forecasting...

Duration:00:39:17

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Prof. Edwin Kreuzer

10/7/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Professor Edwin Kreuzer is the President of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg, Germany, and former President of Hamburg University of Technology. This AMR audio interview describes his innovation of computer-aided methods in the analysis of multibody systems, his exploration of the nonlinear dynamics of airship-borne mechanical cranes and underwater robotic vehicles, and his perspectives on the need to train students to make...

Duration:00:46:49

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Prof. Zhigang Suo

9/30/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Zhigang Suo is the recipient of the 2012 William Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. This AMR audio interview describes his pursuit to bring fundamental principles of deformation, fracture, diffusion, and thermodynamics to the creation of cutting-edge knowledge in the modeling and design of polymer gels and lithium-ion batteries, as well as his commitment to...

Duration:00:46:36

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Prof. Katia Bertoldi

9/23/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Katia Bertoldi is the recipient of the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award from ASME and a Journal of Applied Mechanics Paper Award, both in 2014. This AMR audio interview explores her professional development, experiences, and insights as a student and later academic researcher and mentor, and describes her contributions to the accidental and purposeful invention of engineered materials with local structural properties that...

Duration:00:48:08

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Prof. Stuart Antman

9/16/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Stuart Antman has made fundamental contributions to the development and application of methods for analysis of motion and instability of elastic and plastic bodies. This AMR audio interview describes a career of navigating the Timoshenko and Truesdell traditions of solid mechanics, the developing interface between mechanics and advanced mathematics both within the U.S. and internationally, and mentoring students to choose a path of...

Duration:00:37:19

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Prof. Philip Holmes

9/9/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Philip Holmes is an internationally prominent mathematician and engineer whose fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of nonlinear dynamical systems span solid and fluid mechanics, animal locomotion, neuroscience, and cognition. This AMR audio interview describes an unconventional path from writing poetry in the Yorkshire Dales to writing the seminal textbook Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical Systems, and Bifurcations...

Duration:00:47:25

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Dr. Irene Beyerlein

9/2/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Dr. Irene Beyerlein co-directs the Los Alamos Center for Materials at Irradiation and Mechanical Extremes and is a leading international expert on microstructural changes to metals undergoing severe plastic deformation. This AMR audio interview explores her path to a high-impact research career, her passion for the science of material dislocations and fracture, and the influence of role models and mentors. Visit the Applied Mechanics Reviews...

Duration:00:44:49

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Prof. Karl Johan Åström

8/26/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Karl Johan Åström is a pioneer and statesman in the fields of automatic, adaptive, and computer-aided control engineering and system identification, whose fundamental contributions to scholarly and applied research have been uniformly recognized. This AMR audio interview describes his experiences at the interface between academic research and industrial applications, a story of how fortune rewards the bold, and the risks of sending...

Duration:00:56:57

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Prof. Anthony Bloch

8/19/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Anthony Bloch of the University of Michigan is a leading scholar and contributor to the fields of geometric mechanics and control of mechanical systems with symmetry, including as co-author of an influential graduate textbook on nonholonomic mechanics and control. This AMR audio interview features his personal recollections of a wonderful story of fundamental discovery in dynamics and control, scientific friends and collaborators, the...

Duration:00:44:27

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Prof. Joe D. Goddard

8/12/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Joe Goddard of the University of California San Diego is the 2012 recipient of the G.I. Taylor Medal of the Society of Engineering Science, awarded for outstanding research contributions in the mechanics of complex fluids and the thermodynamics and transport properties of physical and biological systems. This AMR audio interview features his personal reflections on an international career at the forefront of applied mechanics research,...

Duration:01:03:58

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Prof. Howard Stone

8/5/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Howard Stone of Princeton University is the recipient of the 2008 G.K. Batchelor Prize, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has authored some 300 journal publications focused on fundamental problems in low-Reynolds number flows, using a combination of theory, computer-based modeling, and experiments. This AMR audio interview features his personal reflections on the...

Duration:01:01:58

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Prof. Markus Buehler

7/29/2019
The Applied Mechanics Reviews Podcast Presents: Prof. Markus Buehler of Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the 2012 recipient of the Society of Engineering Science Young Investigator Medal in recognition of his significant contributions to computational materials science research, including the use of molecular-based multiscale modeling to study the mechanical properties of spider webs. This AMR audio interview features his personal reflections on the integration of research and...

Duration:00:49:19