Area of interest in:

NONLINEAR MECHANICS AND ADAPTIVE DYNAMIC SYSTEMS

 This is an interdisciplinary interest area with a special focus on:

• non-linear aspects of behavior of natural and engineered materials (Dolbow http://www.duke.edu/~jdolbow/ , http://www.cee.duke.edu/news/?id=920, Hueckel, Nadeau http://www.cee.duke.edu/faculty/nadeau/index.php , Gavin http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/, Scruggs)
• computational aspects of contact mechanics (Laursen http://www.duke.edu/~laursen/),
• chemo-mechanics of materials and multi-phase contact (Hueckel, http://www.duke.edu/~hueckel)
• loss of stability of dynamical systems and chaos (Virgin http://nonlineardynamics.pratt.duke.edu/ ), structural failure, fracture mechanics (Petroski http://www.cee.duke.edu/faculty/petroski/index.php ) and loss of stability of non-linear behavior of materials (Hueckel )
• applications of nonlinear dynamical systems theory to problems of practical engineering importance (Virgin http://nonlineardynamics.pratt.duke.edu/)
• mechatronics (Scruggs http://www.cee.duke.edu/faculty/scruggs/index.php )
• structural control (Gavin, Scruggs and Virgin), and related applications of controllable materials, especially the use of electrorheological and magnetorheological dampers for structural vibration suppression (Gavin http://www.duke.edu/~hpgavin/)