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| Robert E. Kielb, Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Professor of the Practice Emeritus in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | 179 Hudson Hall | | Office Phone: | (919) 660-5327 | | Email Address: |   | - Education:
| PhD | Ohio State University | 1981 |
| MS | Ohio State University | 1975 |
| BS | Purdue University | 1971 |
- Specialties:
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Aerodynamics
Structural Engineering
Aeroelasticity
Vibration
Design
- Research Interests: Turbomachinery Aeroelasticity
Conducts research and supervises graduate students in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, mistuning, damping, and probabilistic methods. Principal investigator on AFOSR, DARPA, NASA, and Industrial funded research projects. Provides consultion services to turbine engine companies, including most major companies. Teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering with emphasis on vibration and design.
- Keywords:
- turbomachinery • aeroelasticity • aeromechanics • vibration
- Recent Publications
- R. Kielb and J. Barter and O. Chernycheva and T. Fransson, Flutter of low pressure turbine blades with cyclic symmetric modes: A preliminary design method,
Journal Of Turbomachinery-transactions Of The Asme, vol. 126 no. 2
(April, 2004),
pp. 306 -- 309, ISSN 0889-504X [abs]
- V. Ramamurti and R. Kielb, Natural frequencies of twisted rotating plates,
Journal Of Sound And Vibration, vol. 97 no. 3
(1984),
pp. 429 -- 449, ISSN 0022-460X
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