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Brian P Mann, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Education:: D.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Washington University - St. Louis, 2003; MS Mechanical Engineering, Washington University - St. Louis, 1999; BS Mechanical Engineering, University of Missouri - Columbia, 1996

Research Interests: Nonlinear science, vibration, energy harvesting, machining dynamics, dynamic nanoindentation: Current projects: NSF CAREER Award, NSF Fundamental Nonlinear Dynamics of Nanoindentation, ONR YIP: Broadband energy harvesting in varied and uncertain environments; Nonlinear dynamics and vibration utilizing analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques. Fundamental investigations of phenomenon and application areas where dynamical systems theory plays an important role.

Areas of Interest:: Nonlinear vibration
Nonlinear dynamics
Chaos
Vibration
Energy harvesting
Chatter
Machining dynamics

Specialties:: Structural Engineering
Chaos, Dynamics
Nonlinear Dynamics
Adaptive Structures
Vibration
Alternative Energy
Nonlinear Systems
Manufacturing

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Defense Manufacturing Technology Achievement Award, DOD Mantech, November, 2007
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow (NDSEG), ASEE, 2001-2003
NSF CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2004-2009
Dean's Advisory Fellow Council Award, University of Missouri, August, 2007
Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award for excellence in teaching, Society of Automotive Engineers, January, 2007
Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Missouri, November, 2006

Teaching (Fall 2012):

Recent Publications (More Publications)

Butcher, Eric A. and Mann, Brian P., Analytic Bounds for Instability Regions in Periodic Systems With Delay via Meissner's Equation, JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND NONLINEAR DYNAMICS, vol. 7 no. 1 (January, 2012) [doi] [abs].
Dunnmon, J. A. and Stanton, S. C. and Mann, B. P. and Dowell, E. H., Power extraction from aeroelastic limit cycle oscillations, JOURNAL OF FLUIDS AND STRUCTURES, vol. 27 no. 8 (November, 2011), pp. 1182-1198 [doi] [abs].
Khasawneh, Firas A. and Mann, Brian P., Stability of delay integro-differential equations using a spectral element method, MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER MODELLING, vol. 54 no. 9-10 (November, 2011), pp. 2493-2503 [doi] [abs].
Khasawneh, Firas A. and Mann, Brian P., A spectral element approach for the stability of delay systems, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, vol. 87 no. 6 (August, 2011), pp. 566-592 [doi] [abs].
Mann, B. P. and Khasawneh, F. A. and Fales, R., Using information to generate derivative coordinates from noisy time series, COMMUNICATIONS IN NONLINEAR SCIENCE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION, vol. 16 no. 8 (August, 2011), pp. 2999-3004 [doi] [abs].

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