Education:

Michigan State University
PhD Mechanical Engineering ’80
MAT Physics ’75

Grand Valley College
BS Physics ’70

Teaching: ^top

AE 215 and AE 579 alternate years

Biography: ^top

Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is the Harm Buning Collegiate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan and former department chair (2011-2018). Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 390 journal papers and 690 proceedings papers, given 72 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 67 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, and works in the area of applying smart structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IIAV, SEM and AAM.

Awards: ^top

HONORS AND AWARDS

• The ASME 2015 Rayleigh Lecture Award, ASME Noise Control and Acoustics Division, August 2015
• The AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Award, January 2014
• Honorary Professorship, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, awarded October 2009
• The 2009 Structural Health Monitoring Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded September 2009
• The 2009 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, Virginia Tech, awarded April 2009
• The Mechanical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award, Michigan State University, awarded May 2008
• The 2008 ASME/Boeing Structural Materials Best Paper Award, awarded April 2008
• The 2007 ASME J. P. Den Hartog Medal, awarded September 2007
• The 2007 ASME Best Paper Award in Structural Dynamics and Control, awarded March 2007
• The 2007 DeMichele Award of the Society for Experimental Mechanics, awarded February 2007
• The “Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship” from the University of Bristol, UK, for visiting during AY 2004-05 and lecturing on smart structures, awarded May 2004
• The SPIE 2003 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award, awarded March 2003
• The 2002 H. C. Pusey Best Paper Award, awarded November 2002
• The 2002 President’s Award for Research Excellence (Virginia Tech), awarded September 2002
• The 2001 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (Virginia Tech), awarded May 2001
• ASME AIAA SDM Best Paper Award, awarded April 2001
• The ASME/Boeing Structural Materials Best Paper Award, awarded April 2000
• ASME 2000 Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize, awarded April 2000
• ASME Distinguished Lecturer, 1995-2004
• Fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace, awarded 2004
• Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, awarded 2002
• Fellow of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV), awarded 1999
• Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, awarded 1997
• Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, awarded 1990
• Fellow of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, awarded 2016
• Presidential Young Investigator, 1984-1989 (awarded by President Ronald Reagan and administered by the National Science Foundation)

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

• National Institute of Aerospace: Fellow
• American Academy of Mechanics: Fellow
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics: Fellow
• International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration: Fellow
• Society of Experimental Mechanics: Fellow
• Society of Engineering Science
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow

Publications: ^top

Lee, A. J., Xie, A. and Inman, D. J., 2020, “Suppression of Cross-Well Oscillations for Bistable Composites Through Potential Well Elimination”, ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, Vol. 142, DOI: 10.1115/1.4046123.

Groo, L., Steinke K, Inman, D. J. and Sodano, H.A. “Vibration Damping Mechanism of Fiber Reinforced Composites with Integrated Piezoelectric Nanowires”, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, accepted November 2019. 1(50), pp.47373-47381

Acosta, K. L., Srivastava, S., Wilkie, W. K., and Inman, D. J., “Primary and Secondary Pyroelectric Effects in Macro-fiber Composites”, Composites Part B: Engineering, 2019, Engineering, 177, p.107275.

Avci, O., Bhargava, A., Nakitas, N. and Inman, D. J., “Vibration Annoyance Assessment of Train Induced Excitations from Tunnels Embedded in Rock”, Science of the Total Environment, 2020 Apr 1;711:134528.

Sales, T. P., Rade, D.A., and Inman, D. J., “A Morphing Metastructure Concept Combining Shape Memory Alloy Wires and Permanent Magnets for Multistable Behavior”, Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, 42, 122 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-020-2202-0

Lee, A. J., and Inman, D. J., 2019, “Electromechanical Modelling of a Bistable Plate with Macro Fiber Composites under Nonlinear Vibrations”, Journal of Vibration and Acoustic, Volume 446, April 2019, Pages 326-342

Abdeljaber, O., Avci, O., Kiranyaz, S., Hussein, M. and Inman, D.J., 2018,”Wireless and Real-Time Structural Damage Detection: A Novel Decentralized Method for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 424, pp.158-172.

Yang, Z., Zhou, S., Zu, J. and Inman, D. J., 2018, “High-Performance Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Their Applications”,  Joule, Vol. 2,  No. 4, pp. 1-56.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2018.03.011

Wang, Y., and. Inman, D. J., 2018,  “Parametric Study of Low Frequency Broadband Rectilinear-to-Rotary Vibrational Energy Harvesting,  Transactions of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

Wei, D., Wang, W., Cao, J., Bowen, C.R., Inman, D.J., and Lin, J “Performance Enhancement of Nonlinear Asymmetric Bistable Energy Harvesting from Harmonic, Random and Human Motion Excitations,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol.112, No. 21. DOI: 10.1063/1.5027555

Lee, A. J. and Inman, D. J., 2018, “Snap-Through Morphing Enabled by Broadband Energy Harvesting,” Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 29, No. 11, pp. 2528-2543.

Huang, W., Zhang, H.; Inman, D. J., Qiu, J., Cesnik, C. E., Ji, H., “Low Reflection Effect by 3D Printed Functionally Graded Acoustic Black Holes” Journal of Sound and Vibration, First published version available online: 28-FEB-2019 DOI 10.1016/j.jsv.2019.02.043

Emam, S.A., Hobeck, J. and Inman, D.J., 2019. Experimental investigation into the nonlinear dynamics of a bistable laminate. Nonlinear Dynamics, pp.1-21.