Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 2018

locally weakened interfaces in adhesive joints" International Journal of Adhesion and Adhe- sives 82 (2018). Ben-Tzvi talks, service Associate Professor Pinhas Ben-Tzvi will give a research presentation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Insti- Ben-Tzvi tute of Technology in March. His talk will be on "Novel Field Robots and Robotic Exoskeletons: Design, Integration and Applications." Ben-Tzvi also provided the keynote lecture at the 2018 International Conference on Mechatronics Systems and Control Engineer- ing in February. His address was on "Recent Trends on Modeling and Integration of Novel Field Robots and Robotic Exoskeletons and Their Applications." Ben-Tzvi was recently selected as Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine; and associate editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society's conference editorial board for the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Along with doctoral students Anil Kumar, Wael Saab, and Hailin Ren, Ben-Tzvi pre- sented three papers at ASME 2017 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference as well as serving as session co-chair, and chair for workshops, tutorials, and special sessions at the conference. The presented papers included: Obstacle Identification for Vision Assisted Control Architecture of a Hybrid Mechanism Mobile Robot; Maneuverability and Heading Control of a Quadruped Robot Utilizing Tail Dynam- ics; and An Inertial Sensor to Measure Wind Turbulence with RC Helicopters. Tian in Nano Letters Assistant Professor Zhiting Tian was published in Nano Letters in December. "Significantly High Thermal Rectification in an Tian Asymmetric Polymer Molecule Driven by Diffusive versus Ballis- tic Transport" is available by clicking the link. Williams webinar, publications Associate Professor Chris Wil- liams, John R. Jones III Faculty Fellow, hosted a TA Instruments webinar with Tim Long, director of the Virginia Tech Macromole- cules Interfaces Institute, "Design- Williams ing New Materials for Additive Manufacturing: Vat Photopolymerization." Williams was also an author on: "Insights into the mechanical properties of several triply periodic minimal surface lattice structures made by polymer additive manufacturing" Polymer; and "Model analysis of feedstock be- havior in fused filament fabrication: Enabling rapid materials screening" Polymer. Acar in Florida and AIAA Journal Assistant Professor Pinar Acar has two journal papers in AIAA Journal: "Multi-Scale Optimi- zation of Nanocomposites with Probabilistic Feature Descriptors" and "Data Sampling Schemes for Microstructure Design with Vibrational Tuning Constraints." Acar Acar presented two papers at AIAA SciTech Conference in Florida in January: "Replacing Microstructural Experiments with Recon- struction Algorithms: Do Epistemic Uncer- tainties Allow?" and "Multi-Scale Optimiza- tion of Nanocomposites with Probabilistic Feature Descriptors." MOMENTUM SPRING 2018 PAGE 7

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