AE Seminar
"Material State Awareness at the Intersection of Material Multifunctionality, Embedded Sensing, and Inverse Problems"
featuring
Tyler Tallman
Associate Professor | School of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Purdue University
Thursday, January 30
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Guggenheim 442
About the Seminar:
Understanding the condition of a material is important in diverse applications such as aerospace nondestructive evaluation (NDE), process monitoring, materials testing, and biomedicine. However, existent sensing technology is often inadequate for minimally invasive in-situ monitoring, especially regarding next-generation aerospace concepts. This presentation will summarize Dr. Tallman's efforts to achieve material state awareness (i.e., knowledge of full-field material condition) via a combination of material multifunctionality, embedded sensing, and inverse problems. That is, we model and characterize the self-sensing properties of materials, non-invasively measure their responses, and then formulate an inverse problem to quantitatively deduce material condition. These concepts are validated on a variety of current and next-generation materials for NDE, manufacturing monitoring, biomedical, extreme materials testing, and dynamics/vibrations applications.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Tyler N. Tallman is an Associate Professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. He earned BS degrees in physics and engineering mechanics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin, respectively, in 2010. He earned his MS in 2012 and PhD in 2015, both in mechanical engineering and from the University of Michigan. Dr. Tallman's research interests exist at the intersection of multifunctional materials, embedded sensing, and inverse problems, areas in which he has authored or co-authored over 100 combined journal papers, conference proceedings, abstracts, and patents. His research contributions have been recognized by winning the AFOSR YIP Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and several best paper awards from ASME in addition to serving as an associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. Dr. Tallman is also a passionate educator. He has won the Elmer F. Bruhn and W. A. Gustafson teaching awards from the Purdue University School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Faculty Excellence Award for Early Career Teaching from the Purdue University College of Engineering.