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Oded Gottlieb



eMail: oded@technion.ac.il
Phone: +972-4-829-3158
Room: 346, LD

Associate Professor

Education

  • 1983 - B.Sc., Civil Engineering, Technion - I.I.T.
  • 1987 - M.Sc., Civil Engineering, Technion - I.I.T.
  • 1991 - Ph.D., Ocean Engineering, minor in Applied Mathematics, Oregon State University

Research Interests

  • Nonlinear and chaotic dynamical systems, global bifurcations, complexity and spatio-temporal instabilities in continuum mechanics (strings/shells/beams/elastica).
  • Stability and control of nonlinear microbeams for scanning probe microscopy (SPM), modelling and estimation of mechanical properties from nonlinear dynamical experiments in nano- and micro- electromechanical systems (NEMS/MEMS).
  • Fluid-structure interaction, spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (SOE) and irregular self-excited oscillations of the cochlea, vortex-induced vibration (VIV), application of bifurcation theory to ocean engineering systems.

Guest Appointments

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Parsons Lab, (1992-93).
  • University of Michigan, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (1996, 1997, 1998).
  • Technical University - Darmstadt, Dept. of Applied Mechanics (1999).
  • University of Roma La Sapienza, Dept. of Engineering Structures (2000).
  • Stanford University, Mechanics and Computation Div. (2002).

Industrial Experience

  • Research and diving engineer, Coastal and Marine Engineering Research Institute, Israel (1983-86)

Membership in Professional Societies

  • ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineering
  • ISTAM - Israel Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Honors and Awards

  • AIAA Student Paper Award in Structural Dynamics (SDM, Baltimore, 1991).
  • Elected to Phi-Kappa-Phi (OSU, 1991).
  • DAAD Award for Research Visit in Germany (1999).
  • Technion Award for Innovative Interdisciplinary Research (1999).

Publications

  • O. Gottlieb, "Bifurcations and routes to chaos in wave-structure interaction systems", AIAA J. Guidance, Control and Dynamics, 15, 832-839, (1992).
  • A. Yarin, O. Gottlieb, and I.V. Roisman, "Chaotic rotation of small particles shaped as triaxial ellipsoids in simple shear flow", J. Fluid Mechanics, 340, 83-100, (1997).
  • O. Gottlieb, "Bifurcations of a nonlinear small-body ocean mooring system excited by finite amplitude waves", ASME J. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 119, 234-238 (1997).
  • U. Kligerman, and O. Gottlieb, "Dynamics of a rotating system with a nonlinear eddy-current damper", ASME J. Vibration and Acoustics, 120, 848-853, (1998).
  • O. Gottlieb and N.C. Perkins, "Local and global bifurcation analyses of a spatial cable elastica", ASME J. Applied Mechanics, 66, 352-360, (1999).
  • M.J. Leamy and O. Gottlieb, "Internal resonances in whirling strings involving longitudinal dynamics and material nonlinearities", J. Sound and Vibration, 236, 683-703, (2000).
  • M.J. Leamy and O. Gottlieb, "Nonlinear dynamics of a taut string with material nonlinearities", ASME J.Vibration & Acoustics, 120, 848-853 (2001).
  • O. Gottlieb, G. Rega, and W. Lacarabonara, "Modeling and analysis of smart localized structural elements for nonlinear vibration control of a taut string", SPIE 9th International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials, V.S. Rao (ed), 4693, 1-11, (2002).
  • K. Wolf and O. Gottlieb, "Nonlinear dynamics of a noncontacting atomic force microscope cantilever actuated by a piezoelectric layer", J. Applied Physics, 91, 4701-4709, (2002).
  • O. Gottlieb and A. Oron, "Stability and bifurcations of parameterically excited thin liquid film", Int. J. of bifurcation and Chaos, 14, 4117-4141, (2004).
  • O. Gottlieb and A.R. Champneys, "Global bifurcations of nonlinear thermoelastic microbeams subject to electrodynamic actuation", in IUTAM Symp. on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems and Processes in Mechanics, G. Rega and F. Vestroni (eds), 117-126, (2005).
  • Hornstein, S. and Gottlieb, O., Nonlinear dynamics, stability and control of the scan process in noncontacting atomic force microscopy, Nonlinear Dynamics, 54, 93-122, 2008.
  • Kleiman, A. and Gottlieb, O., Nonlinear Dynamics and internal resonances of a ship with a rectangular cross-section in head seas, J. Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 131, 041301, 1-12, 2009.
  • Gutschmidt, S. and Gottlieb, O. Bifurcations and loss of orbital stability in nonlinear viscoelastic beam arrays subject to parametric excitation, J. Sound and Vibration, 329, 3835-3855, 2010.
  • Gottlieb O., and Cohen A., Self-excited oscillations of a string on an elastic foundation subject to a nonlinear feed-forward force, Int. J. Mechanical Sciences, 52, 1535-1545, 2010.