Seminar | Mechanical Engineering Faculty

Predicting Human Motion in Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks using Learning Methods

Advances in electrochemical systems which combine energy storage and conversion with water desalination

Feedback-based topological mechanical metamaterials – designing unconventional wave propagation in real-time

Vignettes from Bio-Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems

Piezoelectric Actuators and Vibrating Energy Harvesters

Manufacturing engineered materials with ultrasound directed self-assembly

Active Matter: ‘active thermodynamics’ and the dynamics of biopolymer gels

Novel Applications of Exceptional Points in Optical, Atomic, and Mechanical Systems

Irreversible physio-mechanical processes and collagen rearrangements in stretched fetal membranes

Edge Dislocation Motion in Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Au

The Effective Mass of Partial Dislocations in Cu

Micro-Photonics and Nano-Mechanics with Liquids, Gasses, and Plasma

Caging via Minimalistic Robotic Grasping Systems

Experimental fluid mechanics research: What’s new at the EMPFL?

The Mechanical Response of Additively Manufactured Ti6Al4V Specimens Containing Discrete Artificial Voids

A General Model for Relations between Material Properties and Barriers for Twin Boundary Motion

High-throughput experimental techniques to measure the CRSS for slip and twinning in Mg and Mg alloys

Liquid-Mirror Resonator

Accelerating oscillatory fronts in a chain with nonlocal interactions: effect of linear spectrum

Crack-flaw interactions in fracture under dynamic loading

Minimally Invasive, Motion Preserving Artificial Spinal Intervertebral Disc

Reconciling mechanical and thermomechanical dislocation-based constitutive models

Microscale flow confinement on surfaces using pressure- and electric- actuation

Unraveling Damage Processes at the Microstructure

Optimal control, optimization and asymptotic analysis of simple microswimmer models

Dimensions Extraction from 3D Scanned Hand Model for Prosthesis Design using Deep-Learning Methods

Nonholonomic dynamics of the Twistcar vehicle: asymptotic analysis and hybrid dynamics of frictional skidding

Tailoring nonlinearity for advanced engineering design

Neuro-inspired control and Neuro-engineering

Chaotic dynamics and “decision making” in individual chemically active microdrops

Stabilization of High-Order Flux-Reconstruction Scheme for Wall-Modeled Implicit Large Eddy Simulation

Autoresonance and Modal Filtering for Fast-Sensing and Actuation

High-fidelity low-Mach number simulations of reacting flows using accelerated chemistry

Electrochemical characterization of the transient response of a microchannel-nanoslot fluidic devices

Unorthodox Inertial Navigation and Sensor Fusion

Some issues in fracture mechanics of rubber-like and soft materials

Million times around a microsphere

Classification, Segmentation, and Geometric Analysis of 3D Point Clouds using Deep Learning

Innovation, Quality and in between

Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Arc Plasma Wind Tunnels

Planning and control for low-cost robotic manufacturing

Generating an Ideal light source

Modeling and Analysis of Biomechanical Interfaces

Assessment of immersed boundary methods for large eddy simulations of thermal-hydraulic turbulent flows

Creating Complex Deformation Patterns and Increasing Effective Rigidity of Elastic Plates and Beams via Viscous Flows in Complex Internal Channel Networks

Parametrically excited mechanisms for selective detection, identification and actuation in distributed systems

Elastic-plastic contact of coated rough surfaces

Ductile fracture under complex loading scenarios

Stretch-induced accelerated growth in the sensory nervous system

Heat transfer and flow field measurements of a pulsating round jet impinging on a flat heated surface

Exploiting the Somatosensory System with Smart Wearable Devices for the Treatment of Musculoskeletal Joint Pathology

Waves and Networks

Malleable matter: Designing disordered metamaterials by natural aging

Multidimensional topography sensing for frequency modulated AFM

On application of fractals to tribology

Nonlinear Resonance in strongly damped systems

Plantar Pressure and Center of Pressure Curve alterations due to Running Induced Fatigue

Get in Shape: Cell Shape Is an Independent Repository of Retrievable Information

Complexity and performance of mechanical systems

Examination by Tests of the Safety Factor in Solid Propellant Grain Under Ignition Pressure

Aerodynamic Factors Associated with Rebreathing in Infants

Physics-based modeling of pressure-driven and current-driven water desalination

Fractographic Image Analysis Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Methods

Light and Capillary Waves Propagation in Water Fibers and Tunable Tweezer controlled Microresonators

On the band gap universality of multiphase laminates and its applications

Design Optimization of pediatric Viscous Impeller Pump by Applying Computational Fluid Dynamics

An Info-Gap Approach to Crack Tip Plastic Zone Shapes

The New Wave in Robot Grasping

Dynamics of railway cargo cars

Fuel reforming for improvement of propulsion efficiency and emissions mitigation

Measurement of the dynamics of inertial, heavy fibers in isotropic turbulence

The mechanical behavior of a 2-D lattice of bistable elements

Mechanics of macromolecules with bistable domains undergoing hard-soft transitions

Bio-inspired CPG controllers for walking bipedal robots

Tomographic PIV measurements of the flow field in the wake of a tethered sphere undergoing vortex induced vibrations

Jamming and Geometry in Epithelial Biology

On-chip separation and focusing using isotachophoresis with large-volume processing and analyte encapsulation

TOPOLOGICAL PUMPING IN A MAGNETO-MECHANICAL SYSTEM

Non-reciprocity in waveguides with essentially nonlinear coupling

The influence of confining stress on the ballistic properties of soda lime glass

Escape of dynamical system with multiple degrees of freedom from classical potential well

High Conductivity Dual Operation Mode Flow Electrode Towards next-generation energy storage devices

Interfacial Flows Described by Reduced Models

INVESTIGATION OF INTERSTITIAL FLUID FLOW OF ALVEOLAR PRIMARY SEPTA AFTER PNEUMONECTOMY

Balancing Flexible Rotors at Low Speed Using Parametric Excitation

Microscale Flow Patterning by Dynamic Modulation of Surface Charge

Surface waves in elastic layers of finite thickness, and their relation to mode ordering in resonating disk gyros

On the Prediction of Diapycnal Mixing in Stably Stratified Turbulence

Endo-Atmospheric Vector Guidance

Quasicrystalline multilayered metamaterials: negative refraction and self-similarity of the Bloch-Floquet spectrum

Performance and nanoparticle emissions of a diesel engine fed with dimethyl-ether

Spectrally Interleaved Geometric Phase Metasurfaces

Quantum entanglement of the spin and orbital angular momentum of photons using metamaterials

Non-Newtonian Flows in Annular Shock-Absorbers

Dynamics of the 2D oscillator with internal rotatory attachment: effect of geometric nonlinearity

Research in reduction of vibroacoustic vibration on a payload in an airborne body

Photo-Luminescence and Thermal Devices for Solar Energy Harvesting

External phase shifting tuning mechanism in a miniature-pulse tube cryocooler using a semi-active electromagnetic damping system

Time resolved PIV measurements of the vortex shedding characteristics of stationary rough and smooth spheres in a uniform flow

Modelling ElastoHydrodynamic Interactions with application to soft robotics, geophysics and biomechanics

Dynamics of the damped and parametrically driven oscillatory models: Effect of essentially nonlinear coupling

Nonlinear dynamics of discrete mechanical systems with flat dispersion bands

Laser-induced graphene fabricated on porous polyethersulfone membranes as electrically active antifouling and antimicrobial filters

Electrokinetics on paper-based microfluidic devices: development of low-cost and highly sensitive biomolecular diagnostics

Thermocapillary flow actuation and control

Experimental investigation of Austenite-Martensite phase boundary motion in shape memory alloys

INVESTIGATING MOTOR ADAPTATION TO UNSTABLE SHOE DESIGNS THROUGH GAIT BIOMECHANICS AND THE DYNAMICS OF THE CORTICOSPINAL CONTROL

Barriers, mechanisms of motion, and kinetic laws for twin wall dynamics in ferroic materials

Photonic spin-controlled metasurfaces

On-Line Evasive Navigation of an Autonomous Robot in a Planar Unknown Environment

Liquid/liquid interfaces under electric fields

3D-Printable Soft Robotics

Effect of Hygrothermal Conditions on Strength of Phenolic Composite

Aerosol Exposure, Bioaerosol Inactivation and Respiratory Protection

Auto Resonance Based Identification of Natural Frequencies in Rotating Systems

Measuring the viscoelastic characteristics of a single interface in bio-composite materials via micro-cantilever deformations

Nanofluidics: observed phenomena, (tentative) explanations and applications

Some results on the mechanical properties of inverse freezing gels

Acoustic Levitation – Implementation, Control and Analysis

Void growth in heavily deformed metals – the effect of local gradients

Acoustically levitated bearing system and a nonlinear amplifier concept

Analysis of the hybrid dynamics of a planar rigid body with two frictional contacts near an equilibrium state

CFD Modeling of a Direct Injection Hydrogen/DME Fueled Internal Combustion Engine

Electroencephalographic Responses during a Motor Task with Healthy and Stroke Patients

Variable Compression Ratio Engines – recent development experience and trends

Developing two-chamber reactor for gasification of biomass, organic waste and poor fossil fuels

Enhanced cooling of electronic chips using a combined diamond coating and microfluidics

A Size-dependent Coupled Longitudinal-Transverse Vibration of Nanowires in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Dynamics of Solid-Fluid Composite Structures and Actuators

Application of Hyper-Dual Numbers to the Equations of Motion

Design and Analysis of the Dynamics of a Propelling Mechanism, Based on Waves Shell in a Medical Syringe

Kinematics with Applications in Robotics and Biomechanics-Gait Analysis

The influence of microstructure on the static and dynamic strength of transparent Magnesium Aluminate Spinel (MgAl2O4)

The exact solution of the 3D vortex compressible Euler equation and Clay Millennium Prize Problem generalization

Optimization of Control Laws of Dynamic Walking Robots through Region of Attraction

Machine Learning Tools Facilitate the Tuning of Networks of Matsuoka Oscillators for Controlling Bipedal Walking

Modeling reverse flow dynamic stall for high advance ratio rotorcraft

Nonlinear Dynamics and Autonomous Stabilization of a Multi-Tethered Spherical Aerostat in Severe Environmental Conditions

Novel structures and tunings of optimal modified Dead Time Compensators for low order time delay stable/unstable systems

Relations Between Material Properties and Barriers for Twin Wall Motion in Ferroic Materials

Effect of shot-peening mechano-chemical surface treatment parameters on friction reduction

Dynamics and instabilities of an arbitrarily clamped elastic sheet in potential flow with application to shape-morphing airfoils

CORRELATING FRACTURE SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND FRACTURE TOUGHNESS UNDER VARYING LOADING RATES

Theoretical analysis of wheeled three-link snake robot: singularities of nonholonomic constraints and stick-slip hybrid dynamics

Experimental investigation of Mechano -Chemical Surface Treatment for friction reduction in reciprocal motion

Development of nonlinear oscillations in a single mode panel flutter

Escape of a forced-damped particle from a potential well: transient response

Elastic-mediated mechanical communication between cells

Impact Time in Vector Guidance

The Influence of loading conditions, strain hardening, damage evolution and material stress state on the interaction between voids in ductile materials under mode I loading

Measuring Simplicity in Mechanical Design

Thermo-mechanical Characterization and Dynamic Failure of Metals

Assessment of Saint-Venant Principle in Soft Biological Tissues

EBW and LBW of Additive Manufactured Ti6Al4V Products

A Laboratory Platform for Dynamic investigation, Simulation and Validation of High-Speed Rotors

Adaptive Control of Networks of Robotic Manipulators

Israel Pollak Distinguished Lecture Series 2018 Prof. Jim Hall, Preparing for Catastrophe: Climate-resilient infrastructure systems

Revealing the mechanobiological and biomechanical nature of obesity

Hydrodynamics of high-performance marine vessels

MAGNETO-MECHANICAL TOPOLOGICAL LEGO

Interference of lattice waves in transport and storage of thermal energy in low-dimensional metamaterials of atomic scale

The kernel wave perspective: from geophysics to engineering

STATIC AND DYNAMIC MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED DISCRETE PATTERNS OF Ti6Al4V

Beyond Stokes’ law – motion of a sphere in a viscous fluid

Analytical and semi-analytical approaches applied to the nonlinear mechanical behavior of 3-D structures

Experimental slowing of flexural waves in dielectric elastomer films by voltage

Engine Waste Heat Recovery through High-Pressure Methanol Steam Reforming

Leveraging Human Motor Control Principles for Translational Applications

Nonlinear dynamics of carbon nanotubes (CNTs)

Control of ultra-fast autonomous vehicles in dense urban areas

Mechanobiology of Post Traumatic Knee Osteoarthritis

Dynamics of viscous thin films interacting with slender elastic media

Cardiac cell response to action-potential-phase-dependent load

Slung loads at wind tunnel connected to an unfixed joint

FORD vision on future of vehicle propulsion

Mechanical reliability of dental implants

Rational Approximation of Distributed-Delay Control Laws via Moment-Matching

Dynamic Spectral Response

Gaseous viscous peeling of linearly elastic substrates

Deformation of Single- and Bi-Crystalline Au Nanowires

Photonic Hyperfine-Structure induced by a Lab Levitating in Air

Numerical simulations of compressible multicomponent and mulitphase flow using a high-order Targeted ENO (TENO) finite-volume method

Optical Rashba Effect in Geometric Phase Metasurfaces

Dynamics of Liquid-filled Column and Truss Structure

Optimization of a nocturnal radiative cooling system for small scale industrial facilities

Pulse Tube Cryocoolers Driven by Piezoelectric Devices

Implementation and Reinforcement Learning of a Gait Controller on a Mono Pedal Robot

HCCI Combustion in a Wankel Type Internal Combustion Engine

Numerical modeling of dental implant-bone interface

Stress-driven grain boundary motion and grain rotation

Multiscale Simulation of 2D Heterostructures: Incommensurate to Commensurate Transformations in Twisted Graphene Bilayers

Dynamics of Essentially Nonlinear Mechanical Metamaterials

Optimal load distribution for maximal sensitivity of local stiffness variations

A multiscale language for dislocation microstructure for data-driven materials science

A novel SMA-based experimental system for applying a rectangular stress pulse at the sub-ms time scale

Constitutive model for describing the mechanical behavior of glassy polymer

Development of flow electrochemical systems for energy storage and water desalination

Analysis of the 3 dimensional temperature field around cryoprobes inserted into a malignant tumor

Morphological and Structural Control during Continuous Nanofiber Nanomanufacturing for Superior Mechanical Properties

New Investigations of Marangoni-Flow-Driven Self-Propulsion

Isotachophoretic assays for enhanced biomolecular analysis

Ductile fracture at the microscale

Towards Automated and Data-driven Optimized Design of Patient-Specific Biomechanical Interfaces

Strain Intermittency in Shape memory Alloys

Recent Advances in Unsteady Low-Speed Experimental Aerodynamics

Acoustic levitation and propulsion of silicon wafers: accurate positioning and traveling wave based transportation

50 years of innovative energy conservation design

Robot motion planning for multi-agent collaboration in shared workspace

Knock phenomenon in UAV spark-ignition engines and mitigation strategies

Cavity Optocapillaries

Multi-scale Dynamics of Twinning in Ferroic Materials

External Orthopedic Device for Foot Drop disease

Electrokinetic actuation of active colloids

The effect of size and temperature on the nanoindentation

Mechanics and Chemistry in Designing Polymers

Seeking simple models for multilegged locomotion: hybrid oscillators, rapid manufacturing, and slippage

Multiscale modeling and characterization of the biomechanical properties of the bone-implant interface

Reconstructing oscillator networks from observations

Topology optimization with curvature constraints using a spline-based representation

Nonlinear regimes of locally resonant systems

Computational Nanomechanics – Studying Plasticity from the Atomic Scale

Universality of the Frequency Spectrum of Laminates

Turbulent Premixed Flames within the context of a Hydrodynamic Theory

Self-excited Oscillations, Bifurcations and Chaos in Nonlinear Optomechanical Thermo-Visco-Elastic Panel Resonators

Passive and semi-active mechanisms of irreversible energy flow in coupled Hertzian models

A zinc-bromine redox flow battery with fluidized bed electrode

MICROSCALE ELECTROKINETICS – FROM ENHANCED BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS TO CONFIGURABLE MICROSTRUCTURES

Twin Cavity 2D Trapped Vortex Combustor

Enhanced mechanical properties of bulk graphene/aluminum composites with a nanolaminated structure

Hydrodynamic-Structural Analysis for the Design of Flexible Systems for Open Sea Aquaculture

Bi-stability and multi-stability in structures

Lame Mode Filled-Gap Resonator

Electrostatic tuning of band-gaps in soft dielectrics

New thermodynamics ideas to double solar cell’s efficiency

Modeling of polymer as a robot

The Mechanical Response and Phase Transformation Kinetics of NiTi Under Rapid Pulse Heating

Effect of environmental conditions on the flaming ignition of solid combustibles

A Pulsed Coandă-Effect Reciprocating Wind Energy Generator

Dynamics and Synchronization of Mechanically-Coupled Beating Cardiomyocytes

Phase Change Material Engine for Micro Air Vehicle

Plastic yield inception of a soft coated sphere compressed by a rigid flat

MECHANO-RESPONSIVE NANO-TEXTURED HYDROGELS

Experimental investigation on the various parameters affecting the performance of a water-lubricated bearing

Making neurosurgery safer: a computer-based approach

3D Point Cloud Registration for Localization using a Deep Neural Network Auto-Encoder

Analysis of stability transitions in a microswimmer with superparamagnetic head

Suppression of Combustion Instability in Gas Turbine Combustion Chamber

Optimization And Guidance Of Redundant Systems

Orders of magnitude hydraulic permeability increase and performance characterization of flow-through desalination electrodes

Electrokinetic response of elastic surfaces and porous particles to electric fields: from basic principles to applications

Energy performance analysis of a passive elastic element with a timed clutch for human load carriage

Dynamics and gait optimization of multi-link swimming robot using “perfect fluid” model

Smart Micro Structures: Directional Features for Enhancing the Performance of Micro Transducers

Localization in Finite Vibroimpact Chains: Discrete Breathers, Multibreathers and Asymmetric Discrete Breathers

Robot for Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Controllable soft structures: from design to fabrication

The magneto-mechanical response of magnetostrictive composites for stress sensing applications

The nonlinear dynamics and mechanics of robotic locomotion

Hemodynamic Navigator – A novel technology for cardiovascular management by engineering principles body-conductivity, Signal processing and Fluid Mechanics

3D Bioprinting of cells and tissue analogues

Heat transfer enhancement in counter-flow-heat-exchanger for use in micro fabricated Joule-Thomson cryocooler

2nd Generation Development of a Flexible Track Robot – RoboTrek, for Autonomous Locomotion over High Obstacles

Stress-Moduli Monotonicity and Optimized Material Morphology

Investigation of the dynamic tensile behavior of glassy polymers

Modeling plasticity by non-continuous deformation

Dynamics of an elastic sphere containing a thin creeping region and immersed in an acoustic region for similar viscous-elastic and acoustic time- and length-scales

Mechanical Properties of Hollow and Coated Rigid Cylinders at the Nanoscale

Self-Propagating Miniature Device Based on Shape Memory Alloy

Towards a Microfluidic Device for Cell Pairing

Nanoparticle emissions and performance of in-use buses retrofitted with Diesel Particle Filters

Hip Joint Gait Biomechanics and Efficacy of Foot Center of Pressure Manipulation Employed for the Non-Invasive Treatment of Hip Joint Osteoarthritis

Experimental investigation on the use of non-focusing nucleic acid probes for sequence-specific detection under isotachophoresis

Modeling and Evaluating Technion’s Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Improving Navigation Performance

The Effect of Geometrical Symmetry Breaking and Advection on Concentration-Polarization Phenomenon in Micro/Nano-Fluidic Devices

Nonlinear Liquid Sloshing in Partially Filled Tanks: Modeling, Exploration and Mitigation

Experimental Illustration of Leveraging Internal Viscous Flow to Extend the Capabilities of Beam-Shaped Soft-Actuators

Solitary waves in nonintegrable lattices

Electrical System Engineering for a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Model of contact and wear between high speed moving parts of piezo-drives

Non-Rigid Kinematics in Various Biomechanical Applications Using Cosserat Point Theory

2D wave manipulation in the acoustic metamaterials with local inertial coupling

Bi Layered Spherical Contact

Symmetry breaking in non-linear electrokinetic colloidal transport at the micro/nanoscale

Development of a Navigation System for a Small Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Wide band vibration piezoelectric harvesters

Level set Strategy for SCFT

Enhancing the Functionality of Unimorph Piezoelectric Actuators

Finite Elements simulation of crack propagation from subsurface material defects in rolling contact fatigue

Elastic-plastic model for a coated sphere compressed by a rigid flat under full stick contact conditions

Wrist Biomechanics During Dynamic Loading

Rod and shell-like structures for biomedical applications

Study of Voltage-Current Characteristics Across the Ignition Gap of Internal Combustion Engines

Experimental study of the effect of coating thickness and substrate roughness on turning tool’s wear

The Effects of Body Weight Unloading on Biomechanical Parameters during Overground Walking

Release mechanism by means of a novel actuator based on shape memory wires subjected to high strain rates