Group Members

Faculty

Lawrence N. Virgin

Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

PhD Students

Masters Students

Undergraduates

Collaborators

Earl H. Dowell

William Holland Hall Distinguished Professor

Horst Ecker

Univ.-Prof. DI Dr., Technical University of Vienna

Henri P. Gavin

Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Tod Laursen

President, American University of Sharjah, UAE

Boonchai Phungpaingam

Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi

Ilinca Stanciulescu

Formerly, Associate Professor, Rice University

J Michael T Thompson

Emeritus Professor, Cambridge University

Thomas P. Witelski

Professor in the Department of Mathematics

Former Graduate Students

Phil Bayly

Professor and Chair, Washington University in St. Louis

Ziquan Dai

Former Masters student, now pursuing a PhD in Singapore

Ben Davis

Associate Professor, University of Georgia

Chris George

Teaching Professor, Kettering University

Joseph Giliberto

Masters student, now a PhD student at Cornell

Susan Guan

Assistant Professor, University of Memphis

Scott Harvey

Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma

Gottwald James

Senior Principal Systems Engineer II, BAE Systems

Ted Lyman

Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab

Kevin Murphy

Professor and Chair, University of Louisville

Jon Nichols

Associate Superintendent, Naval Research Lab

Sophia Santillan

Associate Professor of the Practice, Duke University

Richard Wiebe

Associate Professor, University of Washington

About Lawrie Virgin

Lawrie Virgin is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University in North Carolina.

He is a former Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and has been a faculty member at Duke since 1988. Prior to that he received his education in the United Kingdom culminating in a PhD from the University of London (UCL).

His research interests are centered on nonlinear mechanics especially buckling, nonlinear vibration and their interaction. Applications of his research include ship capsize, aeroelasticity, marine risers, rocking blocks, control, sonic fatigue, solar sails and the dynamics of very slender structures. Much of his latest research and teaching has involved 3D-printing.

He was the subject editor for Nonlinear Dynamics for Journal of Sound and Vibration for 10 years. He has written over a hundred and sixty journal papers and authored two books: "Introduction to Experimental Nonlinear Dynamics” (2000) and “Vibration of Axially Loaded Structures” (2007) both published by Cambridge University Press.

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