主讲人：Dr. Lihua Tang (汤丽华) 新西兰奥克兰大学 副教授/博导
报告题目：Origami Dynamics
报告简介：Origami is an ancient art of paper folding, which can produce complicated geometrical objects by folding a flat sheet of paper with straightforward operations. Recently, origami has inspired designs in various engineering applications ranging from large deployable spacecraft to nanostructures. In this talk, first, vibration control techniques by exploiting the intriguing features of origami dynamics will be presented, including origami-inspired isolators and tunable mechanical memory metamaterials. Then, the origami-inspired designs for harvesting energy from low-frequency vibration sources will be covered. I will conclude the talk by briefing other recent innovations in metamaterial and energy harvesting in our group.
主讲人简介：Lihua Tang is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Auckland. His main research interests include smart materials and adaptive structures, energy harvesting, vibration & noise control, nonlinear dynamics, mechanical/acoustic metamaterials, acoustic power transfer, and thermoacoustics. He has authored and co-authored more than 230 technical papers in influential international journals and conferences, which have been cited over 9200 times (google scholar, as of December 2023) with an H-index of 53. He received a number of prestigious paper awards, including 2023 ASME Best Paper Award in Energy Harvesting, 2019 ASME Best Paper Award in Mechanics and Material Systems, 2019 ASME Best Paper Award in Structural Dynamics and Control. He is the recipient of New Zealand Chinese Scientists Association Young Scientist Award and the prestigious Marsden fund from the Royal Society of New Zealand. He is currently the Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures. He has been listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists List since 2020 (Ranking generated by Stanford University). In the Best Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Scientists list generated by Research.com in December 2022, he was ranked #3 in New Zealand and #931 worldwide.
