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Joseph A. Turner

Professor and Chair

W306 Nebraska Hall 
Department of Engineering Mechanics 
University of Nebraska 
Lincoln, NE 68588-0526 
Phone: (402) 472-8856 
Fax: (402) 472-8292 
E-mail: jaturner@unl.edu
Web site: http://em-jaturner.unl.edu/

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

Research Interests

  • Stochastic wave propagation: scattering, radiative transfer, diffusion, localization 
  • Experimental ultrasonics: nondestructive evaluation, materials characterization 
  • Elastic wave propagation: anisotropic media, layered media, geophysical media 
  • Nonlinear vibration of microsensors; dynamics of MEMS 
  • Structural acoustics: complex structures, structural localization, plates, shells

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Research Projects

Graduate and undergraduate research assistantships are often available for a variety of projects.  Both theoretical and experimental aspects of the above topics are being explored.  These assistantships are excellent opportunities to explore nondestructive evaluation, materials characterization, microsensors, MEMS, vibration, and acoustics.  For further details about current assistantships, please contact Dr. Turner.

Selected Publications


Turner, J. A., ‘‘Elastic wave propagation and scattering in heterogeneous, anisotropic media: Textured polycrystalline materials,’’ J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 106, to appear (1999).

Turner, J. A., ‘‘Scattering and diffusion of seismic waves,’’ The Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, 88, 276-283 (1998).

Turner, J. A., Hirsekorn, S., Rabe, U., and Arnold, W., ‘‘High frequency response of atomic-force microscope cantilevers,’’ Journal of Applied Physics, 82, 966-979 (1997).

Turner, J. A. and Weaver, R. L., ‘‘Coupling and attenuation of waves in plates by randomly distributed attached impedances,’’  J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2167-2175 (1996).

Turner, J. A. and Weaver, R. L., "Radiative transfer and multiple scattering of diffuse ultrasound in polycrystalline media,'' J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 96, 3675-3683 (1994).

W317.4 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0526

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