Mechanical Engineering Faculty Profile:

Dr. Balakumar Balachandran
Professor and Associate Chair of Mechanical Engineering,
Director of Graduate Studies

Nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control
(301) 405-5309 |  balab@umd.edu | website | Room 2133, Building 088, Glenn L. Martin Hall

Vita
Dr. Balachandran received his B. Tech (Naval Architecture) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, M.S. (Aerospace Engineering) from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA and Ph.D. (Engineering Mechanics) from Virginia Tech. Currently, he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, where has been since 1993. His research interests include nonlinear phenomena, dynamics and vibrations, and control. The publications that he has authored/co-authored include over forty journal publications, a Wiley textbook entitled "Applied Nonlinear Dynamics: Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods" (1995) and a Thomson textbook entitled "Vibrations" (2004). He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Vibration and Control, is a Deputy Editor of the AIAA Journal, and is an Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. He is a Fellow of ASME, a senior member of AIAA, and a member of AAM, ASA, Sigma Xi, and SPIE. He served as the Chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division Technical Committee on Dynamics and Control of Structures and Systems from 2005 to 2007, and he currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the ASME Design Engineering Division Technical Committee on Multi-Body Systems and Nonlinear Dynamics.

Education
Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1990

Selected Publications
Nayfeh, A. H. and Balachandran, B., Applied Nonlinear Dynamics:
Analytical, Computational, and Experimental Methods, Wiley, New York
(1995).

Balachandran, B., “Dynamics of Elastic Structures Excited by Harmonic
and Aharmonic Impactor Motions,” Journal of Vibration and Control,
Vol. 9, pp.
265–279 (2003).

Balachandran, B., and E.B. Magrab, Vibrations, Brooks/Cole, Pacific
Grove, CA (2004).

Balachandran, B. and Gilsinn, D., "Nonlinear Oscillations of Milling",
Mathematical and Computer Modelling of Dynamical Systems, Vol. 11, pp.
273–290 (2005).

Al-Bassyiouni, M. and Balachandran, B., "Control of Enclosed Sound
Fields Using Zero Spillover Schemes,” Journal of Sound and Vibration,
Vol. 292, pp.
645–660 (2006).

Li, H. and Balachandran, B., "Buckling and Free Oscillations of
Composite Microresonators," IEEE Journal of MEMS, Vol. 15 (1), pp.
42-51 (2006).

Preidikman, S. and Balachandran, B., “A Semi-Analytical Tool Based on
Geometric Nonlinearities for Microresonator Design,” Journal of Micromechanics
and Microengineering, Vol. 16, pp. 512–525 (2006).

Scientific and Professional Membership
Reviewer, AIAA Journal; ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics; ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics; ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control; Journal of Acoustical Society of America; Journal of Sound and Vibration; Journal of Vibration and Control; Nonlinear Dynamics; Smart Material and Structures; Shock and Vibration; International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics; International Journal of Solids and Structures; Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures; Chaos, Solitons, and Fractals; IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems; IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering; IEEE Journal of MEMS; Sensors and Actuators; Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering; Philosophical Transaction, European Journal of Mechanics; Physics Letters. Reviewed proposals for NRC (AFOSR Mechanics Program), ARO, NSF, DOD EPSCOR;

Honors and Awards
Invention of the Year Award, Physical Sciences Category, University of Maryland (2002)
2003 ASME Fellow