Daniel J. Inman
Professor
Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
United States of America
Biography
Daniel J. Inman received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Mechanical Engineering in 1980 and is Chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, as well as the C. L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor. Since 1980, he has published eight books (on vibration, energy harvesting, control, statics, and dynamics), eight software manuals, 20 book chapters, over 350 journal papers and 600 proceedings papers, given 62 keynote or plenary lectures, graduated 62 Ph.D. students and supervised more than 75 MS degrees.
Research Interest
He works in the area of applying smart structures to solve aerospace engineering problems including energy harvesting, structural health monitoring, vibration suppression and morphing aircraft. He is a Fellow of AIAA, ASME, IIAV, SEM and AAM.
Publications
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Zhou, S., Hobeck, J.D., Cao, J. and Inman, D.J., 2017. Analytical and experimental investigation of flexible longitudinal zigzag structures for enhanced multi-directional energy harvesting. Smart Materials and Structures, 26(3), p.035008.
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Abdeljaber, O., Avci, O., Kiranyaz, S., Gabbouj, M. and Inman, D.J., 2017. Real-time vibration-based structural damage detection using one-dimensional convolutional neural networks. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 388, pp.154-170.
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Lee, A. J., Moosavian, K. and Inman, D. J., 2017 “A Piezoelectrically Generated Bistable Laminate for Morphingâ€, Materials Letters, Vol. 190, pp. 123-126.
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Gamble, L.L. and Inman, D.J., 2017. “Yaw Control of a Smart Morphing Tailless Aircraft Conceptâ€, Advances in Science and Technology, Vol. 101, pp. 127-132.
