Faculty:
Dimitris C. Lagoudas
Jim Boyd
Ibrahim Karaman

Staff:
George Chatzigeorgiou
Hongxing Zheng

Rodney Inmon

Graduate: 
Olivier Bertacchini
Krishnendu Haldar
Darren Hartl
Parikshith Kumar
Francis Phillips
Justin Schick
Brent Volk

Undergraduate: 
Filler

Former Students:
Wendell S. Bielefeld
Erin Bishop
Zhonghe Bo
Alicia Broederdorf
Terry L. Clancy
Brett J. deBlonk
Zhonghai Ding
Pavlin B. Entchev
Luke J. Garner
Olivier Godard
Claire Hazelbaker
Stephen D. Howard
Declan Hughes
P.K. Imbrie
Juan C. Jimenez-Victory
Hyoung Yoll Jun
Mughees Khan
Bjoern Kiefer
Mayur Govind Kulkarni
Praveen Kumar Gnanasekaran
Zingzheng Ma
Luciano Machado
Raghavendran Mani
J.J. Mayes
Matthew D. McNeese
Tony Menn
David Miller
Jesse Mooney
Ren Sang Nah
Bryan Nelson
Bong Taek Oh
Rajagopal S. Pachalla
Luke Penrod
Jamie Pfaeffle
Peddiraju Pravin
Muhammad A. Siddiq Qidwai
Mohammad Atiqur Rahman
Randy W. Ransom Jr.
Matthew E. Rosenthal
Heather S. Scurry
Kristi Shryock
David Smith
Justin Strelec
Robertus Triharjanto
Eric Vandygriff
Kai Wang
Jeff Warren
Glenn Viktor Webb
Larry N. Wilson
Robert Worsham
Gongming Xu
Shouze Xu
  
Luciano Machado
Ph.D. Student / CAPES Fellow



City/Country of Origin:
Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Full CV- Lattes (in Portuguese)
Full CV (English)

Education:
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Federal Center of Technological Education (CEFET-RJ)
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering (IME-RJ)


Research Areas:
Nonlinear Dynamic and Chaotic Behavior of Mechanical Systems
Nonlinear Vibration of Shape Memory Alloy Systems
Passive Vibration Isolation of Mechanical Systems Using Shape Memory Alloy Actuators

Proceedings:
Dynamical Response of SMA Actuators(2004)
Nonlinear Vibration of a One-Degree of Freedom Shape Memory Alloy Oscillator:
A numerical-experimental investigation(2005)


Contact Information:
Room 607C H. R. Bright Building
Fax: 979-8456051
Phone: 979-845-4494
luciano@tamu.edu