Professor Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn

 
Professor of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Professor of Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Group

SpaceED (Space Engineering Research and Graduate Program) Leader
Director, Scaled Model Aerospace and Research Laboratory (SMARTLAB)
Co-Director, Transportation Noise Control Center (TNCC)

Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1984.
Commercial and Instrument rated pilot in 25 aircraft.

nsarigulklijn@ucdavis.edu
(530)-752-0682
Professor N. Sarigul-Klijn
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-5294

  Expertise   Experience   Awards   Grad Advisor   Chaired Res   Publications   Online Pubs   Links

Areas of Expertise


Aerospace and Mechanical Systems/Vehicles Structural Dynamics

Acoustics and Aeroeasticity

Advanced Computational Methods, such as Finite element Methods

Minimum Weight Design, Manufacturing and Flight testing of aeroelastically or acoustically scaled composite vehicles

Effects of Space Flight on Human Spine

Vibroacoustics

Environmental Noise Control.


Experience


Assistant Professor, (1984-89), Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Ohio State University.

NASA Faculty Fellow, (1985 and 1986) NASA Lewis Research Center.

Associate Professor, (1989-96) Dept of Mech. And Aero Engineering, UC Davis.

Full Professor, (1996-present) Dept of Mech and Aero Engineering, UC Davis.

Consultant, (1984-present) Various Aerospace Companies in Structural Dynamics, Aeroelasticity, Noise Control, Nonlinear Finite Element Formulations, Acoustics and System Design of mechanical and aerospace systems/subsystems.

Payload Manager, 1987 , NASA Get Away Special Experiment G-0318, Material Processing in Space.

Reviewer, AIAA journals, IJNME, ASME journals and proposals from Air Force and NSF.

Member, Space Research Advisory Committee, California.


Honors and Awards


Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Amelia Earhart Fellow, wings and medal for her research in aerospace.

Honorary Member, Golden Key national Honor Society.

Teetor Educational award, in recognition of her significant contributions to teaching, research and student development.

Faculty advisor to Flight Vehicle design Aerobrick team, which took 1st place at a national competition (40 colleges) with their all composite 1/7th scale design R/C aircraft by demonstrating a flight with 5.5 times of structural weight as payload. (Lockheed Martin/SAE Award).


Graduate Student Research Advisor


Directing M.S. thesis and Ph.D. dissertation research of 4-6 students each year. Research areas are in minimum weight design with aeroelastic and acoustic constraints, landing recovery system studies: winged, rotor, or parachute recovery system trades and scaled flight testing, development of advanced finite element methods to solve steep gradient problems of high temperature due to aerodynamic heating or shock loading; Environmental noise control; flow induced vibrations.

Titles of Thesis/Dissertation Research Chaired

 

Selected Publications

THERMOMECHANICAL COUPLING EFFECTS AT HIGH FLIGHT SPEEDS, O. R. Odabas and N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA Journal, 32(2):425-430, (1994).

INFLUENCE OF CHORDWISE VIBRATION MODES ON COMPRESSOR BLADE FLUTTER PREDICTIONS, N. Sarigul-Klijn and S. Oguz, Proceedings of 31st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, July 10-12, San Diego, CA, AIAA 95-2485, (1995).

GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR FORMULATION FOR ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE PLATES USING BOUNDARY TRACTION ELEMENT FAMILY, N. Sarigul-Klijn and A. Morales, In: SES'95, Dottui and S. Michaelides (Eds.), 32nd Annual Technical Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, New Orleans, LA, (1995).

SINGLE- AND MULTI-LEVEL OPTIMIZATION IN DESIGN: CONVERGENCE RATE STUDIES, N. Sarigul-Klijn and J. Ramones, 6ISCFD Conference Proceedings, Lake Tahoe, NV, (1995).

MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF A 3-D FINITE ELEMENT MODEL OF AN INSTRUMENTED SYNTHETIC VERTEBRAL BODY, N. Sarigul-Klijn, R. M. McGregor, T.O. McKinley, R.F. McLain, Advances in Bioengineering, Hull (Ed.), ASME, (1995).

DESIGN MODIFICATIONS AND FLIGHT TESTS TO INSTALL A GPS ANTENNA ON THE A-10 AIRCRAFT, T. A. Armstrong and N. Sarigul-Klijn, 37th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AMS/ASC SDM Conference Proc, pp. 542-550, (1996).

ANALYSIS OF THE OH-6A HELICOPTER FLIGHT TEST DATA USING LISSAJOUS FIGURES, N. Sarigul-Klijn and M. Sarigul-Klijn, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 20-22, (1997).

THE EFFECT OF PEDICLE MORPHOMETRY ON PEDICLE SCREW LOADING: A SYNTHETIC MODEL, T. O. McKinley, R. F. McLain, S. A. Yearby, N. Sarigul-Klijn, T. S. Smith, SPINE Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 246-252.

THE EFFECT OF BONE QUALITY ON PEDICLE SCREW LOADING IN AXIAL INSTABILITY: A SYNTHETIC MODEL, R.F. McLain, T.O. McKinley, S. A. Yerby, T. S. Smith, N. Sarigul-Klijn, SPINE Journal, pp.1454-1460, (1997).

ON THE FORMULATION OF GRADIENT ADAPTIVE TRANSFINITE ELEMENTS (GATE) FAMILY: STEEP GRADIENTS AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD, N. Sarigul-Klijn, Davis, CA, ISBN 0-9643757-1-0, NSK, (1997).

CHORDWISE BENDING EFFECTS IN COUPLED FLUTTER MODES, N. Sarigul-Klijn and V. R. Capece, Proc. of 4th National Congress on Computational Mechanics, August, (1997).

A MODEL TO PREDICT ACCUMULATION AND REPAIR OF FATIGUE DAMAGE IN OSTEONAL BONE, L. A. Lum, N. Sarigul-Klijn, R. Bruce Martin, Proc. of 4th National Congress on Computational Mechanics, August, (1997).

COUPLED FLUID-STRUCTURE INSTABILITIES AT HIGH FLIGHT SPEEDS, N. Sarigul-Klijn and V. R. Capece, Proc. of 10th International Conference in Finite Elements in Fluids, January, (1998).

STUDY OF TRANSPORATION NOISE CRITERIA FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES OF BIRDS, N. Sarigul-Klijn and D.C. Karnopp, Proc. of Spring Environmental Noise Conference Innovations in Noise Control for the Energy Industry, Canada, April 19-22, (1998).

EFFECT OF ASPECT RATIO AND PLY ORIENTATION ON AEROELASTIC RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE PLATES, N. Sarigul-Klijn and S. Oguz, Journal of Aircraft, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 657-659, (1998).

A MODAL SYNTHESIS APPROACH FOR DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF SPACE VEHICLE SYSTEMS, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Proceedings of Dynamics Acoustics and Simulation, 1998 IMECE, November, (1998).

CHARACTERISTICS OF PEDICLE SCREW LOADING: EFFECT OF SURGICAL TECHNIQUE ON INTRAVERTEBRAL AND INTRAPEDICULAR BENDING MOMENTS, T. O. McKinley, R. F. McLain, S. C. Yerby, N. A. Sharkey, N. Sarigul-Klijn, Spine Journal, V 24, N 1, pp 18-24, (1998).

AN AUTOMATED APPROACH IN DIGITAL HUMAN JOINT GENERATION, Wallach and N. Sarigul-Klijn, Proc. of Digital Human Modeling for Design and Engineering, SAE, (1998).

HIGH SPEED VEHICLE ARODYNAMIC NOISE RESEARCH AT UC DAVIS, N. Sarigul-Klijn, Proceedings of TRB A1F04 Meeting on Noise and Vibration, August (1999).

AN APPLICATION OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION TO AN ARTICULATED ROTOR BLADE IN HIGH SPEED, J. Kim and N. Sarigul-Klijn, Proceedings of Opti Conf 99, Newport Beach, (1999).

AEROELASTIC OPTIMIZATION OF AN ARTICULATED ROTOR BLADE, J. Kim and N. Sarigul-Klijn, 36th Technical Meeting of SES, Dynamic Systems, (1999).

EFFICIENT INTERFACING OF FLUID AND STRUCTURE FOR AEROELASTIC INSTABILITY PREDICTIONS, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, V 47, pp.705-728, (2000).

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION FOR LIGHT-WEIGHT ARTICULATED ROTOR BLADE, J.Kim and Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, 41st AIAA/ASME/AHS SDM Conference, Proceeding, 2000.

A METHODOLOGY FOR INTEGRATING GATE-DOMAINS AND KIRCHOFF FORMULATIONS IN ACOUSTICS, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Finite Elements in Flow Problems 2000, Austin, TX, May 2000.

EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF TIRE TREAD BLOCK IMPACT NOISE, J.Wilson, D.Karnopp and N. Sarigul-Klijn, Procs. of 139th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, June 2000.

THE EFFECT OF PAVEMENT POROSITY ON TIRE TREAD BLOCK NOISE GENERATION, S.Jones, D.Karnopp and N. Sarigul-Klijn, 29th Int. Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control, Nice, France, August 2000.

RANDOM AND PERIODIC SQUARE WAVE BARRIERS IN NOISE CONTROL, N. Sarigul-Klijn and D. Karnopp, Procs. of 140th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of American, December 4-8, Newport Beach, CA

INTERIM LAUNCH SYSTEM, M.Sarigul-Klijn and N. Sarigul-Klijn, SPACE200 Conference Proceedings, AIAA 2000-5359, September 2000.

A COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTIC METHOD FOR NEAR AND FAR FIELD VEHICLE NOISE PREDICTIONS, N. Sarigul-Klijn, D.Dietz, D.Karnopp, and J. Dummer, AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference, Reno, NV, AIAA-2001-0513, January 2001.

MATERIAL/GEOMETRY ADAPTIVE SHAPE FUNCTIONS FOR RAYLEIGH-RITZ VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE PLATES, J.Kim and N. Sarigul-Klijn, Journal of Aircarft, V. 38, N. 3, 560-564, May-June 2001.

A STUDY OF AIR LAUNCH METHODS FOR RLVs, M. Sarigul-Klijn and N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA Space2001 Conference Proceedings, AIAA 2001-4619, NM, August 2001.

IN-VITRO MEASUREMENTS OF MICROGRAVITY INDUCED KINEMATICS CHANGES ON SPINE, D.Reiter, N. Sarigul-Klijn, M. Gupta, F. Fathallah, ASME, Advances in Bioengineering, 2001.

AN EFFICIENT MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN OPTIMIZATION METHOD AND APPLICATIONS TO ROTOR DESIGN, J.Kim and N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA Journal (to appear).

Papers Available in Full Length (.pdf)


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FLIGHT MECHANICS OF MANNED SUB-ORBITAL REUSABLE LAUNCH VEHICLES WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FOR LAUNCH AND RECOVERY,
M. Sarigul-Klijn and N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA 2003-0909.

RANDOM AND PERIODIC SQUARE WAVE BARRIERS IN NOISE CONTROL,
N. Sarigul-Klijn and D. Karnopp, NOISE-CON 2000

A COMPUTATIONAL AEROACOUSTIC METHOD FOR NEAR AND FAR FIELD VEHICLE NOISE PREDICTIONS, N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA 2001-0513.

EFFICIENT INTERFACING OF FLUID AND STRUCTURE FOR AEROELASTIC INSTABILITY PREDICTIONS, N. Sarigul-Klijn, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng. 47, 705-728 (2000).

A STUDY OF AIR LAUNCH METHODS FOR RLVs, M.Sarigul-Klijn and N. Sarigul-Klijn, AIAA Space 2001, AIAA 2001-4619.

FLIGHT VEHICLE DESIGN AND FLIGHT TESTING, N. Sarigul-Klijn


Links to Related Sites


Transportation Noise Control Center (TNCC) Home page.

Scaled Model Aerospace Research and Testing Laboratory (SMARTLAB)

UCD Robotics Team

Rockets Team

Aeronautical Design Team (Aerobrick)

Space Engineering Research (SpaceED)

A really cool Aerobrick video in .avi format.


 
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last updated 5/13/2003