Los Alamos names Farrar as Fellow for Structural Health Monitoring
Posted: 2012-11-28
Three distinguished members of the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientific
staff are being honored with appointment as Laboratory Fellows for 2012. The
committee ranked a collection of nominations on the basis of:
1) Sustained, high-level achievements in programs of importance to the
Laboratory;
2) A fundamental or important discovery that has led to widespread use;
3) Having become a recognized authority in the field, including outside
recognition and an outstanding record of publications.
The new Los Alamos Fellows are
Charles Farrar
Steven Elliott
Mikhail Shashkov
"Chuck, Steven, and Mikhail have made exceptional contributions in their fields
and to national security," said Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan. "To be
honored by their peers is a testament to their work. I congratulate the 2012
Laboratory Fellows and thank them for their service."
Charles Farrar, of the Los Alamos National Security Education Center, is one of
the preeminent structural health monitoring (SHM) pioneers in the world. SHM,
a relatively new field, has evolved out of the traditional nondestructive
evaluation method. However, while nondestructive evaluation tends to be a
local inspection methodology usually accomplished with the system taken out
of service, SHM focuses on continuous in situ monitoring of in-service systems
on a larger scale.
Farrar’s 305 publications and over 8,500 citations have made seminal
contributions in understanding damage detection for aerospace, civil and
mechanical infrastructure, new concepts in statistical pattern recognition,
highlighting the impact of operational and environmental variability on SHM,
and in predicting remaining system life based on SHM output. Farrar
established the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School and leads the Engineering
Institute emphasizing education, research, and technology integration as a
magnet for students, postdocs, technical staff, industrial partner, and external
collaborators from around the world.
Steven Elliott, of the Physics division’s Neutron Science & Technology group, is a
world leader in the physics field of weak interactions, one of the four
fundamental forces of nature beside the strong nuclear force, magnetism and
gravity. His work has been at the center of the discovery of neutrino mass—one
of the most important discoveries in fundamental physics in the past several
decades. With over 12,000 citations and as a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, his work is recognized the world over.
Mikhail Shashkov, of Computational Physics Division’s Methods and Algorithms
group, is a world-recognized leader in and developer of modern Arbitrary-
Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) methods for high speed, multi-material flows that
are the heart of Advanced Simulation and Computation (ACS) program for NNSA
and LANL weapons calculations. His research and methods are extensively used
at top research institutions around the world. His advances in numerical
methods for solving partial differential equations have been characterized as
having more impact on the reliability and accuracy of large-scale PDE-based
simulations at LANL than any other advances in the past two decades. Since
coming to the Laboratory in 1994 from Russia, he has over 250 publications
and more than 3400 citations.
staff are being honored with appointment as Laboratory Fellows for 2012. The
committee ranked a collection of nominations on the basis of:
1) Sustained, high-level achievements in programs of importance to the
Laboratory;
2) A fundamental or important discovery that has led to widespread use;
3) Having become a recognized authority in the field, including outside
recognition and an outstanding record of publications.
The new Los Alamos Fellows are
Charles Farrar
Steven Elliott
Mikhail Shashkov
"Chuck, Steven, and Mikhail have made exceptional contributions in their fields
and to national security," said Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan. "To be
honored by their peers is a testament to their work. I congratulate the 2012
Laboratory Fellows and thank them for their service."
Charles Farrar, of the Los Alamos National Security Education Center, is one of
the preeminent structural health monitoring (SHM) pioneers in the world. SHM,
a relatively new field, has evolved out of the traditional nondestructive
evaluation method. However, while nondestructive evaluation tends to be a
local inspection methodology usually accomplished with the system taken out
of service, SHM focuses on continuous in situ monitoring of in-service systems
on a larger scale.
Farrar’s 305 publications and over 8,500 citations have made seminal
contributions in understanding damage detection for aerospace, civil and
mechanical infrastructure, new concepts in statistical pattern recognition,
highlighting the impact of operational and environmental variability on SHM,
and in predicting remaining system life based on SHM output. Farrar
established the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School and leads the Engineering
Institute emphasizing education, research, and technology integration as a
magnet for students, postdocs, technical staff, industrial partner, and external
collaborators from around the world.
Steven Elliott, of the Physics division’s Neutron Science & Technology group, is a
world leader in the physics field of weak interactions, one of the four
fundamental forces of nature beside the strong nuclear force, magnetism and
gravity. His work has been at the center of the discovery of neutrino mass—one
of the most important discoveries in fundamental physics in the past several
decades. With over 12,000 citations and as a Fellow of the American Physical
Society, his work is recognized the world over.
Mikhail Shashkov, of Computational Physics Division’s Methods and Algorithms
group, is a world-recognized leader in and developer of modern Arbitrary-
Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) methods for high speed, multi-material flows that
are the heart of Advanced Simulation and Computation (ACS) program for NNSA
and LANL weapons calculations. His research and methods are extensively used
at top research institutions around the world. His advances in numerical
methods for solving partial differential equations have been characterized as
having more impact on the reliability and accuracy of large-scale PDE-based
simulations at LANL than any other advances in the past two decades. Since
coming to the Laboratory in 1994 from Russia, he has over 250 publications
and more than 3400 citations.
