Amey Khanolkar, Ph.D. Russell L. Heath Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow Research Areas:
Materials Characterization Biography:
Amey is a Russell L. Heath Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow within the Materials Science and Engineering Department at INL. He received his BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA in 2013, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA in 2018. Prior to joining INL, Amey was a postdoctoral researcher within the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California San Diego. As an undergraduate student, Amey was a research intern at the Federal Aviation Administration’s Technical Center in Atlantic City, NJ. His research interests broadly include developing laser ultrasonic techniques to assess defects in material microstructure, and tailoring stress waves with novel phononic structures and metamaterials. His doctoral thesis investigated ultrasonic wave tailoring phenomena in micro-scale granular materials using a variety of laser ultrasonic techniques. At INL, Amey is currently studying thermal transport and elastic wave propagation in ion-irradiated oxide and metallic materials under the Center for Thermal Energy Transport under Irradiation. Education: Ph.D.,Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University Publications: M. A. Ghanem, A. Khanolkar, S. P. Wallen, M. Helwig, M. Hiraiwa, A. A. Maznev, N. Vogel, and N. Boechler, Longitudinal eigenvibration of multilayer colloidal crystals and the effect of nanoscale contact bridges, Nanoscale (2019).
J. Zheng, A. Khanolkar, P. Xu, S. Colburn, S. Deshmukh, J. Myers, J. Frantz, E. Pop, J. Hendrickson, J. Doylend, N. Boechler, and A. Majumdar, GST-on-silicon hybrid nanophotonic integrated circuits: a non-volatile quasi-continuously reprogrammable platform, Optical Materials Express, 8, no. 6, 1551-1561 (2018).
A. Geslain, S. Raetz, M. Hiraiwa, M. Abi Ghanem, S. P. Wallen, A. Khanolkar, N. Boechler, J. Laurent, C. Prada, A. Duclos, P. Leclaire, and J.-P. Groby, Spatial Laplace transform for complex wavenumber recovery and its application to the analysis of attenuation in acoustic systems, J. Appl. Phys., 120, no. 13, 135107 (2016).
M. Hiraiwa, M. Stossel, A. Khanolkar, J. Wang, and N. Boechler, Laser-Induced Spallation of Microsphere Monolayers, Langmuir, 32, no. 31, 7730-7734 (2016).
M. Hiraiwa, M. A. Ghanem, S. P. Wallen, A. Khanolkar, A. A. Maznev, and N. Boechler, Complex contact-based dynamics of microsphere monolayers revealed by resonant attenuation of surface acoustic waves, Phys. Rev. Lett., 116, no. 19, 198001 (2016).
J. K. Eliason, A. Vega-Flick, M. Hiraiwa, A. Khanolkar, T. Gan, N. Boechler, N. Fang, K. A. Nelson, and A. A. Maznev, Resonant attenuation of surface acoustic waves by a disordered monolayer of microspheres, Appl. Phys. Lett., 108, no. 6, 061907 (2016).
A. Vega-Flick, J. K. Eliason, A. A. Maznev, A. Khanolkar, M. Abi Ghanem, N. Boechler, J. J. Alvarado-Gil, and K. A. Nelson, Laser-induced transient grating setup with continuously tunable period, Rev. Sci. Instr., 86, no. 12, 123101 (2015).
J. Awerbuch, D. Ozevin, A. Khanolkar, and T.-M. Tan, Damage Identification Using Acoustic Emission Data Obtained from Large Composite Structures, Structural Health Monitoring 2015 (2015).
A. Khanolkar, S. Wallen, M. Abi Ghanem, J. Jenks, N. Vogel, and N. Boechler, A self-assembled metamaterial for Lamb waves, Appl. Phys. Lett., 107, no. 7, 071903 (2015).
A. Khanolkar, A. Bergan, D. Ozevin, J. G. Bakuckas, J. Awerbuch, and T. M. Tan, Monitoring Acoustic Emission in a PRSEUS Fuselage Panel under Combined Loading, In American Society for Composites 27th Annual Technical Conference, Arlington, TX, (2012).
A. Khanolkar, J. Baldwin, J. G. Bakuckas Jr, R. Keller, J. Awerbuch, and T.-M. Tan, Process Robustness Study for Adhesively Bonded Repairs to Aluminum Structure, In The Aircraft Airworthiness & Sustainment Conference, Baltimore, MD, (2012).
Patents: N. Boechler, M. Abi Ghanem, and A. Khanolkar, “Tunable Metamaterials for Ultrasonic Signal Processing Devices, Systems and Methods”, U.S. Provisional Application Serial No: _62/780,818_ filed on December 17, 2018. Presentations: A. Khanolkar, P. Lucas, P. Deymier, N. Boechler, “Optically-induced moduli changes in chalcogenide glasses: towards tunable phononic crystals for surface acoustic waves”, at ASME 2017 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Tampa, FL, November 3 - 9, 2017.
A. Khanolkar, M. Abi Ghanem, S. Wallen, M. Hiraiwa, N. Boechler, “Longitudinal Eigen-vibrations and Surface Acoustic Wave Propagation in Self-Assembled Multilayer Micro-scale Granular Crystals”, at ASME 2016 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Phoenix, AZ, November 11 - 17, 2016.
A. Khanolkar, M. Abi Ghanem, S. Wallen, M. Hiraiwa, N. Boechler, “Tuning Phonon Transport in Microsphere-based Metamaterials via Contact Nonlinearity”, at 2015 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA, November 29 - December 4, 2015.
A. Khanolkar, S. Wallen, M. Abi Ghanem, J. Jenks, N. Vogel, N. Boechler, “A Microsphere-based Locally-Resonant Metamaterial for Lamb Waves”, at ASME 2015 Applied Mechanics and Materials Conference, June 29 - July 1, 2015, Seattle, WA.
A. Khanolkar, A. Bergan, D. Ozevin, J. Awerbuch, T.-M. Tan, “Monitoring Acoustic Emission in a Full- Scale PRSEUS Fuselage Panel under Combined Loading,” American Society of Composites 27th Annual Technical Conference, Arlington, TX, October 1-3, 2012.
A. Khanolkar, D. Ozevin, J. Awerbuch, T.-M. Tan, J. Bakuckas, J., A. Bergan, “Acoustic Emission Testing of a Curved Pultruded Rod Stitched Efficient Unitized Structure (PRSEUS) Under Combined Loading,” Acoustic Emission Working Group-54: Princeton, NJ, May 21-22, 2012.
A. Khanolkar, J. Baldwin, J. Bakuckas, R. Keller, J. Awerbuch, T.-M. Tan, “Process Robustness Study for Adhesively-Bonded Repairs to Aluminum Structure”, at The 2012 Aircraft Airworthiness and Sustainment Conference, Baltimore, MD, April 2-5, 2012.
Awards: Russell L. Heath Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship, Idaho National Laboratory (2019 – 2021). First Place & People’s Choice Award, University of Washington 3-Minute Thesis Competition (2018). FAA-Drexel Fellowship (2010 – 2012). Dean’s Scholarship, Drexel University (2008 – 2013). First Place, Business Plan Competition, Drexel Engineering Entrepreneurship Day (2012). Nominated for Outstanding Co-op Award, Drexel Steinbright Career Development Center (2012). Hess Scholars Promising Undergraduate Research Award, Drexel University (2011). Inducted to Pi Tau Sigma - The International Mechanical Engineering Honor Society (2010). Research Interests: Phononic Structures and Metamaterials
Dynamics of Micro- and Nano-structured Materials
Adhesion and Contact Mechanics
Materials under Shock / Extreme Conditions
Photo-elastically Tunable Materials
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