Faculty Directory

Mikhail F. Dimentberg

Professor

Office: Higgins Laboratories, 212
Phone: +1-508-831-5368
Fax: +1-508-831-5680
diment@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• Ph.D., Moscow Institute of Power Engineering, 1963

Research & Teaching Interests

Applied mechanics; random vibration and nonlinear dynamics

Recent Publications

• Dimentberg, M. and Iourtchenko, D., "Stochastic and/or Chaotic Response of a Vibroimpact System to an Imperfectly Periodic Sinusoidal Excitation". International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos (in press).

• Dimentberg, M., Ryzhik, B. and Sperling, L., "Random Vibrations of a Damped Rotating Shaft". Journal of Sound and Vibration 279, 2005, pp. 275 - 284.

• Dimentberg, M. and Iourtchenko, D., "Random Vibrations with Impacts: a Survey". Nonlinear Dynamics, 36 (2 - 4), 2004, pp. 229 - 254.

• Dimentberg, M.F. and Lin, Y.K. "An Exact Solution for Response Spectral Density of a SDOF System under both Parametric and Additive Random Excitations". Journal of Applied Mechanics, 69, 2002, # 3, pp. 399 - 400.

• Iourtchenko, D. and Dimentberg, M., "In-service identification of nonlinear damping from measured random vibration". Journal of Sound and Vibration, v. 255(3), 2002, pp. 549 - 554.

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Honors & Awards

• Faculty Advisor of the MQP, that received a bronze medal in the National Contest of the Undergraduate Students Theses, arranged by the Lincoln Arc Welding Institute, 1994.
• Fulbright Scholarship recipient, 2002/2003

Professional Experience & Activities

• Member, Sigma Xi
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Vibration and Control, 1995 - present.
• Member, Scientific Committee, Fourth International Conference on Stochastic Structural Dynamics, University of Notre Dame, August 6-8, 1998.
• Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Impact and Friction of Solids, Structures and Machines, June 27-30, 1998, Ottawa, Canada.