Title: Videographic Modal Analysis: Qualification Testing with Only a Video Camera

Presenter: Matthew Brake, Associate Professor Prof. Brake started at Rice University in 2016 after working at Sandia National Laboratories for nine years. Prior to Sandia, Prof. Brake graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. Prof. Brake has been elected to several leadership positions, including as the director of the International Committee on Joint Mechanics, the chair of the Nonlinear Dynamics Technical Division of SEM, and the chair of the ASME Technical Committee on Vibration and Sound. He is a recipient of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the 2018 C.D. Mote Jr Early Career Award, and the National Science Foundation Career Award. Much of Prof. Brake’s career has focused on developing large-scale collaborations and supporting graduate student education. To this end, he founded and directed both the Tribomechadynamics Research Camp (TRC) Summer Program, which rotates between Rice University, Imperial College London, and the University of Stuttgart, and the Nonlinear Mechanics and Dynamics (NOMAD) Institute at Sandia National Laboratories. His primary research interests are in data-driven experimentation, multi-scale and multi-physics modeling, vibration, tribology, uncertainty propagation, structural health monitoring, and nonlinear dynamics.