Dr. Seon Han
Contact Information
Dr. Seon Han
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX 79409-1021
Tel: (806)742-3563 ext. 226
Fax: (806)742-3540
email: seon.han@ttu.edu
Full Vita
Education
- Post Doctoral Scholarship, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, 2001-2003, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
- Doctor of Philosophy, Mechanical Engineering, 2001
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ - Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering, 1998, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ
- Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 1996
- The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
Experience
- Postdoctoral scholar and investigator, 2001-2003, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA
- Graduate Assistant 1996-2001, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - Lecturer for an undergraduate course in Vibrations and Controls, 1999
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey - Summer Intern at Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2001, Monbukagakusho and NSF Summer Institute program Japan
- Summer Intern at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, 2000
- NSF Summer Institute Program in Korea
Teaching Areas
- Vibrations
- Dynamics
- Random vibrations
Research Areas
- Mechanics of offshore platforms and marine structures
- Fluid induced vibration
- Random vibrations
Recent Publications
Books and Book chapters
- Haym Benaroya and Seon Han, to be published in 2005, Probabilistic Models, CRC Press.
- Seon Han, in press, Fluid Induced Vibrations, a chapter in the CRC Shock and Vibration Handbook.
- Seon Han and Haym Benaroya, 2002, Nonlinear Vibrations of Offshore Structures, Kluwer.
Journal Publications
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2005, Modeling of seabed interaction of oceanographic moorings in frequency domain, in progress
- S.M. Han 2005, Occurrence of double eigenvalues in a Timoshenko beam, submitted to Journal of Engineering Mechanics.
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2005, Development of a new capability for analyzing bending stresses in sea floor observatory, accepted by IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh 2004, Nonlinear free vibration of a cable against a straight obstacle, Journal of Sound and Vibration, 273, 337-361.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2002, Three-dimensional vibration of a compliant tower: Free vibration, Journal to Sound and Vibration 250(4), 675-709.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2002, Comparison of linear and nonlinear tension beams applied to offshore structures. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 14, 269-291.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2000, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a compliant structure I: Free Vibration, Journal of Sound and Vibration 237(5), 837-873.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya 2000, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a compliant structure II: Forced vibration, Journal of Sound and Vibration 237(5), 874-899.
- S.M. Han, H. Benaroya, and T. Wei, 1999, Dynamics of transversely vibrating beams using four engineering theories, Journal of Sound and Vibration 225(5), 935-988.
Conference Publications
- S.M. Han, On the elliptic and parabolic motion of a simple pendulum in three dimensions, The 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress, ASME, Aneheim, CA, November 2004.
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Modeling of seabed interaction of oceanographic moorings in frequency domain, The 2004 Civil Engineering in the Ocean VI, ASCE, Baltimore, MD, October 2004.
- S.M. Han, On the Occurrence of double eigenvalues in a Timoshenko beam, 18th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, Delaware, June 2004.
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Bending fatigue analysis of sea floor observatory moorings, The 2003 ASME Offshore Mechanics and Artic Engineering Conference, Cancun, Mexico, June 2003.
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Comparison of two seafloor observatory mooring designs, The 2003 IUTAM Symposium on Integrated Modeling of Fully Coupled Fluid-Structure Interactions Using Analysis, Computations, and Experiments, Piscataway, NJ, June 2003.
- S.M. Han and Grosenbaugh, M.A., 2003, On the design of S-tether oceanographic moorings, The Thirteenth (2003) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, May 2003
- S.M. Han and M.A. Grosenbaugh, Nonlinear vibration of a cable against a straight Obstacle, The 2002 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2002.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Nonlinear coupled transverse and axial vibration of a compliant structure: Free and forced, The 2000 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2000.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Coupled transverse and axial vibration of a compliant tower: comparison of linear and nonlinear models, 41st AIAA/ASME/ASCE/ASC SDM Conference, April 2000.
- S.M. Han and H. Benaroya, Nonlinear dynamics of an articulated tower, 13th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, ASCE, June 1999.