Faculty
Gangbing Song
Director of Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory, Moores Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Email gsong [at] uh.edu
Phone 713-743-4525
Engineering Expertise:
Controls: Dynamics, Robotics, Active Vibration Controls, Robust Controls, Adaptive Controls, Passive Vibration Damping Using Smart Materials
Structural Health Monitoring: Health Monitoring of Civil Structures Using Smart Materials
Smart Materials: Shape Memory Alloys, Piezoelectric Materials, Fiber Optic Sensors, Carbon Nanofibers, Magnetorheological Fluids
Subsea Engineering Experience:
Subsea System Design
- Subsea Machine Diagnostics and Performance Monitoring
- Subsea Systems Integration
- Subsea Structural Health Monitoring, including Subsea Valves, Risers, Pipelines
- Pipeline Corrosion Monitoring
- Smart Materials for Sensing and Actuation Applications in Subsea Environments
- Subsea Systems Integration
Control of
- Subsea Blowout Preventers
- Subsea Jumper/Riser Vibrations Using Pounding Tuned Mass Dampers
- Subsea Hydraulic Accumulators Using Shape Memory Alloys
- Subsea Valves Using Magnetorheological Fluids
- Subsea Vibrations in General