The Catholic University of America

John A. Judge, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering
202-319-5127 phone
202-319-5173 fax
judge@cua.edu

Education
B.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, 1996
M.S.E., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, 1998
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, The University of Michigan, 2002

Biography
John Judge’s research interests are in the area of dynamics, vibration and structural acoustics, and include the study of localization in disordered systems, the vibration of MEMS and nano-scale structures, the behavior of coupled arrays and other complex systems, and nonlinear dynamics.  Prior to joining CUA, he held a National Academy of Sciences Research Associateship at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.

Representative Publications
Judge, J. and Pratap, R.,  “Asymptotic States of a Bilinear Hysteretic Oscillator in a Fully Dissipative Phase Space,” Journal of Sound and Vibration 218(3): 548-557 (1998).

Judge, J., Pierre, C., and Mehmed, O., “Experimental Investigation of Mode Localization and Forced Response Amplitude Magnification for a Mistuned Bladed Disk,” ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power 123(4): 940-950 (2001).

Judge, J.A., Ceccio, S.L., and Pierre, C., “Traveling-Wave Excitation and Optical Measurement Techniques for Non-Contacting Investigation of Bladed Disk Dynamics,” Shock and Vibration Digest 35(3): 183-190 (2003).

Photiadis, D.M. and Judge, J.A., “Attachment Losses of High Q Oscillators,” Applied Physics Letters 85(3): 482-484 (2004).