The Function of Horn Ridges for Impact Damping

Dr. M F Horstemeyer earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at West Virginia University, an MS in Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, and a PhD at Georgia Tech. From 1987 to 2002, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA. From 2002 to 2018, he worked as a chair professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Computational Engineering Department at Mississippi State University. In 2010, he received an Honorary Professor of Mechanical Engineering position at Xihua University in Chengdu, China, and in 2013, he received an Adjunct Professor position at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tuskegee University, Alabama. He joined Liberty University in January 2019, bringing 30 years of industrial, national laboratory, and academic experience after working at Owens Corning Fiberglas, Sandia National Labs, and Mississippi State University. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Metals, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering in the European Union. He has published over 500 journal articles, conference papers, books, and technical reports with a citation impact factor of over 60 and over 17,000 total citations; he has been invited to give over 160 lectures throughout the world; and he has mentored over 200 graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.