NLD news · October 11, 2021 Updated October 2026. The 2021 templates below are archived. Use the NLD brand 2026 files instead (URI sign-in required): PowerPoint, Keynote, LaTeX (reports, proposals, letters, beamer), logos, icons and the figure guide. Archived 2021 templates for letters and presentations in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Apple Pages and Keynote.
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A new visual identity, slide and LaTeX templates, lab icons and a figure guide for Python, MATLAB and Mathematica.
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NLD news · August 31, 2026 Collin Treacy (MS’24) is currently a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan is a Sandia fellow in the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). He was drawn to Sandia by the opportunity to work with engineer Carlos Michelen on differentiable hydrodynamics.
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NLD news · May 7, 2026 Dalton has been selected as an outstanding member of the University community to receive a Research and Scholarship Excellence Award in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering from the University of Rhode Island. The President of the University, the Division of Research and Economic Development, and the URI Associate […]
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NLD news · July 13, 2023 Our paper “Smooth mode decomposition: Theory and its applications in full-field output-only modal analysis” was published in Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing. Highlights Smooth mode decomposition (SMD) identifies the normal modes from system outputs. The spatial differential operator enables SMD to identify smooth modal structures SMD-identified modes approximate normal […]
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NLD news · July 13, 2023 Our paper titled “Geometry-informed phase space warping for reliable fatigue damage monitoring” was published online in Structural Health Monitoring. Here’s the abstract: This paper presents a new fatigue damage detection and monitoring approach using a geometry-informed implementation of phase space warping (PSW). The proposed method is based on continuous-time […]
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NLD news · October 21, 2022 The apps Notion and Obsidian are becoming indispensable tools for research, archival, and manipulation of personal knowledge and projects. In our lab, we focus on these two apps, but some others have similar capabilities, and you may find they work better for you in certain cases. Notion Tutorials Using […]
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NLD news · February 10, 2022 Dalton has presented his first paper on Subband Decomposition-Based Vibration Mode Identification at the IMAC-XL conference in Orlando, Florida on February 10, 2022. Hewenxuan‘s paper on Optimal Parameter Selection Guidelines for Phase Space Warping was also presented at the IMAC-XL.
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NLD news · October 27, 2021 Updated October 2026. The lab now uses the NLD LaTeX package (nld.cls) for reports, proposals and letters, and a beamer theme for talks. Get it from the LaTeX folder of the NLD brand files (URI sign-in required). For figures, follow the NLD figure preparation guide (PDF). At the NLD, […]
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NLD news · October 1, 2021 Written in 2021 by Hewenxuan Li. The journal data and some of the advice are now out of date. For current practice, see the lab’s writing guide. Hewenxuan Li 1. Introduction It is vital for researchers to present their work and convey their ideas to help inspire other researchers […]
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