Kingstedt
High Strain-Rate Mechanics of Materials

At the annual conference of the Society of Experimental Mechanics, Dr. Kingstedt and his PhD advisor Dr. John Lambros (UIUC) received the M. Hetenyi award for the best research paper published in Experimental Mechanics.  In their paper titled “Ultra-high speed imaging of laser-induced spallation”, images are captured at 200 million frames per second capturing the entire failure event which lasts less than 50ns. Visualization of events which occur over these timescales are particularly challenging as they require precise triggering and control, as well as the generation of large quantities of light. The paper can be found at the following link: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11340-014-9973-0