Cho Wing Solomon To

Professor

(402) 472-1678

Ph.D., 1980, University of Southampton
M.S., 1975, University of Calgary
B.S. (Hons.), 1973, University of Southampton

Dr. To joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1996. Prior to joining UNL, he was a professor at the University of Western Ontario and as associate professor at the University of Calgary. He was a Reseach Fellow of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada from 1982-1992, and a Research Fellow at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM), the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), and a founding Fellow of the Institution of Diagnostics Engineers, U.K. He served as chair of the ASME Finite Element Techniques and Computational Technologies Technical Committee. Dr. To currently serves as the department graduate chair.

Research Interests:

Sound and Vibration Studies

Nonlinear, random and chaotic vibration, noise and vibration control of structures and machinery, signal analysis and machinery noise diagnostics.

Solid and Computational Mechanics

Linear and nonlinear finite element methods with emphasis on isotropic and laminated composite shell finite elements development and their applications; mechanical properties of nanostructures.

System Dynamics and Controls

Dynamics of multi-body systems under deterministic and stochastic excitations, stochastic optimal control of vibration in active structures and systems.

Design

Design methodology, computer-aided design.

Selected Publications:

Chen, Z. and To, C.W.S., "Responses of discretized systems under narrow band onstationary random excitations: Part I, Linear Problems & Part II, Nonlinear Problems," Journal of Sound and Vibrations, 287, 433-479, 2005.
To, C.W.S., "A statistical nonlinearization technique for multi-degrees of freedom nonlinear systems under white noise excitations", Journal of Sound and Vibration 286, 69-79, 2005.
To, C.W.S., "Analysis of laminated composite shell structures with piezoelectric components," Mechanics of Electromagnetic Solids, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 229-250, 2003.
Liu, M.L. and To, C.W.S., "Free vibration analysis of laminated composite shell structures using hybrid strain based layerwise finite elements," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, vol. 40, 83-120, 2003.
To, C.W.S., "On nonlinear elastic dynamic analysis of laminated composite plates and shells applying finite elements," Recent Research Developments in Sound and Vibration, 509-519, 2002.
To, C.W.S., "Nonlinear random responses of shell structures with spatial uncertainties," Proceedings of Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Sept. 29-Oct. 2, Montreal, Canada, DETC2002/CIE-34472, pp.1-11, 2002.
To, C.W.S., "On Computational Stochastic Structural Dynamics Applying Finite Elements," Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Vol. 8 (No. 1), pp. 3-40, 2001.
To, C.W.S. and Liu, M.L., "Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Layerwise Anistropoic Shell Structures by Hybrid Strain Based Lower Order Elements," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 37, pp. 1-34, 2001.
To, C.W.S. and O'Grady, M.A., "Response of submerged structures by the finite element-cum-boundary element method," Proceedings of Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, September 9-12, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, DETC2001/CIE-21274, pp.1-10, 2001.
To, C.W.S., Nonlinear Random Vibration: Analytical Techniques and Applications. Swets and Zeitlinder Publishers, The Netherlands, 245 pages, 2000.
To, C.W.S. and Liu, M.L., "Large Nonstationary Random Responses of Shell Structures with Geometrical and Material Nonlinearities," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 35, pp. 59-77, 2000.
To, C.W.S. and Wang, B., "Hybrid Strain Based Geometrically Nonlinear Laminated Composite Triangular Shell Finite Elements," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 33, pp. 83-124, 1999.
To, C.W.S. and Wang, B., "Transient Responses of Geometrically Nonlinear Laminated Composite Shell Structures," Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, Vol. 31, pp. 117-134, 1998.
To, C.W.S. and Li, L., "Exact Reduction by Group Theoretic Approach in Computational Nonlinear Structural Dynamics," Proceedings of Design Engineering Conferences and Computers in Engineering Conference, September 14-17, Sacramento, CA, DETC97/CIE-4447, pp. 1-12, 1997.