Publications

*We try to keep this page updated as regularly as possible. However, we might get caught up doing fun experiments and lose track at times. Feel free to refer to my Google Scholar page if you would like a complete list of publications.

Dorn C.*, Kannan V.*, Drechsler, U. and Kochmann, D.M. (2025) “Graded phononic metamaterials: Scalable design meets scalable microfabrication.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.01874.

Kannan, V., Dorn, C., Drechsler, U. and Kochmann, D.M. (2025) “Microscale architected materials for elastic wave guiding: Fabrication and dynamic characterization across length and time scales.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.01757.

Telgen, B., Kannan, V., Bail, J.-C., Dorn, C., Niese, H. and Kochmann, D.M. (2024) “Rainbow trapping of out-of-plane mechanical waves in spatially variant beam lattices,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 191, p. 105762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2024.105762.

Kannan, V. and Kochmann, D.M. (2022) “Rate-dependent ferroelectric switching in barium titanate ceramics from modified PUND experiments,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 57, p. 101898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101898.

Kannan, V., Trassin, M. and Kochmann, D.M. (2022) “Kinetics of ferroelectric switching in poled barium titanate ceramics: Effects of electrical cycling rate,” Materialia, 25, p. 101553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2022.101553.

Glaesener, R.N., Bastek, J.-H., Gonon, F., Kannan, V., Telgen, B., Spöttling, B., Steiner, S. and Kochmann, D.M. (2021) “Viscoelastic truss metamaterials as time-dependent generalized continua,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 156, p. 104569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104569.

Kannan, V., Ma, X., Krywopusk, N.M., Kecskes, L.J., Weihs, T.P. and Ramesh, K.T. (2019) “The effect of strain rate on the mechanisms of plastic flow and failure of an ECAE AZ31B magnesium alloy,” Journal of Materials Science, 54(20), pp. 13394–13419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-019-03838-5.

Mallick, D.D., Zhao, M., Parker, J., Kannan, V., Bosworth, B.T., Sagapuram, D., Foster, M.A. and Ramesh, K.T. (2019) “Laser-driven flyers and nanosecond-resolved velocimetry for spall studies in thin metal foils,” Exp. Mech., 59(5), pp. 611–628.

Kannan, V., Hazeli, K. and Ramesh, K.T. (2018) “The mechanics of dynamic twinning in single crystal magnesium,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 120, pp. 154–178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2018.03.010.

Hustedt, C.J., Lambert, P.K., Kannan, V., Huskins-Retzlaff, E.L., Casem, D.T., Tate, M.W., Philipp, H.T., Woll, A.R., Purohit, P., Weiss, J.T., Gruner, S.M., Ramesh, K.T. and Hufnagel, T.C. (2018) “In situ time-resolved measurements of extension twinning during dynamic compression of polycrystalline magnesium,” Journal of Dynamic Behavior of Materials, 4(2), pp. 222–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40870-018-0152-8.

Kannan, V. (2018) Twinning and the dynamic behavior of magnesium and its alloys. PhD thesis. The Johns Hopkins University. http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/61443.

Zhao, M., Kannan, V. and Ramesh, K. T. (2018) “The dynamic plasticity and dynamic failure of a magnesium alloy under multiaxial loading,” Acta Materialia, 154, pp. 124–136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2018.05.012.

Lambert, P.K., Hustedt, C.J., Vecchio, K.S., Huskins, E.L., Casem, D.T., Gruner, S.M., Tate, M.W., Philipp, H.T., Woll, A.R., Purohit, P., Weiss, J.T., Kannan, V., Ramesh, K.T., Kenesei, P., Okasinski, J.S., Almer, J., Zhao, M., Ananiadis, A.G. and Hufnagel, T.C. (2014) “Time-resolved x-ray diffraction techniques for bulk polycrystalline materials under dynamic loading,” Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(9), p. 093901. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4893881.