Publications

[2025] E. Bronstein, D. Ilssar, V. Kannan, and D. M. Kochmann “Silicon-based microscale multistable metamaterials: Microfabrication and characterization,” Experimental Mechanics [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-025-01258-y.
[2025] Charles Dorn*, Vignesh Kannan*, Ute Drechsler, and Dennis M. Kochmann “Graded phononic metamaterials: Scalable design meets scalable microfabrication.” arXiv (under review). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.01874
*authors with equal contribution.
[2025] Vignesh Kannan, Charles Dorn, Ute Drechsler, and Dennis M. Kochmann “Microscale architected materials for elastic wave guiding: Fabrication and dynamic characterization across length and time scales.” arXiv (under review). https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2507.01757.
[2024] Bastian Telgen, Vignesh Kannan, Jean-Charles Bail, Charles Dorn, Hannah Niese, and Dennis M. Kochmann “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.
[2022] Vignesh Kannan and Dennis M. Kochmann “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.
[2022] Vignesh Kannan, Morgan Trassin, and Dennis M. Kochmann “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.
[2021] Raphaël N. Glaesener, Jan-Hendrik Bastek, Frederick Gonon, Vignesh Kannan, Bastian Telgen, Ben Spöttling, Stephan Steiner, and Dennis M. Kochmann “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.
[2019] Vignesh Kannan, Xiaolong Ma, Nicholas M. Krywopusk, Laszlo J. Kecskes, Timothy P. Weihs, and K. T. Ramesh “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.
[2019] D D Mallick, M Zhao, J Parker, Vignesh Kannan, B T Bosworth, D Sagapuram, M A Foster, and K T Ramesh “Laser-driven flyers and nanosecond-resolved velocimetry for spall studies in thin metal foils,” Exp. Mech., 59(5), pp. 611–628.
[2018] Vignesh Kannan, Kavan Hazeli, and K. T. Ramesh “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.
[2018] Caleb J. Hustedt, Paul K. Lambert, Vignesh Kannan, E. L. Huskins-Retzlaff, D. T. Casem, M. W. Tate, H. T. Philipp, A. R. Woll, P. Purohit, J. T. Weiss, S. M. Gruner, K. T. Ramesh, and T. C. Hufnagel “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
Accepted: 16 April 2018; Published: 24 April 2018.
[2018] Vignesh Kannan 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.
[2018] Meng Zhao, Vignesh Kannan, and K. T. Ramesh “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
Accepted manuscript available, published in final form in Acta Materialia.
[2014] P. K. Lambert, C. J. Hustedt, K. S. Vecchio, E. L. Huskins, D. T. Casem, S. M. Gruner, M. W. Tate, H. T. Philipp, A. R. Woll, P. Purohit, J. T. Weiss, Vignesh Kannan, K. T. Ramesh, P. Kenesei, J. S. Okasinski, J. Almer, M. Zhao, A. G. Ananiadis, and T. C. Hufnagel “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.