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John B Blottman is a Mechanical Engineer with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center’s Sensors and Sonar Systems Department. He holds a Ph. D. in acoustics from Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambrésis. He has over 20 years experience in engineering mechanics, including research and development of transducers, transduction materials and fluid-structure interaction. He is recognized nationally and internationally for contributions to numerical methods applied to sonar transducer and array performance predictions for the U.S. Navy. On sabbatical in 2010, he held the position of Visiting Scholar at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. In 2002 he held the position of visiting scientist at the NATO Undersea Research Centre. As a researcher sponsored by ONR, he has developed hybrid analytical and numerical modelling techniques for sonar array performance prediction and measurement behavior analysis. He has also developed models and constructed material testing procedures for characterizing the mechanical properties of polymer composite materials. Recent multidisciplinary research has focused on smart materials for the evolving field of bioinspiration and bioinspired design. Currently efforts are directed towards maturing novel transduction concepts for Distributed Netted Systems.Specialties: Acoustics;Electroactive polymer materials;computational structural-acoustics

Listed skills include Mathematical Modeling, Acoustics, Sensors, Simulations, and 18 others.