Keegan Moore

Dr. Keegan Moore

Contact Information:

NH W330
(330) 635-8426
kmoore@unl.edu

Personal Links:

• Research Webpage

Assistant Professor (Adjunct)

Academic Degrees

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
  • B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH

News

  1. June 2023 - Prof. Moore and his collaborator have been selected to receive a 2024 DEPSCoR Award for their proposal titled "Foundations of Defect Engineering for Dynamic Manipulation of Nonlinear Large‐amplitude Waves in Metamaterials".
  2. May 2023 - Prof. Moore has been selected to receive a 2023 NSF CAREER Award for his proposal titled "CAREER: Modeling the Loosening of Bolted Joints due to Nonlinear Dynamics of Structural Assemblies".
  3. February 2023 - Prof. Moore receives a competitive Professor Guest Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the 2023 Summer to help mentor and lead the Los Alamos Dynamics Summer School, a 10-week summer internship research program for senior undergraduates and early graduate students. 
  4. August 2022 - Congratulations to Drs. Singh and Wang for defending their dissertations successfully and completing their PhDs!
  5. March 2022 - Prof. Moore and his collaborator Prof. P. Malcolm from UNO have been funded by the National Science Foundation for their proposal titled "Collaborative Research: Detecting Gait Phases with Raised Metabolic Cost using Robotic Perturbations and System Identification for Enabling Targeted Rehabilitation Therapy".

  6. February 2022 - Prof. Moore receives a competitive ONR Summer Faculty Research Program Fellowship to work on hardware-in-the-loop structural health monitoring using reduced-order modeling.

  7. November 2021 - Prof. Moore has been selected to receive a 2022 AFOSR Young Investigator Award for his proposal titled "Digital Engineering the Test and Modeling Process: Autonomous Methods for Reconciling Test and Model Results".

  8. April 2021 - Prof. Moore receives a competitive Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship to work on wave interactions in stacked concrete slabs. Research will be carried out in partnership with the Air Force research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Eglin, FL.

  9. April 2020 - Prof. Moore receives a competitive Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship to work on wave interactions in stacked concrete slabs. Research will be carried out in partnership with the Air Force research Laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base in Eglin, FL.

  10.  November 2019 - Prof. Moore awarded a competitive slot in the Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel sponsored by Jewish National Fund. Prof. Moore will travel to Israel with other US faculty members to meet and form collaborations with Israeli professors and researchers. 

Curriculum Vitae (CV):

K. Moore CV (April 5, 2024)

Areas of Research and Professional Interest

  • Theoretical and experimental nonlinear dynamics and vibrations
  • Data-driven modeling and identification
  • Reduced-order modeling of bolted joint loosening
  • Digital engineering and autonomous methods for model validation and updating
  • Identification of unknown time series in biomechanics
  • Vibrations in next-generation aircraft
  • Non-reciprocal acoustics and nonlinear energy guiding

Research Profiles:

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Courses Taught

  • MECH 416/816: Engineering Acoustics
  • MECH 373: Engineering Dynamics
  • MECH 975: Advanced Vibrations

Selected Publications

  1. C. López, Á. Naranjo, S. Lu, K.J. Moore, “Hidden Markov Model based Stochastic Resonance and Its Application to Bearing Fault Diagnosis,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 528:116890, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2022.116890
  2. A. Singh, K.J. Moore, “Component-Scaled Signal Reconstruction for Enhanced Noise Filtration,” Journal of Vibration and Control, Published online January 12, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F10775463211051461
  3. S. Aldana, K.J. Moore, “Dynamic wave Interactions in Axial Rods with Multiple Threaded Interfaces,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 520:116625, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116625
  4. C. López, D. Wang, Á. Naranjo, K.J. Moore, “Box-Cox-Sparse-Measures-Based Blind Filtering: Understanding the Difference between the Maximum Kurtosis Deconvolution and the Minimum Entropy Deconvolution,” Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 165:108376, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymssp.2021.108376
  5. A. Singh, K.J. Moore, “An Open-source, Scalable, Low-cost Automatic Modal Hammer for Studying Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,” Experimental Techniques, 133, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40799-021-00516-7.
  6. A. Singh, K.J. Moore, “Identification of Multiple Local Nonlinear Attachments Using a Single Measurement,” Journal of Sound and Vibration, 513:115410, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2021.116410