• Dr. Eric Stewart
  • Marshall Space Flight Center
  • 221 Randolph Hall
  • 3:00 p.m.
  • Faculty Host: Dr. Mayuresh Patil

Marshall Space Flight Center is leading NASA's effort to develop the Space Launch System (SLS), the launch vehicle that will take humans out of low earth orbit for the first time in since Apollo 17. The loads, dynamics, and strengths branch - of which Dr. Stewart is a part - focuses on the structures and structural dynamics issues that will affect the SLS: on-pad loads, propellant slosh, aeroelasticity, vibroacoustics, fatigue, shell buckling, modal analysis, and in-flight loads analysis. This presentation will touch many of these aspects and will dive deeper into some of the ongoing work being done by Dr. Stewart such as modal identification and modal uncertainty.

Biography:

Dr. Eric Stewart is an AST, Structural Dynamics at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. His work primarily focuses on advanced structural dynamics and building up in-house analytical tools for analysis of the Space Launch System. Prior to joining NASA in January 2014, he received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from Virginia Tech. He also has a B.S. and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida.