Christopher Green

Department of Mechanical Engineering

E-mail: cwgreen@vcu.edu

Phone: (804) 827-4013

Fax: (804) 828-4269

601 West Main Street, Room 305

P.O. Box 843068

Richmond, Virginia 23284 
 

Education
        ·         M.S. Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University 2006
        ·         M.Ed. Adult Education, Virginia Commonwealth University 2003
        ·         B.A., Applied Physics, Christopher Newport University May 1998

Research Interests
        ·         Smart Materials
        ·         Energy Harvesting
        ·         Embedded Systems
        ·         Wireless Sensors

Membership
        ·         American Society Of Mechanical Engineers
        ·         The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
        ·         National Technical Association
        ·         National Society Of Black Engineers

Publications

• Harvesting Energy Using a Thin Unimorph Pre-Stressed Benders: Geometrical Effects Mossi, K., Green, C., Ounaies, Z., Hughes, E. Journal of International Materials Systems and Structures, 16: 249 – 261, Mar 2005.

• Scavenging Energy From Piezoelectric Materials For Wireless Sensor Applications, Green, C., Mossi, K., and Bryant, R., ASME, Proceedings of IMECE05, 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida USA, IMECE2005-80426, November 5 -11, 2005.

• Masters Thesis - Low Frequency Energy Harvesting Using Clamped Pre-stressed Unimorph Diaphragms For Wireless Sensor Applications, Virginia Commonwealth University, December 2006.

• Studying The Effects Of Temperature On Energy Harvesting Using Prestressed Piezoelectric Diaphragms, Poorna Mane, Karla Mossi, Christopher Green, Robert Bryant Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional and Composite Materials 2007, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6526, 65260K, (2007)