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He pored over textbooks of mathematics, physics, applied mechanics and hydraulics, but was passionate about literature, too.
Shih-Ho Chao, Associate Professor of Structural Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Texas Arlington This article was originally published on The Conversation.
After graduating from a military university in the southwestern city of Chongqing, he moved to the United States and earned a doctorate in applied mechanics from the University of Michigan.
"If all plastic is removed from the world, children may get more diseases from polluted dishes and forks," said Atsuhiko Isobe, a professor at the Research Institute for Applied Mechanics at Kyushu University, who has studied marine plastic waste.
James Pikul, a co-author of the study and a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, said his team came up with the idea while trying to find new ways of making robots more independent.
The mission of the Applied Mechanics Division is to foster fundamental research in, and intelligent application of, applied mechanics.
The Applied Mechanics Award is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division, of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), "to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education." The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME Congress. In 2008, the Award was renamed to the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award.
The Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division, of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME Congress. In 2008, this award was renamed to the Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award.
He is a member of the Eshelby Award Committee (2012-); the US National Committee of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2018-2022), the Pi Tau Sigma Awards Committee (2018-2022) and the Award Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division (2020-2025), ASME.
This conference was first organized by MMSP Chair in 1993 and was subsequently conducted yearly. In 2001 Trusov was elected to Russian National Committee on the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He took part in the VIII All-Russia Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Wu obtained his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1977, and master's and doctoral degrees in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University in the United States. He was a professor within the Institute of Applied Mechanics at National Taiwan University.
1970–1993: Advisory Editor of the Journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 1980–1992: Representative of the Netherlands in the General Assembly of the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. 1976: Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the 14th Int. Congress of Theor.
Thomas Reif Kane (March 23, 1924 - February 16, 2019) was a professor emeritus of applied mechanics at Stanford University.
He is known as mechanician, who made seminal contributions to many branches of applied mechanics, applied physics, and engineering sciences.
Archive of Applied Mechanics serves as a platform to communicate original research of scholarly value in all branches of theoretical and applied mechanics, i.e., in solid and fluid mechanics, dynamics and vibrations. It focuses on continuum mechanics in general, structural mechanics, biomechanics, micro- and nano-mechanics as well as hydrodynamics. In particular, the following topics are emphasised: thermodynamics of materials, material modeling, multi-physics, mechanical properties of materials, homogenisation, phase transitions, fracture and damage mechanics, vibration, wave propagation experimental mechanics as well as machine learning techniques in the context of applied mechanics.
He is a founder and past President of USACM and IACM, and past Chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.
Dusan Krajcinovic (died 2007) was a mechanics scientist. He was past member and chair of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME. He served a term on the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He authored a review paper on damage mechanicsKrajcinovic, D., Damage mechanics (1989) Mechanics of Materials, 8(2-3), pp. 117-197.
Rice, J. R. (1977) The localization of plastic deformation. In Koiter, W.T., ed., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Amsterdam, North-Holland. 207-220.
Burgers, J. M. (1948). A mathematical model illustrating the theory of turbulence. In Advances in applied mechanics (Vol. 1, pp. 171-199). Elsevier.
On 17 September 1864, he was certified as an applied mechanics professor and worked for a salary of thirty-five dollars a month.
Albert Edward Green (11 November 1912, London – 12 August 1999) was a British applied mathematician and research scientist in theoretical and applied mechanics.
Every year, at the Applied Mechanics Dinner at the ASME winter annual meeting, the Timoshenko Medalist of the year delivers a lecture. Taken as a whole, these lectures provide a long perspective of the field of applied mechanics, as well as capsules of the lives of extraordinary individuals. A project has been initiated to post all Timoshenko Medal Lectures online.
Batmanathan Dayanand Reddy (born 10 March 1953) is a South African scientist. He holds the South African Research Chair in Computational and Applied Mechanics in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town, and is the Director of the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM) there. He is President of the International Science Council.
Franz Grashof (11 July 1826 – 26 October 1893) was a German engineer. He was a professor of Applied Mechanics at the Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe.
H. Bénard (1927). Proceedings of the Second International Congress for Applied Mechanics (Orrell Füssli Verlag, Zürich), pp. 495–501, 502–503, and plate 27.
The mission of a Technical Committee is to promote a field in Applied Mechanics. The principal approach for a Technical Committee to accomplish this mission is to organize symposia at the Summer and Winter Meetings. Technical Committees generally meet at the Winter Annual Meeting and the Summer Meeting; they may also schedule special meetings. There are 17 Technical Committees in the Applied Mechanics Division.
IX International Congress on Applied Mechanics (Vol. 3, pp. 342-343). and by W.W. Wood in 1957Wood, W. W. (1957). Boundary layers whose streamlines are closed.
The Batchelor Prize award, is named in his honour and is awarded every four years at the meeting of the International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
From 1972 to 1984, he served on the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and was chairman of the Committee in 1979-1980. During the period 1978-1984, he was a member of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. His last appointment was to the ASME Committee on Honors (1986–1994), of which he was chairman from 1991 to 1994.
Sir Hugh Ford FREng FRS (16 July 1913 – 28 May 2010) was a British engineer. He was Professor of Applied Mechanics at Imperial College London from 1951 to 1978.
" Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 55(1), pp. 181-197, 1986.Guo, B. and Babuška, I. "The h-p version of the finite element method. Part 1.
With Teng Li, Suo co-founded iMechanica, the web of mechanics and mechanicians. In 2015, iMechanica has over 20,000 registered users. He is a member of the Executive Committee (2005-2010, Chair 2010) of the Applied Mechanics Division, of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and is a member at large of the US National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2006-2012). Suo is a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award.
Mechatronics is a combination of the three disciplines of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering, which aims to achieve less complicated, cheaper and more intelligent mechanical systems. The current programs of the department of Mechanical Engineering include a BSc program in Mechanical Engineering, Master’s programs in Mechanical Engineering (Applied Mechanics and Designing), Energy Conversion and Mechatronics as well as PhD programs in Mechanical Engineering (Applied Mechanics and Designing) and Energy Conversion.
Tezduyar chaired the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2011, and was awarded its Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2018. In 2019, he was awarded the Computational Mechanics Award by the Asian Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics. Since 2017, in addition to his position at Rice University, he has been working as a Professor at the Science and Engineering Faculty of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan.
He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1990 "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
For complex loading schemes, Miner's linear superposition damage lawM. A. Miner, "Cumulative damage in fatigue", Journal of applied mechanics, vol. 12, pp. 159-164, 1945 is employed to calculate accumulated damage.
Porfiri earned his Ph.D. in engineering mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He also holds a Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Toulon.
The Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award is an award given annually by the Applied Mechanics Division, of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), "in recognition of an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics through practice, research, teaching, and/or outstanding leadership" The Award is presented at the Applied Mechanics Annual Dinner at the ASME IMECE Congress. In 2020 the Award was elevated to the society level and renamed Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Medal.
The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as the highest international award in the field of applied mechanics, was established in 1957 in honor of Stephen Timoshenko, world-renowned authority in the field. The Medal "commemorates his contributions as author and teacher." The actual award is a bronze medal and honorarium.
Michael Eckert (2006) The Dawn of Fluid Dynamics, page 99, Wiley-VCH :The Delft congress was the first in a series of International Congresses of Applied Mechanics. The second was held in 1926 in Zurich. Afterwards these congresses were convened in four-year intervals: 1930 in Stockholm, 1934 in Cambridge, England, 1938 in Cambridge, USA. After the Second World War the tradition of these conferences was resumed under the umbrella of an official organization, the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM).
The Daniel C. Drucker medal was instituted in 1997 by the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Drucker Medal is conferred in recognition of distinguished contributions to the fields of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. The award is given in honor of Daniel C. Drucker, who was internationally known for contributions to the theory of plasticity and its application to analysis and design in metal structures. The recipient is given a medal and an honorarium.
From 2000-2004, Dr. Gledhill served on South Africa's National Research Foundation panels. She was President of the South African Council for Automation and Computation from 1995 to 1996. From 2000-2008, she served as President of the South African Association for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Chair of the South African National Committee for International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). From 2006-2012, she was a member of IUTAM Working Party 9 on Education and Capacity Building.
Warner Tjardus Koiter (Amsterdam, June 16, 1914 - Delft, September 2, 1997) was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.
The Mechanical Engineering Department of Govt. Polytechnic College Satna was established in the year 1991. It has faculty from various backgrounds like from Industry R&D;, and Teaching. The laboratories are applied Mechanics Lab.
Cockroaches always have three legs in synchronous contact with the ground during movement.Günther, M., and Weihmann, T. 2011. The Load Distribution Among Three Legs on the Wall: Model Predictions for Cockroaches. Archive of Applied Mechanics.
Leissa became president of the American Academy of Mechanics for 1987–88. He was elected as a Fellow of ASME in 1983. He was editor-in-chief of Applied Mechanics Reviews from 1993 to 2008.
The International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) is an affiliation of about 500 mechanicians in about 50 countries, and involving about 20 associated organizations, including the International Council for Science (ICSU). The proceedings of symposia organized by IUTAM are published as Procedia IUTAM.Procedia IUTAM from Elsevier The IUTAM was organized in 1946 at the sixth International Congress of Applied Mechanics in Paris. The ICAM first met in 1924 at Delft, Netherlands, under the guidance of Jan Burgers, with 214 participants from 21 countries.
N. O. Myklestad, "The Concept of Complex Damping," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1952, 19 (3) 20-30. N. O. Myklestad and Kent L. Lawrence. "Transient Beam Response Calculations Using Euler's Method." AIAA Journal (1967): 376-378.
S.), and Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (M.S., Ph.D.). As of 2014, U.S. News and World Report ranked the program the sixth-best US school for undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program and fifth-best graduate Mechanical Engineering program.
Zhao Yueyu (; born September 1961) is a Chinese educator who served as President of Hunan University since September 2011. Zhao was an executive director of the 8th and 9th Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Sir Richard Vynne Southwell, FRS (2 July 1888 – 9 December 1970) was a British mathematician who specialised in applied mechanics as an engineering science academic.Sir Richard Southwell, MA, LLD, FRS: Rector 1942–48, Imperial College, London, UK.
Journal of Sound and Vibrations 150,191–201. who modeled the damage as an elastic hinge and by Thompson (1949),Thompson, W.T., 1949. Vibration of slender bars with discontinuities in stiffness. Journal of Applied Mechanics 16, 203–207.
He created a new concept of drawing perspectives. Supported by Walter Bernhardt, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics at Wichita State University, Kansas, his ideas were successfully implemented as mathematical formulae. Programmers subsequently entered these into the computer.
The Koiter Medal Committee consists of the five recent Koiter Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Koiter Medal Committee. See the list of current members of the Committee.
In 1877, Cesare Razzaboni, who was organizing a school of engineering (Scuola di applicazione per ingegneri) in Bologna, invited Canevazzi to take charge of applied mechanics in civil engineering. In that academic post at Bologna, Canevazzi in 1880 was appointed to the chair of bridge construction and civil engineering hydraulics and also to the chair of applied mechanics in civil engineering. He held the two academic chairs until his death. In 1889 he was appointed the director of the academic department to which his two academic chairs were subordinated.
Professor Amabili serves as Contributing Editor for International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics (Elsevier). He is also Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluids and Structures, Elsevier, Applied Mechanics Reviews, ASME, and Journal of Vibration and Acoustics, ASME. He is member of the Editorial Board of several journals, including the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Elsevier. He is the secretary of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Chair of the ASME Technical Committee Dynamics and Control of Systems and Structures.
Lee received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University in 1981. After serving his two years mandatory military service in Taiwan's Air Force, he continued his graduate studies with a fellowship at Cornell University in New York, where he received a M.S. and Ph.D., majoring in theoretical & applied mechanics, with a minor in physics. During his PhD studies at Cornell, he developed piezoelectric modal sensors and actuators.C. K. Lee, and F. C. Moon, "Modal Sensors/Actuators," Transactions of the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol.
The Drucker Medal Committee consists of the five recent Drucker Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Drucker Medal Committee. See the list of current members of the Committee.
The Timoshenko Medal Committee consists of the five recent Timoshenko Medalists, the five members of the executive committee of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division (AMD), and the five recent past chairs of the AMD. See the list of current members of the Committee Upon receiving recommendations from the international community of applied mechanics, the Committee nominates a single medalist every year. This nomination is subsequently approved by the ASME; no case has been reported that the ASME has ever overruled a nomination of the Timoshenko Medal Committee.
Applied mechanics is a branch of the physical sciences and the practical application of mechanics. Pure mechanics describes the response of bodies (solids and fluids) or systems of bodies to external behavior of a body, in either a beginning state of rest or of motion, subjected to the action of forces.Engineering Mechanics (statics and dynamics) - Dr.N.Kottiswaran Applied mechanics, bridges the gap between physical theory and its application to technology. It is used in many fields of engineering, especially mechanical engineering and civil engineering; in this context, it is commonly referred to as engineering mechanics.
Hence the idea of ISIMM came naturally, a society with an impressive constitution and with the backing of a truly international group of scientists from all over the world, even though the European element was predominant.Müller, Ingo. ISIMM: Past and Present, Retrieved on 2 November 2016 It its early years, the Society represented a European counterpart of The Society for Natural Philosophy founded in 1963 by Clifford Truesdell. ISIMM is presently a member of IUTAM International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics).
Bénard's later work on convection in shear flows is included in the comprehensive review by R. E. Kelly.R. E. Kelly, 1994: The onset and development of thermal convection in fully developed shear flows. Advances in Applied Mechanics, vol.
In fluid dynamics, the Burgers vortex is an exact solution to the Navier–Stokes equations governing viscous flow, named after Jan Burgers.Burgers, J. M. (1948). A mathematical model illustrating the theory of turbulence. In Advances in applied mechanics (Vol.
Notably, in a parallel development, the Material point methods were developed around the same timeD. Sulsky, Z., Chen, H. Schreyer (1994). a Particle Method for History-Dependent Materials. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (118) 1, 179-196.
Parameter analysis of the differential model of hysteresis. Journal of applied mechanics ASME, 71, pp. 342–349 that the parameters of the Bouc–Wen model are functionally redundant. Removing this redundancy is best achieved by setting \textstyle A=1.
Abramson was elected honorary member of the ASME in 1979, and obtained the ASME Honorary Member (Silver Medal). In 1988 the ASME also awarded him the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, and in 1990 the ASME Medal (Gold Medal).
Katia Bertoldi is the William and Ami Kuan Danoff Professor of Applied Mechanics at Harvard University. Her research has been highlighted by many news sources including the BBC, and as of June 2020 had been cited over 11,000 times.
In the early 2000s the orbital 'cosmoplane' () was proposed by Russia's Institute of Applied Mechanics as a passenger transport. According to researchers, it could take about 20 minutes to fly from Moscow to Paris, using hydrogen and oxygen-fueled engines.
In 1890, there were 6,000 engineers in civil, mining, mechanical and electrical. There was no chair of applied mechanism and applied mechanics at Cambridge until 1875, and no chair of engineering at Oxford until 1907. Germany established technical universities earlier.
Following his doctoral graduation in 1966, Mow went on for a postdoctoral fellowship in applied mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University with Joseph B. Keller. One year later, he joined the Applied Mechanics and Mathematics Group at Bell Labs working on computer programs for U.S. sonar detection of submarines off the East Coast of America. He returned to RPI in 1969 as Associate Professor of Applied Mechanics. In 1976, he was promoted to the rank of Professor, and received a visiting scientist position at the Skeletal Research Laboratory of Harvard Medical School with Melvin J. Glimcher.
George Batchelor The Batchelor Prize is an award presented once every four years by the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for outstanding research in fluid dynamics. The prize of $25,000 is sponsored by the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and presented at the International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM). The research recognised by the Prize will normally have been published during the ten-year period prior to the award to ensure that the work is of current interest. The award is named in honour of George Batchelor, an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.
Since 2011, he has been the editor-in-chief of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters. Huang is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Applied Mechanics (Transactions of ASME), and has transformed the journal to be the fastest one in mechanics. For example, among all papers submitted in 2017, the average time from submission to final decision (i.e., reject or accept) is less than 16 days, which include the time for review and the time for the authors’ revision (if needed). He was the president of the Society of Engineering Sciences (2014); the Chair (2019-2020) and a member (2015-2020) of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division, a member of the Drucker Medal Committee (2014) and Nadai Medal Committee (2017-2019), ASME; a member of the Awards Committee (2016-2018) and Nomination Committee (2016-2018) of the Engineering Mechanics Institute, and Bazant Medal Committee (2020), American Society of Civil Engineers.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Engineering Index, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Applied Mechanics Reviews, Current Contents, COMPENDEX, Scopus, INSPEC. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 6.039 and a 5-year impact factor of 6.565.
He attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he received his PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics in 1985. He also attended the Open University: Milton Keynes, in Great Britain, where he earned a Bachelor of Laws, with honors, in 2005.
Harold Malcolm Westergaard (9 October 1888 in Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 June 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States) was a Danish structural engineer. He was Professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois in Urbana and of Civil Engineering at Harvard.
Luo received his B.S. in mechanical engineering (1984), M.S. in engineering mechanics (1990) in China, and Ph.D. in applied mechanics (1996) in Canada. During 1996-1998, he was an NSERC (National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada) post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.
"Biocompatible Material is Tougher than Cartilage". Today's Medical Developments. September 13, 2012 He won the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal and the Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics, both from ASME. He received the William Prager Medal, Society of Engineering Sciences.
1958: A theory of elastic, plastic and creep deformations of an initially isotropic material, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 25, No.4, Dec. 1958. 1960: Thermodynamic foundations of the theory of deformation, Proc. Durand Centennial Conference on Aeronautics and Astronautics, Pergamon Press Ltd., 1960.
From 2002 to 2006, Kirkhorn studied both Economics at The Wharton School and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology. In 2013, he received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Sabersky continued his studies at Caltech. He took a vibrations course from Donald E. Hudson, professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics. Sabersky took a course in mathematics from Abe M. Zarem. Additional graduate professors included Donald S. Clark, Robert C. Bromfield and Peter Kyropoulos.
The journal had a 2018 impact factor of 2.141 according to the Journal Citation Reports. It is indexed in Inspec, PASCAL, Current Contents/Engineering Computing and Technology, Science Citation Index, Chemical Abstracts, Mass Spectrometry Bulletin, Engineering Index/Compendex, Applied Mechanics Reviews, and VINITI Database RAS.
During his last years, Professor Kirpichov returned to Saint Petersburg, where he taught applied mechanics in Saint Petersburg Technological Institute. He remained a Honored Professor of Kiev Polytechnic Institute until the end of his life. He was buried at the Lutheran Volkovo Cemetery, Saint Petersburg.
Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge (March 18, 1904 – March 19, 1990) was a German engineer, and Professor of Applied Mechanics at Stanford University.J.J. O'Connor and E.F. Robertson. "Gottfried Wilhelm Flügge," at history.mcs.st- and.ac.uk. School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, 2015. Accessed 2017-09-20.
Yuan was born in Tonghua, Jilin Province. In September 1980, Yuan graduated from Beijing Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, majoring in aircraft design and applied mechanics. In July 1984 he joined the Ministry of Aerospace Industry. After graduation, he worked as a graduate research student.
Gupta has been a faculty member in the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, DelhiFaculty website, Applied Mechanics, IIT Delhi \- N. K. Gupta IIT web site since 1971 and has been a full professor since 1987 and retired in 2005. He continued as Henry Ford Chair Emeritus Professor from 2005 to 2010, and then as Emeritus Professor till 2011. He was invited as Mercator Guest Professor at RWTH Aachen, supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany, for one year (2011–2012). Professor Gupta continued to work as "INSA (Indian National Science Academy) Senior Scientist" at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, from 2012 to 2017.
Professor Anand has mentored over 25 Ph.D. students during his years as an educator at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018. In addition to his work at the university, he has served as the Program Director for the Mechanics of Materials Program , as well as the Manufacturing Processes Program in the Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation from 1989 to 1991. Further, from 1994 to 1999 he was a member of the Executive Committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and served as the chair of the Applied Mechanics Division in 1999.
Bordovsky, A. M. Analysis of the random process of loading the oil pipeline / A. M. Bordovsky, V. V. Vorobyov // Mechanics-99: materials of the II Belarusian Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Minsk, June 28–30, 1999. – Gomel: IMMS NASB, 1999. – P. 271–273. (in Russian).
Accessed 2017-09-23. Drucker was known as an authority on the theory of plasticity in the field of applied mechanics. His key contributions to the field of plasticity include the concept of material stability described by the Drucker stability postulates and the Drucker–Prager yield criterion.
Inglis was the president of the 1934 International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics held at Cambridge, one of the series of Congresses that gave rise to the IUTAM. He was a proposer for the Royal Society fellowship of Andrew Robertson, the mechanical engineer, in 1936.
Janssen then became a professor at Herk-De-Stad where he taught computer science, economics, technology and applied mechanics. His wife left him in 2006, leaving Janssen to live alone. While in Loksbergen, neighbours would sometimes find him walking alone at night while everyone was sleeping.
He Guowei (; born March 1963) is a Chinese physicist and chairman of the Academic Committee in the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He is an associated editor for Acta Mechanica Sinica and the deputy editor-in-chief for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters.
Petroski was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Park Slope and Cambria Heights, Queens. In 1963, he received his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College. He graduated with his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 1968.
Wakata was born in Ōmiya, Saitama, Japan, earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1987, a Master of Science degree in Applied Mechanics in 1989, and a Doctorate in Aerospace Engineering in 2004 from Kyushu University. He worked as a structural engineer for Japan Airlines.
Nikolai Nikolaevich Yanenko () (22 May 1921 – 16 January 1984) was a Soviet mathematician and academician. He was known for his contributions to computational mathematics and fluid mechanics. He served as Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Farris received a BS degree in mechanical engineering in 1982 from Rice University and a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics at Northwestern University in 1986. Farris is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 2001 and a Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2009.
Specific volume as a function of pressure predicted by the Tait-Murnaghan equation of state. Another popular isothermal equation of state that goes by the name "Tait equation"Thompson, P. A., & Beavers, G. S. (1972). Compressible-fluid dynamics. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 39, 366.Kedrinskiy, V. K. (2006).
025601 and polymer.Kramer, S., Beiermann, B., Davis, D., Sottos, N., White, S., Moore, J., Characterization of mechanochemically active polymers using combined photoelasticity and fluorescence measurements, SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, 2010, 2, pp. 896–907. Dentistry utilizes photoelasticity to analyze strain in denture materials.
After studying Applied Mechanics at Technicum (School of Engineering) in Geneva, Ernest Henry worked starting in 1906 on marine engines for Picker of Geneva, then moved to Paris in 1909, serving the Motos Labor manufacturing company (marine and aviation engines), before joining the ranks of Peugeot in 1911.
Gábor Stépán (; born December 13, 1953 in Budapest), Hungarian professor of applied mechanics, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, associate member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), former dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Won the Széchenyi Prize in 2011 and the Thomas K. Caughey Dynamics Award in 2015 (ASME Applied Mechanics Division). His research fields include nonlinear vibrations, delay-differential equations, and stability theory. He was elected as a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2017, "for contributions to the theory and analysis of delayed dynamical systems and their applications".
His nomination reads: He was awarded the 2016 Batchelor Prize of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics for his research into active matter fluid mechanics., and the Institute of Physics Rosalind Franklin Medal and Prize for revealing the physical basis for fluid motion in and around active cells.
In Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Applied Mechanics (1930), Vol. 1. Stockholm: Ab. Sveriges Litografiska Tryckerier, p. 120. In 1900–1901, Bénard presented the results of this work (and the associated optical methods) in four different journals, the Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences,H.
He became the first student to complete Imperial's two-year course in applied mechanics in 10 months, and also graduated first in his class. Kumar attended business school at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a self-designed major on the management of technology and international business.
Paris was trained at Lehigh University in applied mechanics. He was a faculty associate at Boeing in the summer of 1955, where he investigated the Comet fatigue (material) failure. His first paper on fracture mechanics was famously rejected by top journals. Paris joined Washington University in St. Louis in 1976.
Beginning in 1948, he was Reader in Applied Mechanics at Imperial College. He was president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers from 1977 to 1978. Ford was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1967 and knighted in 1975. In 1970, he received the A. A. Griffith Medal and Prize.
Mechanics, Cambridge, p. 228. generalized Norton's law to the multi-axial case. Concepts such as the normality of plastic flow to the yield surface and flow rules for plasticity were introduced by Prandtl (1924)Prandtl, L. (1924) Proceedings of the 1st International Congress on Applied Mechanics, Delft. and Reuss (1930).
In November, he passed his technical exams, achieving 98 percent in aero engine mechanics and 96 percent in meteorology while scoring 95 percent in applied mechanics. The basic flight training came to an end and Pattle scored 88.5 percent. His advanced training began in November 1936 on the Gloster Gauntlet.
Puri studied at St. Xavier's School, Delhi from 1964-76. Thereafter, he graduated with a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering of Delhi University, Delhi in 1982. He then completed his M.S. (1984) and Ph.D (1987) degrees in engineering science (applied mechanics) from University of California, San Diego.
John Wilder Miles (December 1, 1920 – October 20, 2008) was a research professor emeritus of applied mechanics and geophysics at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. He was well regarded for his pioneering work in theoretical fluid mechanics, and made fundamental contributions to understanding how wind energy transfers to waves.
Masanobu Shinozuka (December 23, 1930 – November 5, 2018) was a Japanese applied mechanics expert in earthquake and structural engineering. Shinozuka's research focuses on field theory and risk assessment methodology in civil engineering.Masanobu Shinozuka Retrieved 2018-11-12. His works have been applied numerously in earthquake engineering in buildings, bridges, lifeline and environmental systems.
Ben-Hain and ElishakoffBen Haim Y. and Elishakoff I., Convex Models of Uncertainty in Applied Mechanics, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990 (1990), Elishakoff et al.I. Elishakoff, I. Lin Y.K. and Zhu L.P., Probabilistic and Convex Modeling of Acoustically Excited Structures, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1994 (1994) applied convex analysis to model uncertainty.
The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics (est. 1871) offers programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department currently has twenty-two full-time faculty members. In addition, the department enjoyed great relations with corporate partners and has many Faculty Lecturers, Associate Professors, and researchers working with students in the department.
Lallit Anand Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on solid mechanics and large deformation plasticity theory. He has received numerous awards and accolades for his significant contributions to the field of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering.
In addition to being the founder and longtime editor of Physics of Fluids, he served on a large number of national and international committees, e.g., to name but a few, the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM), the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society of which he was the chairman and secretary on numerous occasions. He published extensively in the field of turbulent flows and pioneered the application of high-speed digital computing methods to the measurement of turbulence and the mathematical modeling of urban pollution. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He returned to Oxford University as a research assistant to Sir Richard Southwell FRS, working on numerical methods for applied mechanics. He contributed to Southwell's relaxation method. Christopherson was the first to apply the method in the solution of field differential equations, which later became the most important application. He gained his DPhil in 1941.
The Archive of Applied Mechanics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1929 as Ingenieur-Archiv by R. Grammel. It obtained its current name in 1991 and is published by Springer. The journal covers research findings on the performance of construction materials. The editor in chief is Jörg Schröder (University of Duisburg-Essen).
The Professorship of Engineering is a professorship at the University of Cambridge, and the senior professorship in the University's Department of Engineering. Founded in 1875 as the Professorship of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, it was renamed to the Professorship of Mechanical Sciences in 1934, and then to Engineering in 1966. The professorship is currently vacant.
Edmund Titus Cranch was an American engineering educator and academic administrator who served two terms as chair of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell, and as dean of the Cornell University College of Engineering from 1972 to 1978. He was the 12th president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) from 1978-1985.
He was awarded MS and AeE degrees from Caltech. He worked in Huntsville, Alabama on the Saturn, Apollo and Lunar Land Rover Projects at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1964–65. He obtained a PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Cornell University in 1967. Under Peter Drucker he studied management at New York University.
He was promoted to Professor in 1980. George joined the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden in September 2000 as Professor of Turbulence. Since retiring as Professor Emeritus from Chalmers in 2009, he has held positions with CNRS and Ecole Central de Lille in France, Imperial College of London, and Princeton University.
It was here that we formalized the congress into the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). IUTAM awards the Batchelor Prize for outstanding research in fluid dynamics every four years at the ICTAM conference. Named in honour of George Batchelor, the Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist, the prize has a value of $25,000.
Example of a gear train Merritt wrote a number of books, including the standard texts Gears (1942) and its companion volume Gear Trains (1947),Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 2, No. 3 (March 1949), p. 49. the later work including a Brocot table of "all useful numbers up to 200,000".Roegel, Denis. (2011) A reconstruction of Merritt’s Brocot table (1947).
Chih-Kung Lee (C.K. Lee; ; born October 1959 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese mechanical engineer. He received his B.S. degree in civil engineering from National Taiwan University and then obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University, majoring in theoretical & applied mechanics, with a minor in physics. He is known as the inventor of modal sensors and actuators.
He established a center for applied mechanics at the Henri Poincaré Institute, where research into optics, cybernetics, and atomic energy were carried out. He inspired the formation of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and was an early member. His funeral was held 23 March 1987 at the Church of Saint-Pierre-de-Neuilly. Louis never married.
Accessed 2017-09-17. Abramson is an internationally regarded expert in the field of theoretical mechanics and applied mechanics with expertise in fluid dynamics, specifically the "dynamics of contained liquids in astronautical, nuclear, and marine systems."National Research Council (U.S.). Future Flight: A Review of the Small Aircraft Transportation System Concept, Nummer 263, Transportation Research Board.
The Applied Mechanics Division (AMD) is a division in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The AMD was founded in 1927, with Stephen Timoshenko being the first chair. The current AMD membership is over 5000, out of about 90,000 members of the ASME. AMD is the largest of the six divisions in the ASME Basic Engineering Technical Group.
The Journal of Engineering Mechanics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and covers activity and development in the field of applied mechanics as it relates to civil engineering. Published papers typically describe the development and implementation of new analytical models, innovative numerical methods, and novel experimental methods and results.
Kam Tim Chau (born 1960) (周錦添) is an engineering educator. He is the Chair Professor in Geotechnical Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and was the former President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He authored a text on geomechanics entitled "Analytic Methods in Geomechanics" (2013) published by CRC Press.
Föppl was the son of August Föppl, a German structuralist and university lecturer. His brother was Otto Föppl who was an engineer and Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Braunschweig for 30 years. His brother-in-law was the physicist Ludwig Prandtl. Föppl completed his Abitur in 1906 and studied mechanical engineering for two years at the Polytechnical Institute.
Shun Bo Zhao, Shi Ming Liu, Xiao Ke Li,"Design of Prestressed Concrete Continuous Rigid Frame Bridge with V-shaped Piers", Applied Mechanics and Materials, Vol.201-202, October 2012. This is notable because it was already challenging to place standard reinforcing in a concrete rigid frame bridge. Prestressing the rebars is more difficult but was proven to still be feasible.
Typical random vibration in the time domain While the term power spectral density (PSD) is commonly used to specify a random vibration event, ASD is more appropriate when acceleration is being measured and used in structural analysis and testing. CrandallCrandall, S.H. (ed.),1958, Random Vibration, New York: MIT Press/Wiley.Crandell, S.H., 1959, Random Vibration, Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 12, 739-745.
Applied Mechanics Reviews is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by ASME. The editor-in-chief is Harry Dankowicz (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign). The journal focuses on articles that review technical literature on engineering, particularly mechanical engineering and mechanics-related topics. These include current computational, theoretical and experimental research, theoretical modeling, methods of analysis and methods of instrumentation.
They had nine children, five of whom died before reaching the age of ten. At the close of the Civil War, Woodward accepted a position as vice principal of Smith Academy in St. Louis, Missouri (part of Washington University). In 1868, he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in Washington University. In 1870, he became a professor of mathematics and applied mechanics.
Advisor: Prof. Ehud Lenz. Between 1987-1990 Shraga worked as a scientist in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) – Division of Manufacturing Technologies in Sydney, Australia, developing a robotic system for the processing of colored gemstones. He completed his Ph.D. in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, at the department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 1994.
Arnold Kaufmann (18 August 1911 – 15 June 1994)Aluja, Jaime Gil. "In memory of Professor Arnold Kaufmann (1911–1994)." Fuzzy Sets and Systems 84.2 (1996): 125-126. was a French engineer, professor of Applied Mechanics and Operations Research at the Mines ParisTech in Paris, at the Grenoble Institute of Technology and the Université catholique de Louvain, and scientific advisor at Groupe Bull.
Kaufmann had an illustrious career.Zadeh, Lotfi A. "In memoriam of Professor Arnold Kaufmann (1911–1994)." Fuzzy Sets and Systems 84.2 (1996): 119-120. He served as pilot during World War II, and in his later life became Professor of Applied Mechanics and Operations Research at the Ecole Supérieure des Mines de Paris; Polytechnic University at Grenoble; and the university of Louvain in Belgium.
Singh got his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and Master's in Applied mechanics from Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad India in 1990 & 1992\. Existing passion pertaining to Aeronautical Engineering, six years later in 1998, Singh joined Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at IIT Kanpur, received in 2001, later obtained his Post Doctorate Fellowship from Wright State University in 2003.
He was an INSA-nominated member of the National Committee of International Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) for two three-year terms: July 2000-June 2003 and January 2008-December 2011, and was a member of the IUTAM General Assembly until 2012. Kant is chair and a member of the engineering and technology sections of INSA and IASc, respectively.
Gao has a background in applied mechanics and engineering science. His research interests span over Solid Mechanics, Nanomechanics and Biomechanics. He works on mechanics of thin films and hierarchically structured materials, mechanics of biological and bio-inspired materials, mechanics of nanostructured and nanotwinned materials, mechanics of cell adhesion, mechanics of cell- nanomaterials interactions, mechanics of energy storage systems, and mechanics of metallic glasses.
Thomas Arthur McMahon (April 21, 1943 – February 14, 1999) was a Professor of Applied Mechanics and Biology at Harvard University. His book Muscles, Reflexes and Locomotion is considered a classic on the mathematics, chemistry, biology, and mechanics of animal locomotion. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, and grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. He also wrote four well-regarded novels, the last published posthumously.
Lightner was born in western Pennsylvania in 1950 as Sherri Ann Schuler. She moved to San Diego during elementary school and graduated from Crawford High School in San Diego. Lightner then went on to UCSD where she received her B.A. in mathematics and sociology and her M.S. in applied mechanics and engineering. She is licensed by the State of California as a Professional Mechanical Engineer.
Educated at Cairo University in Egypt and Brown University in Rhode Island, U.S., Shawki spent 13 years as a researcher and professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the top engineering schools in the world. Shawki has a Ph.D. and an M.Sc. in engineering, an M.Sc. in applied mathematics, and a B.Sc. in mechanical engineering.
Plasma Science and Technology is a scientific journal published by the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, hosted by IOP Publishing. It publishes novel experimental and theoretical findings in all fields related to plasma physics. The current editor-in-chief is Yunfeng Liang of the Forschungszentrum Jülich Institute of Energy and Climate Research, Germany.
Solver was sold to Universal Technical Systems (Rockford, Illinois), he continued as Vice President of UTS. Most of his research interests and contributions were in textile engineering, applied mechanics, operations research, and computer science, in areas as diverse as CAD/CAM, large deflection analysis of slender bodies, topology of line structures, and language design. Konopasek was a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.
In 2012, the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty was launched to commemorate the memory of Eshelby. The award is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics, and awardees are formally recognised at the annual Applied Mechanics Division Banquet at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (ASME-IMECE) meeting.
The college has a 6-acre campus on NH-58, Delhi-Haridwar Bypass Road, Ghat Institutional Area, Meerut. The campus is 5 km from Meerut City Railway station. DIET Garden Area The institute has a centralised library that has books on engineering, technology, applied mechanics, computer applications and other competitive journals. The library has 20,000 volumes in all and its reading room can seat 50 students.
1974: Doctor Honoris Causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. 1993: Festschrift on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Johannes Ferdinand Besseling, Edited by J.Argyris and E.van der Giessen, Special Issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 103, Nos. 1–2, pp. 1–346. 1994: Honorary member of the General Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics since August 1994.
Mulalo Doyoyo (born 13 August 1970) is a South African engineer, polymathic inventor, and professor. Doyoyo is a researcher in applied mechanics, ultralight materials, green building, renewable energy, and other fields of engineering. He has lectured in different engineering disciplines including ocean engineering, civil and environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering. He has operated at the academia-industry interface, forming partnerships with a diverse group of companies.
Bernard Budiansky (8 March 1925 – 23 January 1999) was a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials.JR Rice (2008) Bernard Budiansky 1925-1999: A Memorial Tribute, National Academy of Sciences.J Arbocz and J Singer (2000) Professor Bernard Budiansky's contributions to buckling and post-buckling of shell structures. AIAA paper number 2000-1322.
19, 1951, p 17. Nemenyi was also deeply interested in the philosophy of mathematics and mathematical education. He translated David Hilbert and Stefan Cohn-Vossen's Anschauliche Geometrie into English, giving it the title Geometry and the Imagination. Clifford Truesdell writes that it was Nemenyi who first taught him "that mechanics was something deep and beautiful, beyond the ken of schools of "applied mathematics" and "applied mechanics"".
Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third way" besides theoretical and experimental sciences, computational mechanics was widely considered to be a sub-discipline of applied mechanics. It is now considered to be a sub-discipline within computational science.
In 1939 Donnell joined the Illinois Institute of Technology faculty, where he served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering until his retirement in 1962. Afterwards he was Professor at Stanford University, and in 1974 guest professor at the University of Houston. Donnell was founding editor of the engineering journal Applied Mechanics Reviews. He was awarded the honorary doctor degree by the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Rice was born in 1940 in Frederick, Maryland, son of Donald Blessing Rice and Mary Celia (Santangelo) Rice. He received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Lehigh University in 1962. He went on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D in Applied Mechanics from Lehigh in 1963 and 1964, respectively. Rice taught at Brown University from 1964 until 1981, when he accepted a position at Harvard University.
He started his academic career as assistant professor in Cornell College of Engineering. He served two terms as chair of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and as associate dean of graduate study and research in 1967. In 1972 he was named dean of the College of Engineering. He served in that capacity until he was named president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1978.
His book Technische Dynamik, written with Richard Grammel, was a standard reference in its era. Biezeno was one of the organizers of the first Internationalen Congress of Applied Mechanics held at Delft in 1924. His doctoral students include Warner T. Koiter and Adriaan van Wijngaarden. Biezeno was given honorary doctorates by the University of Ghent, the University of Amsterdam, and the Free University of Brussels.
Peter Meisen is an American scientist who is the president of Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) which he founded in 1989. Meisen was born in San Diego, California. He graduated in 1976 from the University of California, San Diego with an Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences degree. In 1983, he co-founded SHARE (Self Help and Resource Exchange), North America's largest private food distribution program.
Glantz was the first of two children born in Cleveland, Ohio to Louis Glantz, an insurance salesman, and Frieda, a real estate broker. As a youth, Glantz took a great interest in the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite. () He was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved the top rank of Eagle Scout, and earned a Bronze Palm for further achievements. Glantz obtained a B.Sc. in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1969, an M.Sc. in applied mechanics from Stanford University in 1970, and in 1973, a Ph.D. from Stanford in applied mechanics (concentrating on the mechanics of the human heart) and engineering-economic systems (EES is a Stanford department created in the late 1960s, integrating computers and engineering in "methods of systems and economic analysis to engineering problems involving policy and decision making, both in government and industry").
Sottos accepted a faculty position in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. She was a member of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, eventually serving as its interim head. In 2006 she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She was named the Donald B. Willet Professor of Engineering of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and a University Scholar.
Fish received his B.S. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel in 1982. He obtained his Ph.D in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern University in 1989. Over his 30 years of research, Fish has focused on multiscale science and engineering with applications to aerospace, automotive industry, civil engineering, biological and material sciences. His projects include life prediction and durability of structural components made of composites, concrete, and nanomaterials.
Collins served as chair of the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) in 2010–2012. Collins was elected Member-at-Large of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Engineering Section in 2014. Until May 2020, he served on the Alan T. Waterman Award Committee for the National Science Foundation. Collins has been a member of the board of trustees of the Mitre Corporation since 2018.
In 1953, following Joseph Stalin's death, Shparo's mother got a job at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, where she was involved in calculating the trajectories of both the first Soviet cruise missile and the first artificial satellite, Sputnik. ;Educational background In 1967, Shparo graduated from the Moscow State University, earning a PhD in Mathematics. Following graduation, he began teaching full-time at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISIS).
Contamin's first work experience was in Spain. In 1863, he joined the Chemins de Fer du Nord railway company as a designer, attached to the department responsible for the tracks. He was successively promoted to Inspector, Engineer (1876), and Chief Engineer (1890). He also taught the course on Applied Mechanics at the École centrale from 1865 to 1873, and then held the chair of Applied Resistance until 1891.
Bertram Hopkinson (11 January 1874 – 26 August 1918) was a British patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer designer of the internal combustion engine. Hopkinson was born in Birmingham, in 1874, the son of John Hopkinson an electrical engineer. He read law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a lawyer after his graduation.
In 1948, he was elected to the Romanian Academy. In 1949 he became director of the Institute of Applied Mechanics of the Academy. Carafoli was President of the International Astronautical Federation from 1968 to 1970."IAF Presidents" , at the International Astronautical Federation In 1971, he reorganized, along with Henri Coandă, the Department of Aeronautical Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, spinning it off from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
As stated in the 1901 Syllabus, the Thames School of Mines taught various subjects. The bulk of which directly related to mining. The subjects included: Mathematics, Mining and Applied mechanics, Practical Assaying and Ventilation and Explosives, along with others. In addition to the teaching of these subjects the school was also used to prepare candidates for the Government certifications of Mine Manager, Battery Superintendent, Engine Driver and Licensed Assayer.
Acta Mechanica is a peer-reviewed English, scientific journal publishing articles in the field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, specifically in solid mechanics and fluid mechanics, published by Springer. The editor-in- chief is Hans Irschik (Johannes Kepler University Linz). Other Editors are M. Krommer (Vienna University of Technology), C. Marchioli (University of Udine), Martin Ostoja-Starzewski (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and George J. Weng (Rutgers University).
N. O. Myklestad, "A Simple Tabular Method of Calculating Deflections and Influence Coefficients of Beams", Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences (Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences), Vol. 13, No. 1 (1946), pp. 23–28. N. O. Myklestad, "A Tabular Method of Calculating Helicopter Blade Deflections and Moments," Transactions of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1947. N. O. Myklestad, "Numerical Analysis of Forced Vibrations of Beams," Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1952.
The advances and research in Applied Mechanics has wide application in many fields of study. Some of the specialties that put the subject into practice are Mechanical Engineering, Construction Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Structural engineering and Bioengineering. Prof. S. Marichamy said that "Mechanics is the study of bodies which are in motion or rest condition under the action of Forces".
In 1900, Sommerfeld started his appointment to the Chair of Applied Mechanics at the Königliche Technische Hochschule Aachen (later RWTH Aachen University) as extraordinarius professor, which was arranged through Klein's efforts. At Aachen, he developed the theory of hydrodynamics, which would retain his interest for a long time. Later, at the University of Munich, Sommerfeld's students Ludwig Hopf and Werner Heisenberg would write their Ph.D. theses on this topic.
Uicker coined out the 4 X 4 matrix method for kinematic analysis of linkages in 1964.J. J. Uicker, JR., J. Denavit, R. S.Hartengerg, "An iterative method for the Displacement Analysis of Spatial Mechanisms", Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1964 pp. 309-314. He proposed the Sheth-Uicker Notation for kinematic analysis mechanical linkages in 1971.P.N. Sheth, J.J.Uicker, "A generalized Symbolic notation for mechanisms", Transactions of the ASME, vol.
Mahalingam joined the Engineering Faculty of the University of Ceylon (later University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, University of Peradeniya) when it was established in 1950. In 1958 he wrote highly acclaimed research paper on vibration, Vibration of Branched System: A Displacement Excitation Approach, which was published in the Journal of Applied Mechanics. Mahalingam received a D.Sc.Eng. degree from the University of London after which he was promoted to professor.
A similar, but not identical, theory in static setting, had been proposed earlier by Eric Reissner in 1945.E. Reissner, 1945, The effect of transverse shear deformation on the bending of elastic plates, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 12, pp. A68–77. Both theories are intended for thick plates in which the normal to the mid-surface remains straight but not necessarily perpendicular to the mid-surface.
The Department of Structural Engineering split from the former Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences in 1999. However, its independence from the department predates this split, as the Structural Systems Research group was separately administered beginning in 1993. Presently, the department has 24 faculty, 517 undergraduates, and 201 graduate students housed in the Structural and Materials Engineering building. Undergraduate students are limited to pursuing a degree in structural engineering.
After graduation, Gibbs was appointed as tutor at the college for a term of three years. During the first two years, he taught Latin and during the third year, he taught "natural philosophy" (i.e., physics). In 1866, he patented a design for a railway brakeUS Patent No. 53,971, "Car Brake", Apr. 17, 1866. See The Early Work of Willard Gibbs in Applied Mechanics, (New York: Henry Schuman, 1947), pp. 51–62.
Dusan Krajcinovic, Mechanics of Materials 8 (1989) 169. Damage mechanics is a topic of applied mechanics that relies heavily on continuum mechanics. Most of the work on damage mechanics uses state variables to represent the effects of damage on the stiffness and remaining life of the material that is damaging as a result of thermomechanical load and ageing.Struik, L C E, Physical aging in amorphous polymers and other materials, Elsevier Scientific Pub.
His plans to return to Hungary were interrupted by the onset of the Second World War. In 1940, Hoff joined the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn as an instructor in aeronautical engineering, eventually becoming full professor in 1946 and head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1950. He subsequently joined the faculty of Stanford University in the fall of 1957. He served as the chair of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (1955).
The Commission then became known as the International Commission for Acoustics. The ICA has also applied to become an Affiliated Commission of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). A motion in favor of Affiliation was carried unanimously at the IUTAM General Assembly Meeting held at the University of Stuttgart 1998 August 28–30. The ICA became a Scientific Associate of the International Council of Scientific Unions ICSU in 2006.
Aristoteles Iraklis Philippidis (1915–1985) was a scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and made contributions to the mechanics of materials, especially to the theory of plasticity. He was born in Smyrna. He graduated from the Praktikon Lykeum Athens in 1932 and got Diploma Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. He went to Technical University of Berlin in 1938 and made his doctoral study under the supervision of Prof.
Born in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence, Italy, Emilio began working in a bicycle shop, learning the basics of applied mechanics. Later, he went to work in a car garage, where he developed a strong love for engines and cars. When he was in his twenties Materassi took over the administration of his family business, selling wine, ropes and twine. Poor economic condition forced him to work as a bus driver for local services.
He also headed the Department of Applied Mechanics of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. In 1966 the department was named after him to become the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics. During the 1940s Keldysh became the leader of a group of applied mathematicians involved in almost all large scientific projects of the Soviet Union. Keldysh created the Calculation Bureau that carried most of the mathematical problems related to the development of nuclear weapons.
Inglis sat on the board of inquiry investigating the loss of the airship R101 and was chair of a Ministry of War Transport railway modernisation committee in 1946. Knighted in 1945, he spent his later years developing his theories on the education of engineers and wrote a textbook on applied mechanics. He has been described as the greatest teacher of engineering of his time and has a building named in his honour at Cambridge University.
Boiler technology deals with the design, construction and operation of steam boilers and turbines (also used in nuclear power generation, see below), drawn from applied mechanics and materials engineering. Energy conversion has to do with internal combustion engines, turbines, pumps, fans and so on, which are used for transportation, mechanical energy and power generation. High thermal and mechanical loads bring about operational safety worries which are dealt with through many branches of applied engineering science.
Popular exposition of the Monte Carlo Method was conducted by McCrackenMcCracken, D. D., (1955) The Monte Carlo Method, Scientific American, 192(5), pp. 90-97. Method's general philosophy was discussed by ElishakoffElishakoff, I., (2003) Notes on Philosophy of the Monte Carlo Method, International Applied Mechanics, 39(7), pp.753-762 and Grüne-Yanoff and WeirichGrüne-Yanoff, T., & Weirich, P. (2010). The philosophy and epistemology of simulation: A review, Simulation & Gaming, 41(1), pp. 20-50.
The Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MechSE) is one of 12 departments within the University of Illinois College of Engineering. The MechSE department was formed in 2006 through a merger of the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department with the Mechanical Engineering program from the previous Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. The department offers degrees in Mechanical Engineering (B.S., M.S., Ph.D.), Engineering Mechanics (B.
Henry Louis Langhaar (October 14, 1909 – September 28, 1992) was a mathematician, engineer, researcher, educator, and author in the field of engineering mechanics. In 1978, he retired as Professor Emeritus, after 31 years in the Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (TAM) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His interests were centered on dimensional analysis, spanning fluid to solid mechanics, and specific research areas included aircraft structures, plates and shells, and buckling theory.
Kao comes from a traditional family which did not support her in pursuing higher education; however, she was encouraged by her professors in continuing her studies. She graduated in 1997 from National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a minor in physics. She earned a master's degree in applied mechanics in 1999 from the same university. In 2004 she completed her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.
A very long series of testing followed, only concluding on 29 July 1995. It was decided that the Pelikan would not sell well, so no more were built. The prototype was operated by the Institute of Aeronautics and Applied Mechanics of Warsaw University of Technology. It displayed at the 16th Meeting of Amateur Aviation Structures in Oleśnica in June 1997 and remained active until seriously damaged in an accident on 11 November 2012.
Variants of this method are key components of several physics engines for computer game development, for example, NVIDIA PhysX and Bullet. For his work in the area of robotic grasping and dexterous manipulation, Trinkle was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2010. He spent most of 2010 as a Humboldt Fellow at the Institute for Mechatronics and Robotics at the German Aerospace Center and the Institute for Applied Mechanics at Technical University of Munich.
Kane was born in Vienna, Austria. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1938 after Austria fell to Nazi Germany. In 1943, he enlisted in the United States Army and was stationed in the South Pacific as a combat photographer. From 1946 to 1953 he attended Columbia University during which he earned two BS degrees in mathematics and civil engineering, as well as an MS in civil engineering and a PhD in applied mechanics.
Hermann Schlichting studied from 1926 till 1930 mathematics, physics and applied mechanics at the University of Jena, Vienne and Göttingen. In 1930 he wrote his PhD in Göttingen titled Über das ebene Windschattenproblem and also in the same year passed the state examination as teacher for higher mathematics and physics. His meeting with Ludwig Prandtl had a long-lasting effect on him. He worked from 1931 till 1935 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research in Göttingen.
Dr. Gold received his B.S.E. degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from Cornell University in 1974, and earned his M.D. degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in 1978. He did his medical residency in general surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 1978 to 1983, his adult cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital from 1983 to 1984, and pediatric cardiac surgery fellowship Boston Children’s Hospital from 1983 to 1985, respectively.
Applied mechanics, most notably mechanical engineering disciplines such as continuum mechanics, mechanism analysis, structural analysis, kinematics and dynamics play prominent roles in the study of biomechanics. A ribosome is a biological machine that utilizes protein dynamics Usually biological systems are much more complex than man-built systems. Numerical methods are hence applied in almost every biomechanical study. Research is done in an iterative process of hypothesis and verification, including several steps of modeling, computer simulation and experimental measurements.
A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, McDonnell attended Princeton University, the University of Colorado Boulder and Washington University, achieving bachelor's degrees in economics (1945) and mechanical engineering (1948) and a master's degree in applied mechanics (1954). In 1948, he joined McDonnell Douglas Corporation, a company founded by his uncle James S. McDonnell, as a stress engineer. He rose within the ranks of the company to become president in 1971. The following year, he became chief executive officer.
The School of Engineering teaches and researches sustainable development, global warming, energy conservation and clean energy, and the sustainable use of natural resources. In 2018, Aalto University had a World University Ranking of 140, and was ranked 9th overall in the Top 50 under 50. The School operates in the fields of applied mechanics, civil and environmental engineering, energy and HVAC technology, mechanical engineering, real estate economics, geomatics, structural engineering and building technology, and urban and regional studies.
Professor James H. Williams Jr. in Du Pont Court, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, November 2000. James Henry Williams Jr. is a mechanical engineer, consultant, civic commentator, and teacher of engineering. He is currently Professor of Applied Mechanics in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is regarded as one of the world's leading experts in the mechanics, design, fabrication, and nondestructive evaluation (NDE) of nonmetallic fiber reinforced composite materials and structures.
In 1990, Swanson won the Computers in Engineering Award for outstanding contributions to the engineering & computing industries. In 1994 he was named One of the Top 5 of the Top 50 R&D; Stars in the US by IndustryWeek and was elected as an ASME Fellow. In 1998, Swanson won the ASME Applied Mechanics Award and received the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering's Distinguished Alumni Award. He was awarded honorary membership in the ASME in 2003.
Early on in his life, his father recognized his aptitude for mechanics and academics and worked on his behalf to have his son admitted to the Carl Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany. During his apprenticeship, Schlage learned drafting, applied mechanics and engineering. After four years, he graduated with a special award of merit, as a result of his applied scholarship. Walter developed a sense of adventure whetted by guests that stayed in his father's hotel, in Thuringia, Germany.
As a professional freestyle competitor at the time noted: :The progress of the urethane [sic] wheels just totally stoked me; you could do so much more on a skateboard, surf moves, especially; you could carve your turns and stuff without sliding, that changed everything a lot. Nasworthy completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mechanics at University of California San Diego in 1984. After earning his degree, he pursued a career as a mechanical engineer.
Zheng is a native of Yin County (now Yinzhou District) of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, and was born in Jinan of Shandong Province. He obtained a BS from Tsinghua University in 1947, and his MS and PhD from California Institute of Technology. Zheng served as Director of the Institute of Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), President of the Chinese Mechanical Society, and Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ().
Gao received academic honors including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995 and the Humboldt Prize from Germany and Rodney Hill Prize in Solid Mechanics from the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 2012. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2012, to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (as a foreign academician) in 2015, the National Academy of Sciences in 2018 and American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Next from 1969 to 1979 he was Professor of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. From 1948 to 1955 he had also been researcher at NASA's Langley Research Center, and from 1956 to 1957 at Lockheed's Palo Alto Research Center. Reissner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1962. He was awarded the honorary doctor by the University of Hanover, and was elected honorary member by the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM).
He is the author of numerous books including Foundations of Solid Mechanics, Continuum Mechanics, and a series of books on Biomechanics. He is also one of the principal founders of the Journal of Biomechanics and was a past chair of the ASME International Applied Mechanics Division. In 1972, Fung established the Biomechanics Symposium under the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This biannual summer meeting, first held at the Georgia Institute of Technology, became the annual Summer Bioengineering Conference.
During Miles' tenure, the department would be renamed to the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, distinguishing it from the second engineering department. Founded in 1965 by Henry G. Booker as the Department of Applied Electrophysics, it would be renamed the Department of Applied Physics and Information Science. Both departments quickly achieved international acclaim for the high-quality research they supported. Additionally, undergraduate engineering instruction began in 1968 with a BA degree in information and computer science.
Mikhail P. Fedoruk born February 18, 1956 in the Kochenyovsky District of Novosibirsk District, Russia. In 1982 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics, Novosibirsk State University and began his scientific career with postgraduate study in the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics SB RAS. His teaching activities are connected with Novosibirsk State University. Since 1995 he worked as a lecturer at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, in 2003 became the first deputy dean of the faculty.
Picture of the thermal center. The thermal center is a concept used in applied mechanics and engineering. When a solid body is exposed to a thermal variation, an expansion will occur, changing the dimensions and potentially the shape of the body and the position of its points. Under certain circumstances it may happen that one point belonging to the space associated to the body has no displacement at all: this point is called the thermal center (TC).
Westergaard graduated in engineering from Copenhagen Danmarks Tekniske Højskole in 1911. He continued his practice in reinforced concrete in Hamburg, London, Göttingen, and prepared his written dissertation at Königlich Bayerische Technische Hochschule München in 1915. He obtained a PhD at the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1916 and was appointed lecturer there for theoretical and applied mechanics. In 1921 he became an assistant professor, associate professor in 1924, and full professor in 1927 at the University of Illinois.
Cadets are required to stay within the Academy during the two-year course. English, mathematics, physics, Pakistan studies, Islamic studies and international maritime law are the mandatory subjects for the associate degree program regardless of the branch. For associate degree program in Marine Engineering further subjects are added to the mandatory subjects which include Internal Combustion Engines Knowledge, General Engineering Knowledge, Workshop Practice, Applied Mechanics, Applied Thermodynamics, Electro-technology, Instrumentation and Control Systems, Naval Architecture and Ship Construction and Machine Drawing.
James Stuart (2 January 1843 – 12 October 1913) was a British educator and politician. He was born in Markinch, Fife, and attended Madras College and the University of St Andrews before going to Trinity College, Cambridge. He later became a Fellow of the College and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University from 1875; he was also Lord Rector of St Andrews from 1898 to 1901. Stuart was interested in popularising scientific topics and published several books on the subject.
Rotordynamics, also known as rotor dynamics, is a specialized branch of applied mechanics concerned with the behavior and diagnosis of rotating structures. It is commonly used to analyze the behavior of structures ranging from jet engines and steam turbines to auto engines and computer disk storage. At its most basic level, rotor dynamics is concerned with one or more mechanical structures (rotors) supported by bearings and influenced by internal phenomena that rotate around a single axis. The supporting structure is called a stator.
He received the Arcelor-Mittal endowed Chair granted to the University of Navarra from 2003 to 2008. He is a member of the ECCS (European Convention for Constructional Steelwork) Committee TC-10 on Steel Connections, the Spanish Committee in charge of the Structural Steel Code, and the AEN/CTN140/SC3 Committee Eurocode 3: Structural Steel Design. He provides technical review to the Journal of Engineering Structures, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Journal of Nonlinear Dynamics and Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering.
Bovey joined the staff of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in Liverpool and became an assistant engineer. He trained with Sir George Fosbery Lyster in the area of structures. In 1877, Bovey took up the position of professor of civil engineering and applied mechanics at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where using his administrative skills he developed the Engineering Faculty. Bovey was offered the position of Rector of Imperial College in 1907, although his health was failing by this time.
Marco Amabili received the Christophe Pierre Research Excellence Award from McGill University in 2015 and was elected to the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2018 and as foreign member of Academia Europaea in 2020. He was elected chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) in 2019. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He delivered the Koiter lecture of the Dutch Research School on Engineering Mechanics in 2019.
He was a professor of engineering at Brown University starting in 1975, and served as the dean of the Engineering Department from 1988 to 1991. He was the chair of the Applied Mechanics Division. Needleman's main research interests are in the computational modeling of deformation and fracture processes in structural materials, in particular metals. A general objective is to provide quantitative relations between the measurable (and hopefully controllable) features of the materials' micro-scale structure and its macroscopic mechanical behavior.
Characteristic publications with J. F.Besseling as single author: 1956: Application of matrix calculus in adjusting stiffness and vibration properties of redundant structures, Proc. of the 9th Int. Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brussel. 1957: Sterkte- en trillingsberekeningen voor de transsone windtunnel van het NLL met behulp van elektronische rekenmachines, De Ingenieur, Jaarg. 69,No.42, Oct. 1957, pp L17–L23. 1957: An Investigation on the damping of the torsional vibrations in synchronous alternators and induction motors, Rep. ST-14, NLL, 1957.
He was appointed docent at the University of Bergen in 1960, and was promoted to professor in 1963. He succeeded Oddvar Bjørgum, and had responsibility for the university's education in applied mathematics. His fields of research include plasma, nonlinear acoustics, hydroacoustics and acoustic streaming. He was also the dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences from 1975 to 1977, and has held positions in NAVF, NTVF, and in the national committee of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Structural analysis is the determination of the effects of loads on physical structures and their components. Structures subject to this type of analysis include all that must withstand loads, such as buildings, bridges, aircraft and ships. Structural analysis employs the fields of applied mechanics, materials science and applied mathematics to compute a structure's deformations, internal forces, stresses, support reactions, accelerations, and stability. The results of the analysis are used to verify a structure's fitness for use, often precluding physical tests.
Reis forged himself a diploma of engineering, supposedly from Oxford University, although in reality it was from a school which didn't exist: the "Polytechnic School of Engineering". According to the diploma, he had studied engineering sciences, geology, geometry, physics, metallurgy, pure mathematics, paleography, electric and mechanical engineering and applied mechanics. He started as a public employee in the public sewers constructions and repairs. With an uncovered cheque, he bought the major part of the stocks of the Transafrican Railways of Angola, in Moçâmedes.
In 1890, Ewing took up the post of Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at the University of Cambridge, initially at Trinity College, though he later moved to King's College. At Cambridge, Ewing's research into the magnetisation of metals led him to criticise the conventional account of Wilhelm Weber. In 1890, he observed that magnetisation lagged behind an applied alternating current. He described the characteristic hysteresis curve and speculated that individual molecules act as magnets, resisting changes in magnetising potential.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Applied Mechanics Reviews, Current Contents/Engineering, Computing & Technology, Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, Compendex, Inspec, Mathematical Reviews, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH. According to the Journal Citation Reports, Wave Motion has a 2016 5 year impact factor of 1.704 and an impact factor of 1.575, ranking it 15th out of 31 journals in the category "acoustics", 71st out of 133 in the category "mechanics", and 32nd out of 79 in the category "physics, multidisciplinary".
The Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics has consistently ranked in the top hundred Civil Engineering schools worldwide and top 3 in Canada. There are approximately four hundred undergraduate and eighty graduate students in the department, of whom over half are women and over one-third are from outside Canada as of 2018. Broad programs of study are available that offer specialized courses in all areas of civil engineering. Facilities include state-of-the-art teaching, research, and computing laboratories.
After working for a few months as a research associate at AIT under Worsak, he went to Northwestern University in 1987 under the supervision of Professor John Rudnicki. He received a PhD in theoretical and applied mechanics in 1991. After another year as post-doctoral at Northwestern University, he joined what was then Hong Kong Polytechnic (now the Hong Kong Polytechnic University) in 1992. He has been serving there as a lecturer, assistant professor, associate professor, professor and chair professor.
Although icebreaking cargo ships had been built in the past, their hull forms were always compromises between open water performance and icebreaking capability. A good icebreaking bow, designed to break the ice by bending it under the ship's weight, has very poor open water characteristics and is subjected to slamming in heavy weather while a hydrodynamically efficient bulbous bow greatly increases the ice resistance.Kujala, P and Riska, K: Talvimerenkulku (TKK-AM-13). Department of Applied Mechanics, Helsinki University of Technology, 2010.
Although icebreaking cargo ships had been built in the past, their hull forms were always compromises between open water performance and icebreaking capability. A good icebreaking bow, designed to break the ice by bending it under the ship's weight, has very poor open water characteristics and is subjected to slamming in heavy weather while a hydrodynamically efficient bulbous bow greatly increases the ice resistance.Kujala, P and Riska, K: Talvimerenkulku (TKK-AM-13). Department of Applied Mechanics, Helsinki University of Technology, 2010.
Winterton was admitted to the drawing office at GWR in 1915 and two years later was appointed draughtswoman, a skilled technical role within the engineering field. Her two younger sisters later joined GWR. She had been engaged in making wiring diagrams of electric signalling appliances for track circuits and signal and point machines for use on the railways. While working at GWR, she enrolled at University College, Reading where she passed examinations in machine construction and drawing, electricity and magnetism, applied mechanics, general physics and mathematics.
On his return to France, Coulomb was sent to Bouchain. However, he now began to write important works on applied mechanics and he presented his first work to the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1773. In 1779 Coulomb was sent to Rochefort to collaborate with the Marquis de Montalembert in constructing a fort made entirely from wood near Île-d'Aix. During his period at Rochefort, Coulomb carried on his research into mechanics, in particular using the shipyards in Rochefort as laboratories for his experiments.
In the theory of thick plates, or theory of Yakov S. UflyandUflyand, Ya. S.,1948, Wave Propagation by Transverse Vibrations of Beams and Plates, PMM: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 12, 287-300 (in Russian) (see, for details, Elishakoff's handbookElishakoff ,I.,2020, Handbook on Timoshenko-Ehrenfest Beam and Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Theories, World Scientific, Singapore, ), Raymond Mindlin R. D. Mindlin, Influence of rotatory inertia and shear on flexural motions of isotropic, elastic plates, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1951, Vol. 18 p. 31–38.
Advanced structural mechanics may include the effects of stability and non-linear behaviors. Mechanics of structures is a field of study within applied mechanics that investigates the behavior of structures under mechanical loads, such as bending of a beam, buckling of a column, torsion of a shaft, deflection of a thin shell, and vibration of a bridge. There are three approaches to the analysis: the energy methods, flexibility method or direct stiffness method which later developed into finite element method and the plastic analysis approach.
Between 1932 and 1949 he was a professor at Moscow State University, first working in the Department of Theoretical Mechanics. In 1941, with Boris Bulgakov, Artobolevsky established the Department of Applied Mechanics, and served as its head from 1941 to 1944. From 1937, he also worked at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, and from 1942 was also a professor at the Moscow Aviation Institute. In 1939, Artobolevsky was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, and in 1946 became a full member.
In the past, he has been an advisor to the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economic Affairs and various other governmental agencies, as well as the director general of engineering & applied sciences at Taiwan's National Science Council (NSC). Currently, he is the chairman of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) and Institute for Information Industry (III). He is also a distinguished professor of the Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, the Institute of Applied Mechanics (IAM) and the Dept. of Engineering Science & Ocean Engineering at National Taiwan University.
Chen and Y.C. Hon, Numerical convergence of boundary knot method in the analysis of Helmholtz, modified Helmholtz, and convection-diffusion problems, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 192, 1859–1875, 2003. numerical investigations are made on the convergence of BKM in the analysis of homogeneous Helmholtz, modified Helmholtz and convection-diffusion problems; inY.C. Hon and W. Chen, Boundary knot method for 2D and 3D Helmholtz and convection-diffusion problems with complicated geometry, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 1931-1948, 56(13), 2003.
The interaction with IIT-M started in 1995 through two collaborative projects, which were initiated with late Dr. R.S. Alwar, eminent professor in Applied Mechanics. The first project was on simulation of thermal shock on the control plug mockup and the second was on simulation of thermal striping in the core structure. An MoU was established on 19 July 1997 for the formation of ‘IGCAR- IITM Cell’ with Prof. R. Natarajan (then Director, IIT-M) as chairman and late Dr. Placid Rodriguez as Co-Chairman. Prof.
Ha, S.K., Jin, K.K. and Huang, Y. (2008). Micro-Mechanics of Failure (MMF) for Continuous Fiber Reinforced Composites, Journal of Composite Materials, 42(18): 1873–1895. Tsai, S.W. and Wu, E.M. (1971). A General Theory of Strength for Anisotropic Materials, Journal of Composite Materials, 5(1): 58–80. Hashin, Z. and Rotem, A. (1973). A Fatigue Failure Criterion for Fiber Reinforced Materials, Journal of Composite Materials, 7(4): 448–464. Hashin, Z. (1980). Failure Criteria for Unidirectional Fiber Composites, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 47(2): 329–334.
Member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics since 1992, ASME International since 2013, and Euromech since 2000. Chief editor of Periodica Polytechnica (1993-1994). Member of the editorial board of the following scientific journals: Journal of Vibration and Control (1994-2014), Journal of Nonlinear Science (1995-2017), Journal of Computational and Applied Mechanics (2000-2005), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (2005-2010), Mechanism and Machine Theory (2006-), Physica D (1995-2019), ASME Journal Nonlinear and Computational Dynamics (2013-2018), and Nonlinear Dynamics (2014-).
Sinha grew up in Patna with three older sisters and completed his schooling from St. Michael's High School. His father and grandfather were both writers and his father owned a textbook-publishing business. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur where he got a B.Tech in Metallurgy in 1986 and then went on to do his Masters and PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania. Pramath is fluent in English, Hindi and Bhojpuri.
The youngest Section Head at Curtiss-Wright at that time, Charles Jones, was head of the Stress and Applied Mechanics Section, responsible for the structural integrity of Curtiss-Wright engines. Jones had a staff of 30 engineers, almost all with advanced degrees, but still had to put in an inordinate number of hours to keep up. He was delighted to have Bentele's experience, similar to that of Jones' but far more extensive, available to him. Bentele became a steady visitor, even before any Wankel issues came up.
Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi (Urdu: محمد حفيظ قريشى; ) (January 28, 1930 – August 11, 2007), SI, HI, known as Hafeez Qureshi, was a Pakistani nuclear scientist and a mechanical engineer, known for his classified work at the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). He was a director of PAEC's secretive divisions charged with testing nuclear weapons, he oversaw the work on weapon systems manufacturing and gained expertise on engineering applications of nuclear physics and applied mechanics. However, he is more noted for spearheading Pakistan's quest for nuclear capability.
Some other piezoelectric materials than quartz can be employed. These include single crystals of lithium tantalate, lithium niobate, lithium borate, berlinite, gallium arsenide, lithium tetraborate, aluminium phosphate, bismuth germanium oxide, polycrystalline zirconium titanate ceramics, high-alumina ceramics, silicon-zinc oxide composite, or dipotassium tartrate.Arthur Ballato Method of making a crystal oscillator desensitized to accelerationfields , Issue date: October 3, 1989.Recent Development of Bulk and Surface Acoustic Wave Technology for Frequency Control Applications, December 23, 2002 Institute of Applied Mechanics National Taiwan University, C. S. Lam, TXC Corporation.
He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Sciences. Suo is the author of many peer-reviewed articles, including "Mixed mode cracking in layered materials", (JW Hutchinson, Z Suo), Advances in applied mechanics 29 (63) and "Fracture mechanics for piezoelectric ceramics", (Z Suo, CM Kuo, DM Barnett, JR Willis), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 40 (4). In 2015, he contributed to the article "Syringe-injectable electronics", which was published in Nature Nanotechnology."Scientists create neural lace that fuses with your brain".
James Norman Goodier (October 17, 1905 – November 5, 1969) was professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University known for his work in elasticity and plastic deformation.Obituary (1970) Mechanical Engineering 92, 111. He was born in Preston, Lancashire, England and studied engineering at Cambridge University. He was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship which enabled him to continue his studies at the University of Michigan where he earned his doctorate in 1931 under the direction of Stephen Timoshenko with a dissertation titled Compression of Rectangular Blocks, and the Bending of Beams by Nonlinear Distributions of Bending Forces.
Gedeon Dagan’s research covers a variety of subjects in Hydrology, Applied Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics and Naval Hydrodynamics. His main field of research is Groundwater Hydrology; he developed quantitative models, theoretical and applied, of water flow and contaminant transport in porous media (soil and aquifers). Gedeon Dagan publications The models serve for the better understanding and prediction of processes occurring in the upper soil layer (irrigation, drainage) and in aquifers (exploitation, pollution). He is one of the founders, in the late 1970s, of the new discipline of Stochastic Hydrology.
During the period 1949 to 1951, he held the position of instructor in engineering mechanics, and upon receipt of the Ph.D., he was appointed assistant professor at Ann Arbor. He was promoted rapidly—to associate professor in 1953 and to full professor the following year. He moved to UC Berkeley in 1958 as professor of engineering science, and played an important role in the establishment of the Division of Applied Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering here. From 1964 to 1969, he served as chairman of the division.
From 1991 onwards, he held the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Chair in Mechanical Engineering, and in 1994 he was advanced to the newly instituted position of professor in the graduate school. He was an active member of many committees of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). During the period 1967-1972, he served on the executive committee of the Applied Mechanics Division of the ASME, and was chairman of the committee in 1972. For its fiftieth anniversary in 1977, Naghdi undertook the preparation of a history of the division.
CFD-FASTRAN was used to study the aerodynamic performance of a hypersonic vehicle powered by scramjet engines. Flow conditions were simulated at various angles of attack at Mach 5.85.Liang Jin, Xian Yu Wu, Jing Lei, Li Yan, Wei Huang, Jun Liu, “CFD Analysis of a Hypersonic Vehicle Powered by Triple-Module Scramjets,” Applied Mechanics and Materials, Volume 390, Pages 71-75, August 2013. Two-dimensional numerical flow simulations were performed with CFD-FASTRAN to compare the effects of a combined jet flap and Coanda jet effects a supercritical airfoil.
Shchokin received his primary and secondary education in Ukraine. He received his Engineering Diploma from Odessa Polytechnic Institute in 1967. From 1976 until 2001, Shchokin taught Theoretical Mechanics, Mechanics of Machines, Resistance of Materials, Applied Mechanics, Machine Design, Robotics and Automation and Mechatronics in Mechanical Engineering Department of Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine (1979-2001), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Information Science of University of Miskolc, Hungary (1981-1990), Faculty of Engineering of University of Cienfuegos, Cuba (1987). In 1990, he became a Professor of Mechanical Engineering Department in Odessa National Polytechnic University.
Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (January 13, 1895 - June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist Wilhelm G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. Jan Burgers was one of the co-founders of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 1946, and was its secretary-general from 1946 until 1952.
In 1904, at the end of his first year at Cambridge, Ricardo decided to enter the University Automobile Club's event, which was a competition to design a machine that could travel the furthest on of petrol. His engine had a single cylinder, and was the heaviest entered, but his motorcycle design won the competition, having covered a distance of . He was then persuaded to join the Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics, Bertram Hopkinson, working on research into engine performance. He graduated with a degree in 1906 and spent another year researching at Cambridge.
In 1947 Nils Myklestad accepted a position as Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the University of Illinois where he supervised a number of master's theses and PhD dissertations. He then joined North American Aviation in 1952 where he was in charge of the Navajo Missile Program. From 1954 until 1955 he was Chief of the Systems Analysis Section of Aerophysics Development Company. Myklestad joined AiResearch Manufacturing Company of Arizona in 1955 where he remained as Research Project Engineer until 1961 when he accepted a position as Professor of Engineering at Arizona State University.
He employed granular material physics to describe fragment ejecta behaviour and to predict the impact depth of projectiles as a function of impact velocity. Noting an anomalous behaviour from the experimental observations, he applied the variational perturbation theory to reveal and explain the role played by the increase in mass density during the failure of brittle materials under dynamic compression. In 1999, he accepted a postdoctoral researcher position from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to enhance his studies in applied mechanics. After his postdoctoral studies, he lectured in ocean engineering at MIT.
He became a member of the CPSU in 1940. In 1941 based on the former Georgian Academy of Sciences a new USSR Academy of Sciences was established by the Georgian SSR and Muskhelishvili got elected as its first president and academician. Simultaneously he also became director of the Tbilisi Mathematics Institute named after AM Rasmadze, and held that position until his death in 1976. From 1956 to 1976 Muskhelishvili was chairman of the National Committee of the USSR on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences).
The department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering offers Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering(Production Engineering), Automobile Technology, Computer aided Designing and Engineering, Control and Robotics Engineering, and other technological specialties under one specialisation stream. Department research activities are offered at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. The department has five main laboratories: Materials and Metallurgy Laboratory, Thermodynamics and Energy Laboratory, Fluid Mechanics and Process Engineering Laboratory, Applied Mechanics and Automobile Engineering Laboratory, and the Control, Automation, and CAD/CAM Laboratory. There is also an Engineering Workshop for graduate training in the use of industrial instruments.
"Nasha Niva" covered a wide range of political, economic, and cultural issues. Every issue included the following sections: government actions, political review, life of the countryside, life of the city, feuilletons, the newest literary works in Belarusian, correspondence, news from Russia and Lithuania, book digest, history notes, notes on agriculture, applied mechanics, personal ad. The newspaper saw as its main task the consolidation of a Belarusian political nation. It was also – as was observed at the time – the first source of information to be free of government interference.
Every Department has well equipped and well-maintained laboratories, with the latest machines, equipment, trainers, gadgets, models etc. Most of the Diploma programs are of 3 years duration spread over 6 semesters. However the Fabrication Technology & Erection Engineering programme is of 4 years duration, spread over 8 semesters and Food Technology programme is of 3½ years duration, spread over 7 semesters. In all the programmes the first two semesters are dedicated to impart to the students the courses like Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Applied Mechanics, Engineering drawing and Basic Workshop Practice.
Cornell Chronicle Online. Cabrera's seminal work in the field of systems evaluation led to the development of "netway" models ("networked pathways"). Cabrera's systems and netway models form the theoretical basis of Cornell's Office for Research and Evaluation. He has received several awards and competitive fellowships for his work, including a National Science Foundation IGERT fellowship in nonlinear systems in the Center for Applied Mathematics and the Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics at Cornell University and the Association of American Colleges and Universities K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.
With the ongoing destruction of Berlin the research facilities were moved in the spring of 1944 to Bad Saulgau in southern Germany, after the war in the French zone of occupation. In 1947 Flügge and his wife Irmgard Flügge-Lotz accepted positions at the new created Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) in Paris. With assistance of Stephen Timoshenko Flügge and his wife were both offered position at Stanford University in 1949. Flügge became appointed Professor of Applied Mechanics, and served at Stanford University until his retirement.
Hughes began his career as a mechanical design engineer at Grumman Aerospace, subsequently joining General Dynamics as a research and development engineer. After receiving his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Berkeley faculty, eventually moving to California Institute of Technology. He then moved to Stanford University before joining The University of Texas at Austin. At Stanford, he served as Chairman of the Division of Applied Mechanics, Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Chairman of the Division of Mechanics and Computation, and occupied the Mary and Gordon Crary Chair of Engineering.
CV of Prof. Liangchi Zhang Zhang received an honorary Doctor of Engineering in 2005 from the University of Sydney. Zhang was the Chairman of the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications in Sydney in 2002 (AEPA2002); the Chairman of the 3rd Australasian Congress on Applied Mechanics in Sydney in 2002 (ACAM2002); and the Chairman of the 1st International Symposium on Advances in Abrasive Technology in Sydney in 1997 (ISAAT'97). Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Surface Science and Engineering.
In 1924 - 1929 Galerkin was also a professor in the Railway Engineers Institute and in the St. Petersburg University. In 1924 he made his last trip abroad – he participated in the Congress on applied mechanics in the Netherlands. In spring 1926 Galerkin learned that Narkompros (Ministry of education) had adopted a decision to close the road-making section at his faculty. This decision was prepared and adopted secretly from the dean by the institute Communist party committee in the connection with the company on elimination of parallel specialities.
Dr. Mojaddidy's experience includes 8 years of volunteer work for Afghan refugees; 10 years of engineering practice in the United States in Quality Control, Project Management, Land Development and design of building, drainage and roadway structures, 12 years as university professor outside Afghanistan, one year as Deputy Minister of Higher Education and governor of Kabul Province since July 2009. He has published technical papers on nonlinear mechanics and has presented papers on the subject at the Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics. His research on nonlinear vibrations is included in reputed textbooks on the subject.
United States Naval academy seal designed by Park Benjamin Park Benjamin (1849–1922) was an American patent lawyer and writer. He was born in New York City, graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1867, resigned from the Navy in 1869, and graduated at the Albany Law School in the following year. He was associate editor of The Scientific American from 1872 to 1878 and subsequently edited Appleton's Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics and Cyclopædia of Modern Mechanism. He is also famous as the father-in-law of operatic tenor Enrico Caruso.
He studied science at Union College and received his Ph.D. in 1877. Before completing his doctorate he was assistant editor of Scientific American (1872–78) and then editor-in-chief of Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics (1879–96). By the time Benjamin began working at Scientific American it had become more associated with the commercial side of science and patenting of inventions. He was editor when Thomas Edison brought in his phonograph to the patent agency, and its uses were for the first time described in an 1877 issue.
After graduation, Talbot headed west and did railroad construction and maintenance in Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, and New Mexico. In September 1885, he returned to the University of Illinois as an assistant professor of engineering and mathematics. He taught a wide range of subjects, which at different times included mathematics, surveying, engineering drawing, contracts and specifications, roads and pavements, railroad engineering, mechanics and materials, hydraulics, tunneling and explosives, and water supply and sewerage. In 1890, he was named Professor of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering in charge of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Trefftz was born in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, on 15 August 1920. She was raised in Loschwitz, Dresden from 1923, after her father was appointed as a professor of applied mechanics at TU Dresden in 1922. Between 1941 and 1945, Trefftz studied at TU Dresden and remained here until 1948, where she engaged in research and made assignments on theoretical physics, assisted by Friedrich Hund. In 1948, Trefftz became a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, where she researched the transition probabilities of spectral lines.
Here he saved money for college and eventually attended the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland in 1897. One lasting impression the experience gave him was when a professor gave him a zero on an essay for making one mistake, an experience he often mentioned. As East advanced in his studies, he decided that he was more interested in general science rather than applied mechanics. He transferred to the University of Illinois, and received his Bachelor of Science in 1900, Master of Science in 1904, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1907.
1361 Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1936,Otlăcan, p. 126, 127 he was stripped of his membership by the new communist regime in 1948, Păun Otiman, "1948–Anul imensei jertfe a Academiei Române", in Academica, Nr. 4 (31), December 2013, p. 123 but made a titular member in 1965. Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent, at the Romanian Academy site His numerous articles on theoretical and applied mechanics covered topics such as the principles of variational mechanics, the mechanics of ideal fluid flow, the theory of elasticity and astronomy.
2002-2013: Member of the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Chairman of the "History of World Culture" Research Council at the Russian Academy of Sciences, chairman of the judging panel at the "Triumph-Science" independent prize for the encouragement of achievements in science, member of the Public Committee for the Protection of Scientists, member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, supervisory board member of the INDEM Foundation, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. Was on the inaugural board of the Moskovskiye Novosti Newspaper.
Danielson joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1968. He moved to the University of California, San Diego in 1979, and to the Naval Postgraduate School in 1985. Danielson is an applied mathematician with contributions to structural mechanics, biomechanics, and orbital dynamics. Publications include: "Dynamic Buckling Loads of Imperfection Sensitive Structures from Perturbation Procedures", AIAA Journal 1506-1510 (1969); "Nonlinear Shell Theory with Finite Rotation and Stress Function Vectors", Journal of Applied Mechanics 1085 - 1090 (1972); "Human Skin as an Elastic Membrane", Journal of Biomechanics 539-546 (1973); "Tension Field Theory and the Stress in Stretched Skin", Journal of Biomechanics 135-142 (1975); "Tension Field Theories for Soft Tissues", Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 161-182 (1978); "A Beam Theory for Large Global Rotation, Moderate Local Rotation, and Small Strain", Journal of Applied Mechanics 179-184 (1988); "Fiber-optic Ellipsoidal Flextensional Hydrophones"; Journal of Lightwave Technology 1995-2002 (1989); "Parallelization of the Naval Space Surveillance Satellite Motion Model", Journal of Astronautical Sciences 207-216 (1993); "Semianalytic Satellite Theory", Naval Postgraduate School Technical Report NPS-MA-95-002 (1995); "The Naval Space Command Automatic Differential Correction Process", Proceedings of the AAS Astrodynamics Conference 991-1008 (1999); "Buckling of Stiffened Plates with Bulb Flat Flanges", International Journal of Solids and Structures 6407-6427 (2004).
Wu received his PhD in (1952), subsequently worked as a research fellow at Caltech for three years, and developed interest in water waves and hydrodynamics, due to inspiration from then Qian Xuesen and von Karman. After three years Wu became an assistant professor of applied mechanics (1955) at Caltech. In 1960, under the influence of G. I. Taylor and James Lighthill, Wu started to work on fish locomotion and bird flight (biofluiddynamics). During his time at Caltech he has also contributed to the field of naval architecture and been involved in the International Towing Tank Conferences.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa – an example of a problem due to deformation of soil. Slope instability issues for a temporary flood control levee in North Dakota, 2009 Earthwork in Germany Fox Glacier, New Zealand: Soil produced and transported by intense weathering and erosion. Soil mechanics is a branch of soil physics and applied mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids (usually air and water) and particles (usually clay, silt, sand, and gravel) but soil may also contain organic solids and other matter.
Dr. Frederick Stark Pearson was the son of Ambrose and Hannah (Edgerly) Pearson. He graduated from Tufts University in 1883 with an A.M.B. and received an A.M.M. degree one year later. Previously, for one year (1879–80), he was instructor in chemistry in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; later (1883–86), he was instructor in mathematics and applied mechanics at Tufts College. From college, he went on to develop the electric transportation system in Boston and, with electric powered streetcars of major importance, in 1894 he was appointed the head engineer for Metropolitan Street Railways in New York City.
Timoshenko moved to Stanford University in 1936 and Goodier eventually succeeded him there.Gillmor CS (2004) Fred Terman at Stanford: Building a Discipline, a University, and Silicon Valley, Stanford University Press. He was co-author of two classic books in this field:"Theory of Elasticity," with Timoshenko, 1951; and "Elasticity and Plasticity," with P. G. Hodge, Jr., 1958 and was awarded the Timoshenko Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1961. He was chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1945-46, and was elected Fellow of that Society in 1964.
Here he built up an internationally recognized group in structural stability, organized an IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) Symposium J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt (eds), Collapse: the buckling of structures in theory & practice, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1983. Proc IUTAM Symposium, University College London, August, 1982 and wrote an authoritative book on the underlying general theory.J. M. T. Thompson & G. W. Hunt, A general theory of elastic stability, Wiley, London, 1973 Two more books on the buckling of engineering structures quickly followed J. M. T. Thompson, Instabilities and catastrophes in science and engineering, Wiley, Chichester, 1982.
This was followed by six years as Visiting Professor at Surrey University where he took as interest in biological and other aspects of surface tension. He was also a founder member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and the Royal Academy of Engineering. He was an Elector to the Professorships of Engineering at Cambridge, and served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics and the International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. He was also a Member of the General Assembly of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
Following the death of his father, brother and two of his sisters in a mountaineering accident in 1898, Hopkinson switched to a career in engineering instead. In 1903, Hopkinson was elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics, and in 1910 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. During World War I he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, and opened a research establishment at Orford Ness where he and his team researched weapons, sights, and ammunition. In 1915, Hopkinson discovered a similarity relation between the masses of explosive charges and their effects at a given distance.
Bending of an -beam In applied mechanics, bending (also known as flexure) characterizes the behavior of a slender structural element subjected to an external load applied perpendicularly to a longitudinal axis of the element. The structural element is assumed to be such that at least one of its dimensions is a small fraction, typically 1/10 or less, of the other two.Boresi, A. P. and Schmidt, R. J. and Sidebottom, O. M., 1993, Advanced mechanics of materials, John Wiley and Sons, New York. When the length is considerably longer than the width and the thickness, the element is called a beam.
W. Chen and Y.C. Hon, "Numerical convergence of boundary knot method in the analysis of Helmholtz, modified Helmholtz, and convection-diffusion problems ", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 192, 1859–1875, 2003. regularized meshless method (RMM), modified MFS (MMFS),B. Sarler, "Solution of potential flow problems by the modified method of fundamental solutions: Formulations with the single layer and the double layer fundamental solutions", Eng Anal Bound Elem 2009;33(12): 1374–82. and singular boundary method (SBM) W. Chen, F.Z. Wang, "A method of fundamental solutions without fictitious boundary ", Eng Anal Bound Elem 2010;34(5): 530–32.
A wide variety of technical colleges and two-year professional schools award associate degrees, most notably in medical assistance, performing arts and teaching. The Ural department of the Russian Scientific Academy is represented in Izhevsk by several institutions, specializing in physics, applied mechanics and technical sciences, and economics, and the Institute of History, Language and Literature of Udmurtia does the same. Four out of five higher education institutes in the Udmurt Republic are located in Izhevsk: Udmurt State University, Izhevsk State Technical University, Agricultural Academy, and Izhevsk State Medical Academy. Each of these educational institutions admits foreign students.
Much of modern applied or engineering mechanics is based on Isaac Newton's laws of motion while the modern practice of their application can be traced back to Stephen Timoshenko, who is said to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. Within the practical sciences, applied mechanics is useful in formulating new ideas and theories, discovering and interpreting phenomena, and developing experimental and computational tools. In the application of the natural sciences, mechanics was said to be complemented by thermodynamics, the study of heat and more generally energy, and electromechanics, the study of electricity and magnetism.Thermodynamics - and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances.
Girling still manufacture disc brakes in Birmingham today. 1902: George Andrew Darby patents the first electrical heat detector and smoke detector. 1903: Birmingham-born patent lawyer Bertram Hopkinson is elected to the Cambridge chair in mechanism and applied mechanics, where he carries out early research on tank armour plating. An electric glow discharge tube featuring its most important characteristics: (a) An anode and cathode at each end (b) Aston Dark Space (c) Cathode glow (d) Cathode dark space (also called Crookes dark space, or Hittorf dark space) (e) Negative glow (f) Faraday space (g) Positive column (h) Anode glow (i) Anode dark space.
A mechanician is an engineer or a scientist working in the field of mechanics, or in a related or sub-field: engineering or computational mechanics, applied mechanics, geomechanics, biomechanics, and mechanics of materials. Names other than mechanician have been used occasionally, such as mechaniker and mechanicist. The term mechanician is also used by the Irish Navy to refer to junior engine room ratings. In the British Royal Navy, Chief Mechanicians and Mechanicians 1st Class were Chief Petty Officers, Mechanicians 2nd and 3rd Class were Petty Officers, Mechanicians 4th Class were Leading Ratings, and Mechanicians 5th Class were Able Ratings.
He was active in the struggle for an international copyright, and served a term as president of the American Publishers Copyright League. His firm published works by a range of noteworthy authors, including Hall Caine, Lewis Carroll, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Herbert Spencer, and John Stuart Mill, as well as leading American scientists and philosophers of his era. Among the reference books brought out by him were The New American Cyclopædia (1858–63); Webster's Spelling Book; Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography (1887–1900), Applied Mechanics (1897), and an Annual Cyclopœdia (1885–1903). He wrote Letters on International Copyright (1872).
The origins of the cold spray process goes back to the beginning of the 20th century, when it was developed and patented by Thurston. The process was further investigated by in the 1950s by Rocheville and was re- discovered in the 1980s at the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Science and developed as a coating technology. The process started to be employed for additive repair and fabrication of freeform structures, that can be considered as additive manufacturing, at the beginning of the 21st century, when the first commercial cold spray system was introduced in the market.
After completing a bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the University of Cape Town and a PhD degree at Cambridge University, Reddy pursued postdoctoral study at the University College London, then returned to Cape Town, where he migrated eventually from joint appointments in civil engineering and applied mathematics to a chair in applied mathematics. He served as dean of faculty of science at UCT for seven years from 1999, and thereafter was appointed to the South African Research Chair in Computational and Applied Mechanics. In 2018, Reddy has been elected as first President of the International Science Council.
In 1993, Pierre SuquetSuquet P., « Overall potentials and flow stresses of ideally plastic or power law materials », J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 41, 1993, pp. 981–1002 proposed a series of bollards for non-linear phase composites, using a method different from those available at the time (Willis, 1988, Ponte Castañeda, 1991), then showed in 1995Suquet P., « Overall properties of nonlinear composites: a modified secant moduli approach and its link with Ponte Casta\~neda's nonlinear variational procedure », C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, IIb, 320, 1995, pp. 563–571Ponte Castaneda P., Suquet P., « Nonlinear composites », Advances in Applied Mechanics, 34, 1998, pp.
In 1967 he became professor at the Department of Aerospace and Applied Mechanics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. It was during this period Cesar Sciammarella pioneered digital analysis of moiré fringes with the use of computers.C. Sciammarella, Automatic Data Retrieval and Data Processing Applied to fringe patterns utilized in experimental stress analysis”, presented in the seminar-in-depth pattern recognition studies, U.S.A. Army Material Command, Pattern Recognition Society, Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, June 9–10, 1969, Published in the Seminar proceedings. In 1985, he further developed this methodology by putting together an optical and a computer system for fringe pattern analysis.
Polyanin has been working at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1975 (professor since 1991). In 2004, he also became professor of mathematics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University. He is member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Mathematics and Mechanics Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Russian Federation. He is editor of the book series Differential and Integral Equations and Their Applications (Chapman & Hall – CRC Press, London – Boca Raton) and member of the editorial board of the journal Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering.
Carl T. Herakovich (born August 6, 1937) is an American retired engineering professor, college football player, coach and official. He served as the head football coach at Rose Polytechnic Institute—now known as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology—from 1962 to 1963, compiling a record of 3–13. Herakovich was the founding director of the NASA-Virginia Tech Composites Program at Virginia Tech and Director of Applied Mechanics and the Henry L Kinnier Professor of civil engineering at the University of Virginia. He led the nation in scoring in 1958 with 168 points in 8 games.
His academic career started at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where, from 1973 to 1982, he was an Assistant, then Associate Professor with tenure, in the Ocean Engineering Department. He joined the engineering faculty of UC Berkeley in 1982. From 1989 to 1996, he served as the chair of the Department of Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering. Since 1996, he has been appointed Distinguished Professor of Hydromechanics and Ocean Engineering in the department of Mechanical Engineering. He was Visiting Scientist/Professor at The University of Adelaide, South Australia (1981); Technical University of Hamburg (1988); Institute of Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University (1998); Gerhard Mercator University of Duisburg.
Pavel Petrovich Melnikov, 1865 Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow Pavel Petrovich Melnikov (Russian: Павел Петрович Мельников, – in Lyuban) was a Russian engineer and administrator who, in his capacity as Transport Minister, was in a large measure responsible for the introduction of railroad construction in Imperial Russia. In 1825 Melnikov graduated at the head of his class from the Institute of Transport Engineers in the School for Communication Routes with the rank of Lieutenant in the Corps of Transport Engineers. He remained as a teacher at the Institute, becoming professor of applied mechanics in 1833. He also took part in several construction projects to improve the Russian network of rivers and canals.
While in the U.S., Salvadori stored some goods in a safe deposit box and left the key with Raymond D. Mindlin, whom he had met in New York a few months before, after a conference about the activities of Picone's institute.Salvadori, M.G. "Activities of the Istituto Nazionale per le Applicazioni del Calcolo", 5th International Congress of Applied Mechanics, New York (1938)ne When he returned to Italy, he saw that there was no hope for a positive change in the political environment. The University of Rome and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) stripped him of his positions. After this, he and his wife left Italy for good, using the same visa.
Robert D. Moser is an American Professor of engineering, noted for his studies of spectral methods, turbulence and uncertainty quantification. He is the W. A. “Tex” Moncrief Jr. Chair in Computational Engineering and Sciences and is professor of mechanical engineering in thermal fluid systems at the University of Texas at Austin. Before coming to The University of Texas at Austin, he was a research scientist at the NASA-Ames Research Center and then a professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Illinois. In 2009 he was appointed deputy director of the PECOS center (Center for Predictive Engineering and Computational Sciences) at the University of Texas.
34 Henry & S. G. Lindeman obtained an interest in the soundboard calibration device patented in 1909 by piano dealer and inventor Frank B. Long, of Los Angeles. Marketed as the "Melodigrand", this was a method for maintaining or restoring the slight crowning of a soundboard through a series of screws pressed against blocks applied directly to the panel, like Steinway & Sons' lapsed and disused systemGeorge H. Benjamin, "Pianoforte" Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Applied Mechanics vol.II, D. Appleton and Company, New York 1884 p.537 and similar to the Mason & Hamlin "tension resonator", then in force and which is still manufactured and promoted by that firm.
Philip John Holmes (born May 24, 1945) is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. As a member of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, he formerly served as the interim chair until May 2007. Before moving to Princeton in 1994 he taught theoretical and applied mechanics at Cornell University from 1977 until 1994, when he was the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering and Professor of Mathematics. Holmes was educated in England at the University of Oxford, where he studied engineering from 1964 to 1967, and at the University of Southampton, where he obtained a Ph.D. in engineering in 1974.
In 1900, Rogowski began his studies at the RWTH Aachen, under Arnold Sommerfeld, who occupied the Chair for Applied Mechanics. He acquired his Vordiplom in 1902 and went on to study at the Danzig Technische Hochschule, where he was also a scientific assistant. He completed his studies at Danzig in 1904, but stayed on until 1908, when he went to be a scientific assistant at the Physikalisch Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin, specializing in high current technology, telecommunications technology, and electrical physics. After World War I, Rogowski returned to Aachen, in 1920, and became an ordinarius professor for theoretical electro-technology and director of the Institute for Electro- Technology.
Theodore von Karman with Lee Edson (1967) The Wind and Beyond, Little, Brown and Company Revival of internationalism after Hitler was described as follows: :[In 1946] we revived the International Congress of Applied Mechanics, which I had helped to create after World War I and which served as a forum for my scientific contest with Prandtl. In 1938, when the members voted to suspend further meetings, we also voted that if world conditions ever changed for the better, we would hold the next meeting in Paris. So eight years and a world war later we kept our word. The meeting was a great success in bringing together representatives of all nations.
The strategy leads to extra computational costs and makes the method is not as efficient as expected compared to the MFS. The second approachChen W, Gu Y, "Recent advances on singular boundary method", Joint International Workshop on Trefftz Method VI and Method of Fundamental Solution II, Taiwan 2011.Gu Y, Chen, W, "Improved singular boundary method for three dimensional potential problems", Chinese Journal of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2012, 44(2): 351-360 (in Chinese) is to employ a regularization technique to cancel the singularities of the fundamental solution and its derivatives. Consequently, the origin intensity factors can be determined directly without using any sample nodes.
He has had many government and industry contracts and research grants.George G. Adams faculty website Adams has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cooper Union (1969), and MS (1972) and PhD (1975) degrees in Mechanical Engineering (Applied Mechanics) from the University of California at Berkeley, where his advisor was David B. Bogy.George G. Adams on Mathematics Genealogy Project Adams is also an educator and administrator. He a fellow of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers and of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), where he is chair of the Executive Committee of the Tribology Division and founded its Contact Mechanics Technical Committee.
Jaeger was born on 28 January 1926, in Southport, England. Hhe graduated from the University of Cambridge (Gonville & Caius College), and then served for two years as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His doctorate and DSc were then from the University of London. He was successively Director of Studies in Engineering at Magdalene College, Cambridge; Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (1963); Professor of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University, Canada; Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of New Brunswick, Canada; Vice President (Academic) at Acadia University, Canada; and Vice President (Research) at the Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1994, he joined the faculty of National Taiwan University’s Institute of Applied Mechanics where he co- founded the Nano-Bio-MEMS research group. He is a well-recognized expert in the areas of flexible structure control, shock sensing, and sensor development due to his research work on distributed piezoelectric sensors and actuators. He has directed many research projects in the areas of ultra-high performance laser Doppler interferometers, laser encoders, sphere ellipsometry analyzers, curved distributed piezoelectric sensors/actuators, dot matrix writers, diffractive optical elements/systems, and laser writers. His specialty lies in systems integration which combines mechanics, optics, electronics, semiconductors, mechanisms, metrology, and interface systems to create new innovative systems.
Swanson graduated with a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in 1962 and 1963, respectively. He went on to earn a PhD in applied mechanics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966. Swanson began his engineering career in 1963 at Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory in Pittsburgh and was responsible for stress analysis of the components in NERVA nuclear reactor rockets and served as supervisor of the core analysis and methods group and the manager of the structural analysis group. While there he used and developed computer codes to model and predict transient stresses and displacements of the reactor system.
George Francis Carrier (May 4, 1918 – March 8, 2002) was an engineer and physicist, and the T. Jefferson Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics Emeritus of Harvard University. He was particularly noted for his ability to intuitively model a physical system and then deduce an analytical solution. He worked especially in the modeling of fluid mechanics, combustion, and tsunamis. Born in Millinocket, Maine, he received a master's in engineering degree in 1939 and a Ph.D. in 1944 from Cornell University with a dissertation in applied mechanics entitled Investigations in the Field of Aeolotropic Elasticity and the Bending of the Sectorial-Plate under the supervision of J. Norman Goodier.
Willis was born in London, a grandson of Francis Willis, studied in 1822–1826 at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from which he received his B.A., and in 1827 was ordained deacon and priest. In 1828 and 1829 he published two early papers on the mechanics of human speech, namely "On vowel sounds, and on reed-organ pipes" and "On the Mechanism of the Larynx". In 1830 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society. From 1837–1875 he served as Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge, and from 1853 onwards he was a lecturer in applied mechanics at the government school of mines.
He served three years on the faculty of the Air Force Institute of Technology while on active duty in the U.S. Air Force. His time on active duty was followed by a one-year post doctoral fellowship in Mechanics at the Johns Hopkins University. After serving a brief period on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Bowen joined the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Mathematical Sciences Department at Rice University in 1967 and worked there until 1983. During his last year at Rice, he served in a rotator position at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as the Division Director of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics.
Gad-el-Hak served as editor of eight international journals, including AIAA Journal, Applied Mechanics Reviews, and Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is additionally a contributing editor for Springer-Verlag’s Lecture Notes in Engineering and Lecture Notes in Physics, for McGraw-Hill’s Year Book of Science and Technology, and for CRC Press’s Mechanical Engineering Series. An editorial in honor of Gal-el-Hak titled "Homage to a Legendary Dynamicist on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday" appeared in the July 2020 issue of the Journal of Fluids Engineering. In 1998, Gad-el-Hak was named the 14th American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Freeman Scholar.
The Drucker–Prager criterion should not be confused with the earlier Drucker criterion Drucker, D. C. (1949) Relations of experiments to mathematical theories of plasticity, Journal of Applied Mechanics, vol. 16, pp. 349–357. which is independent of the pressure (I_1). The Drucker yield criterion has the form : f := J_2^3 - \alpha~J_3^2 - k^2 \le 0 where J_2 is the second invariant of the deviatoric stress, J_3 is the third invariant of the deviatoric stress, \alpha is a constant that lies between -27/8 and 9/4 (for the yield surface to be convex), k is a constant that varies with the value of \alpha.
This concept was introduced in January 1968 by Miomir Vukobratović at The Third All-Union Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Moscow. In the following works and papers that were produced between 1970 and 1972 it would then be called zero moment point and would be spread around the world. The zero moment point is a very important concept in the motion planning for biped robots. Since they have only two points of contact with the floor and they are supposed to walk, “run” or “jump” (in the motion context), their motion has to be planned concerning the dynamical stability of their whole body.
The J-integral represents a way to calculate the strain energy release rate, or work (energy) per unit fracture surface area, in a material.Van Vliet, Krystyn J. (2006); "3.032 Mechanical Behavior of Materials" The theoretical concept of J-integral was developed in 1967 by G. P. CherepanovG. P. Cherepanov, The propagation of cracks in a continuous medium, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 31(3), 1967, pp. 503–512. and independently in 1968 by James R. Rice,J. R. Rice, A Path Independent Integral and the Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 35, 1968, pp. 379–386.
Deformation of a plate highlighting the displacement, the mid-surface (red) and the normal to the mid-surface (blue) The Uflyand-Mindlin theory of vibrating plates is an extension of Kirchhoff–Love plate theory that takes into account shear deformations through-the-thickness of a plate. The theory was proposed in 1948 by Yakov Solomonovich UflyandUflyand, Ya. S.,1948, Wave Propagation by Transverse Vibrations of Beams and Plates, PMM: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 12, 287-300 (in Russian) (1916-1991) and in 1951 by Raymond MindlinR. D. Mindlin, 1951, Influence of rotatory inertia and shear on flexural motions of isotropic, elastic plates, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol.
Thanikachalam Sadagopan is an Indian cardiologist, medical academic, and former Vice-Chancellor at the Sri Ramachandra University. He is the chairman and director of the Cardiac Care Centre at Sri Ramachandra University and an adjunct professor at the Biomedical Engineering Group of the Department of Applied Mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. He is known for research on preventive cardiology and has published several articles on the subject. He has been involved in several multinational multicentric drug trials including the PURSE-HIS Epidemiological Study of the Tufts University School of Medicine and the study on Nuna Kadugu, a Siddha medicine used to treat various skin diseases.
Born in Glasgow on 23 December 1908, he was schooled at Albert Road Academy and Shawlands Academy in Glasgow before completing, in 1932, a BSc with first-class honours in mechanical engineering at the Royal Technical College (now the University of Strathclyde), Glasgow. He graduated with a PhD from Sheffield University in 1934, and (as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow) an MS from Illinois in 1936, where he studied impact stresses in beams. His early training was conducted with Mirrlees Watson Ltd, in Glasgow. As a mechanical engineer he was appointed as assistant lecturer in engineering and applied mechanics from 1936 to 1940 in the Royal Technical College in Glasgow.
In three years Khan earned two master's degrees – one in structural engineering and one in theoretical and applied mechanics – and a PhD in structural engineering with thesis titled Analytical study of relations among various design criteria for rectangular prestressed concrete beams. His hometown in Dhaka did not have any buildings taller than three stories. He also did not see his first skyscraper in person until the age of 21 years old, and he had not stepped inside a mid-rise building until he moved to the United States for graduate school. Despite this, the environment of his hometown in Dhaka later influenced his tube building concept, which was inspired by the bamboo that sprouted around Dhaka.
Inverse Problems is a peer-reviewed, broad-based interdisciplinary journal for pure and applied mathematicians and physicists produced by IOP Publishing. It combines theoretical, experimental and mathematical papers on inverse problems with numerical and practical approaches to their solution. The journal has a specialized relevance to workers in geophysics, optics, radar, acoustics, communication theory, signal processing and medical imaging. The editor-in- chief is Simon R. Arridge at University College London, London, UK. It is indexed in Applied Mechanics Reviews, INSPEC Information Services, ISI (Science Citation Index, SciSearch, ISI Alerting Services, COMPUMATH Citation Index, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences), Mathematical Reviews, Current Mathematical Publications, MathSciNet, Article@INIST, Engineering Index/Ei Compendex, Zentralblatt MATH, and VINITI Abstracts Journal.
Coriolis's name began to appear in the meteorological literature at the end of the 19th century, although the term "Coriolis force" was not used until the beginning of the 20th century. Today, the name Coriolis has become strongly associated with meteorology, but all major discoveries about the general circulation and the relation between the pressure and wind fields were made without knowledge about Gaspard Gustave Coriolis. Coriolis became professor of mechanics at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in 1829. Upon the death of Claude-Louis Navier in 1836, Coriolis succeeded him in the chair of applied mechanics at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and to Navier's place in the Académie des Sciences.
Since 1990, Shmukler has been combining active scientific work with teaching activities at O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, consecutively occupying the positions of: professor of the Building Designs Department, and since 2012 – the Head of Department. Shmukler gives lectures on the modern theory of building designs, including the latest advances in the field of construction and applied mechanics, computer science, materials and structural systems. The audience of his lectures consists of students, graduate students, doctoral students and university professors, as well as specialists in the construction field. Shmukler also works with graduate students and doctoral candidates of the Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University and Kharkiv State Technical University of Construction and Architecture.
His thesis was entitled Of the Celestial Motions. On the advice of America's leading civil engineer at the time, Loammi Baldwin, he returned to Paris and spent two years (1830-1832) as an auditeur libre at École des Ponts et Chaussées where he studied hydraulics under Gaspard de Prony and applied mechanics under Claude-Louis Navier. Returning to America in 1832, Storrow joined the engineering staff of the Boston and Lowell Railroad and went on to become the railroad's business agent in 1836. In 1845 Storrow left the Boston and Lowell to become the chief engineer at the Essex Company, a company organized to harness the water power of the Merrimack River downstream from Lowell, Massachusetts.
Reddy's teaching and research activities reflect his multidisciplinary perspectives, which he pursues largely through the Centre for Research in Computational and Applied Mechanics (CERECAM) at the University of Cape Town, a centre comprising academic staff and their students in five different departments, straddling the engineering disciplines, mathematics, and biomedical sciences. He has made major contributions to the analysis of problems in solid mechanics, most notably plasticity. He has developed and analysed new variational formulations, as well as associated solution algorithms, which have been implemented computationally, for both classical and gradient theories. The second area in which he has a substantial international reputation is in the development and analysis of mixed and related finite element methods.
In 1919 set up the Institute of Electricity and Applied Mechanics and was its director; he was also a teacher of the section of electrotechnics of the Escola del Treball. He was interested in photography, a new practice in the early 20th century, using it to illustrate his technical and scientific works as well as his personal life. The theories of quanta and relativity captivated him, and he invited such figures as Jacques Hadamard) (1921), Hermann Weyl (1921), Arnold Sommerfeld (1922), Tullio Levi-Civita (1922) and Albert Einstein (1923) to Barcelona. Einstein's Spanish visit, between 22 and 28 February 1923, was a notable success, organized by Terradas, the Catalan Government, the Mancomunitat, and Rafael Campalans.
Hüseyin Şehitoğlu (born October 23, 1957 in Istanbul, Turkey) is a Turkish mechanical engineer who holds the John, Alice, and Sarah Nyquist Endowed Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States. Hüseyin Şehitoğlu received a B.S. in mechanical engineering from City University London, in 1979, and a M.S., and Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. Professor Şehitoğlu served as department head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Illinois from 2004 to 2009. He was named a Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor from 2000-2004 and then a C.J. Gauthier Professor from 2004-2008.
The Royal Naval College, Greenwich, was founded by an Order in Council dated 16 January 1873. The establishment of its officers consisted of a President, who was always a Flag Officer; a Captain, Royal Navy; a Director of Studies; and Professors of Mathematics, Physical Science, Chemistry, Applied Mechanics, and Fortification. It was to take in officers who were already Sub-Lieutenants and to operate as "the university of the Navy".J. R. Hill, Bryan Ranft, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Royal Navy (2002), p. 269 The Director of Studies, a civilian, was in charge of an Academic Board, while the Captain of the College was a naval officer who acted as chief of staff.
He then went to Caltech, where he initially studied theoretical and applied mechanics, transferred to physics and worked with Kip S. Thorne, receiving a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1977. The title of his thesis was "The Generation of Gravitational Waves".Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, "Sandor J. Kovacs" While at Caltech, he was influenced by many interactions with Richard Feynman and George Zweig, when the latter was interested in the physics and physiology of human hearing. Determined to change from theoretical physics to medicine, Kovács entered an accelerated Ph.D. to M.D. program at the University of Miami that awarded him a medical degree after 22 months of concentrated study, in 1979.
Unlike traditional engineering disciplines, engineering science/physics is not necessarily confined to a particular branch of science, engineering or physics. Instead, engineering science/physics is meant to provide a more thorough grounding in applied physics for a selected specialty such as optics, quantum physics, materials science, applied mechanics, electronics, nanotechnology, microfabrication, microelectronics, computing, photonics, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, nuclear engineering, biophysics, control theory, aerodynamics, energy, solid-state physics, etc. It is the discipline devoted to creating and optimizing engineering solutions through enhanced understanding and integrated application of mathematical, scientific, statistical, and engineering principles. The discipline is also meant for cross-functionality and bridges the gap between theoretical science and practical engineering with emphasis in research and development, design, and analysis.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (1981); the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (1991); ASME (1998); the Aeronautical Society of India (1990); the Chinese Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics; the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (1995); the International Association of Computational Mechanics (1997); Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture (1993); and several other international academic and professional societies. He was elected to membership in the US National Academy of Engineering (1996); the Indian National Academy of Engineering (1997); The World Academy of Sciences (2003, Trieste); the European Academy of Sciences (2002); The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2008); the Academy of Athens, Greece (2013); and the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (2016).
Shkel was educated at the Moscow State University where in 1991 he got his diploma in applied mechanics. In 1997, he got his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and from 1997 to 1999 served as a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2000, Shkel is a faculty member at the University of California, Irvine, and from 2009 to 2013, he was on leave from academia serving as a Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Dr. Shkel has been on a number of editorial boards, most recently as Editor of IEEE/ASME Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (JMEMS) and the founding chair of the IEEE Inertial Sensors (INERTIAL).
Manolis Papadrakakis (Greek: Μανόλης Παπαδρακάκης; born in Heraklion, Crete), is a Greek Professor at the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, who works in computational mechanics. Papadrakakis received his Diploma in Civil Engineering from the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1971 and he continued his studies at the City University of London, UK, where he received an MSc in structural engineering (1975) and a PhD in computational mechanics (1978). His research activity is mainly focused on the development and the application of the latest computer methods and technology to structural engineering analysis and design. He is one of the Editors of the journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, published by Elsevier.
Charles Langley, and Alberto Santos-Dumont often tested ideas with paper as well as balsa models to confirm (in scale) their theories before putting them into practice. With time, many other designers have improved and developed the paper model, while using it as a fundamentally useful tool in aircraft design. One of the earliest known applied (as in compound structures and many other aerodynamic refinements) modern paper plane was in 1909. The construction of a paper airplane, by Ludwig Prandtl at the 1924 banquet of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, was dismissed as an artless exercise by Theodore von Kármán:Theodore von Kármán with Lee Edson (1967) The Wind and Beyond, page 38, Little, Brown and Company :Prandtl was also somewhat impulsive.
Nicholas Wood drew up an outline for a possible course lasting three years, intending for it to be purely practical and industrial in character. It was hoped that the college would be independent, however due to costs this was not feasible, hence it was decided that the College of Mining and Engineering was to be located at Durham in connection with Durham University.University of Durham King's College Mining Bulletin The University would provide and pay two professors; one of mathematics and natural philosophy and the other of applied mechanics, on the grounds that their service would be useful to both institutions. The College itself was required to provide three more; professors of Chemistry, Geology and Mine Working and Surveying and plan- drawing and Practical Engineering.
The building was of two storeys: the ground floor comprised vestibule, office, classrooms for applied mechanics, drawing, science, book keeping, shorthand and typing and the first floor comprised library, teachers room, classrooms for mathematics, art, millinery and dressmaking and cookery. The new building enabled an expansion of technical courses in Townsville but the Department of Public Instruction decided that some students also needed access to general subjects. At the time no public secondary school existed in Townsville and the Department decided to open a High School in conjunction with the Technical College. Due to the emphasis placed on vocational and technical training by the Department of Public Instruction, a formal high school system was not introduced in Queensland until February 1912.
Hoxton Division" Stuart as caricatured in Vanity Fair, October 1899 On 5 October 1899, his caricature appeared in Vanity Fair, accompanied by the following biographical note- :"Statesmen No.715 :Dr James Stuart, M.P. :He became a Fifeshire Scotchman six-and-fifty years ago; and having been doubly educated (at St. Andrews University and at Trinity, Cambridge) he fashioned himself into a Professor of Mechanics and Applied Mechanics. Then he tried to become Member for Cambridge University; but Cambridge University refusing the honour, he went to Hackney, which place he represented for precisely one year. Since then he has sat for the Hoxton Division of Shoreditch, while he lives in Grosvenor Road. :He neither shoots nor fishes, and he seldom takes a holiday; but he yachts, he cycles, he plays golf, and he sketches.
After returning to Albania he was active in the field of engineering and was among the founders of the modern University of Tirana in 1957 (even though the first academic institute, The Pedagogical Institute of Tirana was founded on December 20, 1946) and eventually he earned the position of vice-dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering. Thanks to his experience and intellectual profile he would be chosen as Director in the Directory of Professional Middle Education in the Council of Ministers of Albania. As a distinguished engineer and expert in the field of applied mechanics he also earned the position of the Chief Technology Officer of the Train Factory in Tirana. Nevertheless, he is most notable for his 27 years as the Principal of the Polytechnic High School of Tirana.
Silvio Canevazzi (16 March 1852, Saliceta San Giuliano, suburb of Modena – 13 March 1918, Bologna) was an Italian civil engineer and applied mathematician. Canevazzi studied at the mathematics faculty of the University of Modena from 1868 to 1870 and then at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he graduated in 1873 with a degree in civil engineering. In 1873 he was appointed an assistant to the professor in the chair of applied mechanics in civil engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome, and then an assistant to the chair of construction of bridges and roads. In 1875 he won a competition in engineering sponsored by the royal corps of mining engineers and was sent by the Italian ministry of agriculture to study at the school of mines in Liège, where he graduated in 1877.
In addition, since 1983 he served as a Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computer Modeling of the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas (now known as the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas). Since 1993, Vladimir was actively involved in research and teaching activity in France (Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris), the UK (University of Cambridge and University of Oxford), and the USA (WPI, University of Stanford, MIT, UMN). Professor Entov was a Corresponding Member of The Russian Academy of the Natural Sciences, a member of the Russian National Committee for the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, a member of the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics, and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics (Cambridge University Press).
He was born in Shanghai in March 1963, while his ancestral home is in Shashi District of Jingzhou, Hubei. He received his bachelor's degree in mechanics, master's degree in computational mathematics, and doctor's degree in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern Polytechnical University in 1983, 1988, and 1991, respectively. After graduation, he did post-doctoral research at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where he was promoted to assistant research fellow in 1993 and to researcher in 1999. In January 1995 he became a postdoc at the Center for Theoretical Physics of French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at Marseille and Center for Astrophysics of CEA at Saclay in France, he remained there until April 1997, when he moved to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a visiting scholar.
Buehler has a background in materials science, engineering science and applied mechanics. Buehler's research focuses on bottom-up simulation of structural and mechanical properties of biological, bioinspired and synthetic materials across multiple scales, with a specific focus on materials failure from a nanoscale and molecular perspective, and on developing a fundamental understanding of how functional material properties are created in natural, biological and synthetic materials. He is best known for the use of simple computational models to explain complex materials phenomena in biology and engineering from a bottom-up perspective. His recent work has focused on applying a computational materials science approach to study materials failure in biological systems, including the investigation of material breakdown in a variety of diseases and other extreme conditions across multiple time- and length-scales.
Song was born and raised in Jinan, Shandong, while his ancestral home is in Rushan, now under the jurisdiction of the City of Weihai.163.com. 宋林家世起底：出身寒微 妻女早已远走美国 His grandfather was a local official after the founding of People's Republic, he had four sons, Song Jiqing (), Song Jibin (), and Song Jibo (), his second son died young. His father, Song Jiqing, born in 1929 and joined the Young Pioneers of China at the age of 14, he took part in the Chinese Communist Revolution by age 18, after graduating from Wendeng Normal College he became a teacher and taught in Jinan, he died in there in 2002. Song graduated from Tongji University, majoring in applied mechanics.
H. Gao, S. M. Ali, and B. Lopez, "Efficient detection of delamination in multilayered structures using ultrasonic guided wave EMATs" in NDT&E; International Vol. 43 June 2010, pp: 316-322. # Laser weld inspection for automotive components # Weld inspection for coil join, tubes and pipesH. Gao, B. Lopez, S.M. Ali, J. Flora, and J. Monks (Innerspec Technologies), “Inline Testing of ERW Tubes Using Ultrasonic Guided Wave EMATs” in 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (USNCTAM2010-384) , State College, PA, USA, June 27-July 2, 2010. # Pipeline in-service inspectionM Hirao and H Ogi, ‘An SH-wave EMAT technique for gas pipeline inspection’, NDT&E; International 32 (1999) 127-132Stéphane Sainson, ‘Inspection en ligne des pipelines : principes et méthodes, Ed. Lavoisier 2007’ # Railroad rail and wheel inspection # Austenitic weld inspection for the power industry # Material characterizationH.
Buehler serves as editor or a member of the editorial board of several international journals including PLoS ONE, International Journal of Applied Mechanics, Acta Mechanica Sinica, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, and the Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience. Since 2011 he serves as a co-Editor in Chief of BioNanoScience, a journal he co-founded. He was elected to the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Royal Society Interface in 2012. He is the chair of the Biomechanics Committee at the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the ASCE, Co-Chair of the NanoEngineering in Medicine and Biology Steering Committee at the ASME, a member of the U.S. National Committee on Biomechanics, and participates in several other committees at ASME including the Committee on Mechanics in Biology and Medicine.
A popular rumour that was in circulation as early as the 1830s claimed that Lord Waterford was the main suspect behind the "Spring Heeled Jack" phenomenon. However, as that character's acts continued after his death in 1859, Waterford cannot be given sole responsibility. That Lord Waterford had some role has been accepted by several modern authors, who suggest that a humiliating experience with a woman and a police officer could have given him the idea of creating the character as a way of "getting even" with police and women in general. They speculate that he could have designed (with the help of friends who were experts in applied mechanics) some sort of apparatus for special spring-heeled boots, and that he may have practised fire-spitting techniques in order to increase the unnatural appearance of his character.
Einstein traveled the world to participate in hydraulic engineering conferences. He was at a symposium at Woods Hole in Massachusetts when he collapsed and died from heart failure on July 26, 1973. Einstein was honored by a Guggenheim Fellowship (1953), research awards from the American Society of Civil Engineers (1959 and 1960), the Berkeley Citation from the University of California (1971), the Certificate of Merit from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1971), and a certificate of recognition for more than 20 years of devoted and distinguished service to Applied Mechanics Reviews by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1972). His papers are held at the Water Resources Collections and Archives in the University of California, Riverside LibrariesInventory of the Hans Albert Einstein Papers, 1937–1972 Online Archive of California and in the University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections and Archives.
Satya Atluri is a world-renowned Indian-American engineer, educator, researcher and scientist in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering and computational sciences, who is currently the Presidential Chair & University Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University. Atluri was elected to the National Academy of Engineering of the US in 1996, the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 1997, the European Academy of Sciences in 2002, the World Academy of Sciences in 2003, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Stephen Timoshenko Institute) in 2008, and the oldest academy in the modern world, the Academy of Athens in 2013. He received the Padma Bhushan Award, the third highest civilian honor in the Republic of India, in the category of Science and Technology, from the president of India in 2013. His research interests lie in the areas of aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, applied mechanics & mathematics, Materials Genome, and computer modeling in engineering & sciences.
Schoenberg received a Ph.D. in applied mechanics from Columbia University in 1965, and later taught and performed research in theoretical geophysics at the City College of New York, New York University, Tel-Aviv University, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.The Ridgefield Press, Saturday, September 18, 2008 He joined Schlumberger Doll Research in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1978, where he worked on applications of elastic waves in borehole acoustic logging, vertical seismic profiling, and surface seismic. In 1990, he transferred to the seismic research department of Schlumberger Cambridge Research in Cambridge, U.K. where he worked on the application of surface seismic to characterization of the subsurface. His 1980 paper on "Elastic wave behavior across linear slip interfaces" in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America has found wide application in geophysics, the seismic characterization of fractures and fractured reservoirs, materials science and ultrasonic non-destructive testing.
In 1901 Inglis was made a fellow of King's College after writing a thesis entitled The Balancing of Engines, the first general treatment of the subject – which was becoming increasingly important due to the growing speeds of locomotives. In the same year, he received his Master of Arts degree and was accepted as an Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) associate member after winning the institution's Miller Prize for his student paper on The Geometrical Methods in Investigating Mechanical Problems. Inglis left his employment with Wolfe-Barry, having completed two years of his five-year apprenticeship, to return to King's College and become an assistant to James Alfred Ewing, professor of mechanism and applied mechanics. Inglis maintained his interest in engine balancing and filed a US patent on 16 April 1902 for an improved engine with the cylinders mounted end to end to balance out the forces acting between them.
Inglis continued to develop his theories on teaching engineering and wrote in the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1947 on the teaching of engineering mathematics: "Mathematics [required by engineers] though it must be sound and incisive as far as goes, need not be of that artistic and exalted quality which calls for the mentality of the real mathematician. It can be termed mathematics of the tin-opening variety, and in contrast to real mathematicians, engineers are more interested in the contents of the tin than in the elegance of the tin-opener employed". He published the textbook Applied Mechanics for Engineers in 1951, following which he spent three months as a visiting professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. His wife, Lady Eleanor Inglis, died on 1 April 1952, and Charles died eighteen days later at Southwold, Suffolk.
Alan Tayler was a distinguished applied mathematician who made important contributions in a wide range of areas (notably lubrication theory, surface gravity waves and viscous dissipation), but his key contribution to science was as the driving force behind the establishment of what is often called "mathematics-in-industry" or "industrial mathematics" (i.e. the application of mathematical approaches to the modeling and analysis of a wide range of real-world problems) as a recognized scientific discipline in its own right. His philosophy is perfectly exemplified by the Oxford (now European) Study Groups with Industry which he and Professor Leslie Fox created in 1968 and are still going strong today. His approach to mathematical modelling is described in his seminal monograph "Mathematical Models in Applied Mechanics" (Oxford University Press, 1986), and is commemorated by the annual Alan Tayler Lecture held at the St Catherine's College, Oxford in November each year.
The foundation ceremony of Ekaterinoslav's Higher Mining Technical School (EHMTS) was conducted on October 12, 1899, and in April of the next year construction of the institution's new educational buildings began. To begin with the Higher Mining Technical School had only two departments, those of mining and factory-production, but their academic curricula differed only very slightly (the main difference between the two faculties was to be found in the number of taught hours conducted for students). Nicholas II. The curriculum according to the “Regulation for the EHMTS” foresaw an initial total of 23 taught disciplines: theology, higher mathematics, analytical mechanics, construction mechanics, applied mechanics, mine-factory mechanics, physics, chemistry, electrical mechanics, mineralogy, geology and deposit science, geodesy, mining art, ore and coal dressing, surveying, metallurgy, technology of metals, design and geometric design, accounting and mine-factory economy, technical translation from German and French and first aid at accidents. The provision of training was undertaken by a total of 13 full-time employed teachers.
The torque is then related to the lever length, shaft diameter and measured force. The device is generally used over a range of engine speeds to obtain power and torque curves for the engine, since there is a non-linear relationship between torque and engine speed for most engine types. Power output in SI units may be calculated as follows: Rotary power (in newton-meters per second, N·m/s) = 2π × the distance from the center-line of the drum (the friction device) to the point of measurement (in meters, m) × rotational speed (in revolutions per second) × measured force (in newtons, N).Kemp’s Engineer’s Year BookReeds Applied Mechanics for Engineers Or in English units: Rotary power (in pound-feet per second, lbf·ft/s) = 2π × distance from center-line of the drum (the friction device) to the point of measurement (in feet, ft) × rotational speed (in revolutions per second) × measured force (in pounds, lbf).
He also received ASME's 2012 Timoshenko Medal, the highest recognition in the field of theoretical and applied mechanics, and the 2013 Alan Cottrell Gold Medal for his pioneering work on fracture and fatigue of materials. He received the Franklin Institute's 2013 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science for "outstanding contributions to our understanding of the mechanical behaviour of materials in applications ranging from large structures down to the atomic level." and for showing "how deformation of biological cells can be linked to human disease". In 2015, Suresh was awarded the IRI Medal by the Industrial Research Institute. Suresh is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain; the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences; the German Academy of Sciences; the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World; the Indian National Academy of Engineering; the Indian Academy of Sciences; the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and the French Academy of Sciences.
After studying theology at university, he returned to Neuchâtel – by then already a centre for clock and watchmaking – and worked to combine his interest in mathematics with the skills of applied mechanics used by the artisans of the watch industry. By the age of 26, Jaquet-Droz had gained a reputation for technical brilliance, and in 1758 he and his father-in-law, a craftsman named Abram Sandoz, travelled to Madrid to show off the skill of Neuchâtelois clockmakers at the Spanish court (Jaquet- Droz's so-called “Shepherd’s Clock” is still on display in one of the King of Spain's palace museums). Jaquet-Droz was by now wealthy enough to retreat from business life and concentrate on problems of applied mathematics, exemplified in his construction of incredibly complex mechanical figurines – the earliest of computers – designed to do particular tasks. He trained his son, Henri- Louis, and a colleague, Jean-Frédéric Leschot, to work with him; together, they produced the Writer, the Draughtsman and the Musician, and presented all three for the first time to the public in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1774.
Kant has published more than 135 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, six chapters in edited books, about 145 papers in conference proceedings, edited four books and serves on the editorial boards of five international journals: Structural Engineering & Mechanics - An International Journal (Techno-Press), the International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science and Mechanics (Taylor & Francis), Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences (Tech Science Press), Advances in Civil Engineering (Hindawi Publishing) and the International Journal of Computational Methods (World Scientific). He served a term on the editorial board of Computational Mechanics – An International Journal, has supervised 25 PhD theses and over 75 M.Tech dissertations. He established a research school of computational structural mechanics at IIT Bombay. Kant served two terms as president of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1999 and 2000), founded the Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IndACM) and the Indian Association for Structural Engineering (IASE) and organizes the biennial ICCMS (International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation) and SEC (Structural Engineering Convention) congresses in India.
William J. M. Rankine's 1858 Manual of Applied Mechanics defined angular momentum in the modern sense for the first time: :...a line whose length is proportional to the magnitude of the angular momentum, and whose direction is perpendicular to the plane of motion of the body and of the fixed point, and such, that when the motion of the body is viewed from the extremity of the line, the radius-vector of the body seems to have right-handed rotation. In an 1872 edition of the same book, Rankine stated that "The term angular momentum was introduced by Mr. Hayward," probably referring to R.B. Hayward's article On a Direct Method of estimating Velocities, Accelerations, and all similar Quantities with respect to Axes moveable in any manner in Space with Applications, which was introduced in 1856, and published in 1864. Rankine was mistaken, as numerous publications feature the term starting in the late 18th to early 19th centuries.see, for instance, ; However, Hayward's article apparently was the first use of the term and the concept seen by much of the English-speaking world.
Anandakrishnan is the president of the Madras Science Association and Tamil Nadu Academy of Sciences and a member of the Indian Society for Technical Education and the Indian Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is also associated as a member with organizations such as Madras School of Economics, A. M. M. Murugappa Chettiar Research Centre, C. P. R. Environmental Education Centre, Tamil Virtual University, Assam University, Tamil Nadu Foundation, Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG), Madras Management Association, Madras Craft Foundation, Tamil Nadu Council for Sustainable Livelihood, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, and International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil, Singapore, (INFITT). He is a member of the Managing Committee of the Tamil Nadu chapter of the Transparency International, a trustee of the Information Technology Bar of India, Chennai and holds the chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), Bangalore. Anandakrishnan is a former chairman of several University Grants Commission panel and committees such as Engineering and Technology panel, Committee on Specification of Degrees, Expert Committee to review the Maintenance Grant Norms for Delhi Colleges and the Expert Committee to examine the proposals for starting new Academic Staff Colleges.
His papers on electric oscillations were published in Annalen der Physik (1891–1895). In 1895, he became professor of applied mechanics and mathematical physics at the University of Stockholm where he had been lecturer since 1893. There he elucidated the fundamental interaction between fluid dynamics and thermodynamics. His major contribution was the primitive equations which are used in climate models.Before 1955: Numerical Models and the Prehistory of AGCMs It was this work that inspired both V. Walfrid Ekman and Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby to apply it to large-scale motions in the oceans and atmosphere and to make modern weather forecasting feasible. Bjerknes himself had foreseen the possible applications as early as 1904. This attack upon the meteorological problems from a hydrodynamical point of view was after 1906 supported by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., of which he became a research associate. Two introductory volumes, Statics and Kinematics, of a greater work, Dynamic Meteorology and Hydrography, were published in 1913 under the auspices of the Institution. In his 1906 work Fields of force, Bjerknes was the first to describe and mathematically derive translational forces on bubbles in an acoustic field, now known as Bjerknes forces.Bjerknes, V. (1906).
18 pp. 31–38. with Mindlin making reference to Uflyand's work. Hence, this theory has to be referred to us Uflyand-Mindlin plate theory, as is done in the handbook by ElishakoffElishakoff ,I.,2020, Handbook on Timoshenko-Ehrenfest Beam and Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Theories, World Scientific, Singapore, , and in papers by AndronovAndronov, I.V.,2007, The Analytic Properties and Uniqueness of the Solutions To Problems of Scattering by Compact Obstacles in an Infinite Plate Described by the Uflyand- Mindlin Model, Acoustical Physics, Vol. 53(6), 653-659, Elishakoff, Hache and ChallamelElishakoff, I., Hache, F. , Challamel N., 2017, Vibrations of Asymptotically and Variationally Based Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Models, International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 116, 58-73, LoktevLoktev, A.A.,2011, Dynamic Contact of a Spherical Center and Prestressed Orthtropic Uflyand-Mindlin Plate, Acta Mechanica, Vol. 222(1-2), 17-25, Rossikhin and ShitikovaRossikhin Y.A. and Shitikova M.V., Problem of the Impact Interaction of an Elastic Rod With a Uflyand-Mindlin Plate, International Applied Mechanics, Vol. 29(2), 118-125, 1993 and WojnarWojnar, R.,1979, Stress Equations of Motion for Uflyand-Mindlin Plate, Bulletin de l’ Academie Polonaise des Sciences – Serie des Sciences Techniques, Vol. 27(8-9), 731-740. In 1994, ElishakoffElishakoff, I, 1994, “Generalization of the Bolotin's dynamic edge effect method for vibration analysis of Mindlin plates,” Proceedings, the 1994 National Conference on Noise Control Engineering, (J.

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