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Technologie / ACHENBACH, JAN D.

achenbach

Position

Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Director, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention
Northwestern University
Evanston, U.S.A.

Thèmes de recherche

Propagation of mechanical disturbances in solids. Current research activities are in ultrasonic methods in quantitative non-destructive evaluation, damage mechanisms in composites and vibrations of complex structures. Has developed methods for
flaw detection and characterization by ultrasonic scattering methods. Work is both analytical and experimental in nature. Past work in fracture mechanics has been primarily on dynamic fracture, with an emphasis on the study of ductility effects.

Has also carried out research on earthquake mechanisms, on the mechanical behavior of composite materials under dynamic loading conditions and on the vibrations of solid propellant rockets.

Is or has been Principal Investigator for projects sponsored by: NSF (Solid Mechanics Program, Earth Sciences Div.,RANN) Office of Naval Research, ARMY Office of Research (Durham), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ERDA, Wright-Patterson AFB, DARPA,
Rockwell International Science Center, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy (BED), Bandag, Inc., National Institute for Standards and Technology, Federal Aviation Administration.

Prix et récompenses

Honors :

Member National Academy of Engineering (1982)
Member National Academy of Sciences (1992)
Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994)
Corresponding Member Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (1999)

Major awards :

Ir. Cornelis Gelderman Foundation Award (Netherlands), 1970
1975 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award
Fellow Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, l988
Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992
McDonnell-Douglas Model of Excellence Award, 1996
Distinguished Service Medal, American Academy of Mechanica, 1997
2003 National Medal of Technology Laureate

Professional societies :

AGU, ASNT, IEEE, Member
American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow
Acoustical Society of America, Fellow
American Association for the Advance of Science, Fellow

Publications

Books :

Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids, North-Holland Publishing
Company/American Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York, 1973.

A Theory of Elasticity with Microstructure for Directionally Reinforced
Composites, CISM Monograph 167, Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York, 1975.

Application of Elastic Waves in Electrical Devices, Non-Destructive
Testing and Seismology (Editor with Y.H. Pao and H.F. Tiersten), Northwestern University, 1976.

Modern Problems in Elastic Wave Propagation (editor with J. Miklowitz),
Wiley Interscience, New York, 1978.

Ray Methods for Waves in Elastic Solids - With applications to scattering by cracks (with A.K. Gautesen and H. McMaken), Pitman Advanced Publishing Program, Boston/London/Melbourne, 1982.

Solid Mechanics Research for Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation (editor, with Y. Rajapakse), Kluwer Academic Pub. Group,
Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster, 1987.

Elastic Waves and Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation: (editor, with S.K. Datta and Y. Rajapakse), North-Holland, Amsterdam 1990.

The Evaluation of Materials and Structures by Quantitative Ultrasonics,
CISM Courses and Lectures No. 330, Springer - Verlag, Wien - New York, 1993.

More than 350 papers in Technical Journals and Proceedings of Conferences.