Alan Needleman
Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944 in Philadelphia ) is an American engineer.
Needleman studied at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1966 and at Harvard University with a master's degree in 1967 and a doctorate with John W. Hutchinson in 1970 (dissertation: Void growth and inclusion interaction in an elastic-plastic medium). He was then an instructor and assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1975 professor of applied mechanics at Brown University , where he was dean of the engineering faculty from 1988 to 1991. From 2009 he was Professor of Materials Science and Mechanics at the University of North Texas .
He deals with the numerical modeling of deformation and crack formation, especially in metals, and here the connection with the microscopic structure.
In 2011 he received the Timoshenko Medal , in 2006 he received the William Prager Medal and the Drucker Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a member of the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. He is an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Denmark. In 1977 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.
Fonts
- with S. Suresh, A. Mortensen: Fundamentals of metal-matrix composites, Butterworth-Heinemann 1993
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Alan Needleman in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Needleman, Alan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 2, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Philadelphia |