Eli Sternberg
Eli Sternberg (born 13. November 1917 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 8. October 1988 in Pasadena , California ) was a from Austria originating American Engineering Scientists of Mechanics.
Life
Eli Sternberg was the son of the lawyer Philipp Sternberg (1892-1948) and Eva Makowska, his brother Daniel Sternberg , born in 1913, became a musician. Sternberg attended the Realgymnasium in Vienna (Matura 1936) and studied architecture at the Technical University of Vienna until the occupation by the National Socialists , which forced him to emigrate to London in 1938 . He continued his studies there and went to the United States in 1939, where he received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from North Carolina State College in 1941 . He then studied at the Illinois Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in 1945 under Michael A. Sadowsky ( Nonlinear theory of elasticity and applications ). In 1951 he was given a full professorship there. In 1957 he became professor of applied mathematics at Brown University and in 1964 professor of mechanics at Caltech . In 1988 he retired.
In 1956 he was a Fulbright Fellow at the Technical University of Delft and 1963/1964 as a Guggenheim Fellow in Japan ( Keiō University in Tokyo ). 1970/1971 he was visiting professor in Chile and 1968 at the University of Glasgow .
Sternberg was a leading theorist of elasticity theory in the United States. For example, he dealt with stress concentrations around holes and cavities and elastic solutions with load concentrations, with static and dynamic thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity and thermo-viscoelasticity, the effect of finite deformation on stress distribution, stress distribution in fiber-reinforced materials and mathematical questions of the uniqueness and completeness of solutions in the Elasticity theory. In 1954 he gave a mathematical proof of the principle of St. Venant in the version of Richard von Mises .
In 1985 he received the Tymoshenko Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1959). Sternberg received honorary degrees from North Carolina State University and the Technion . He had been a US citizen since 1945.
Morton Gurtin was one of his PhD students .
Fonts
- On some recent developments in the linear theory of elasticity , in: Structural Mechanics , Proc. First Symposium Naval Structural Mechanics, Pergamon Press 1960
- On Saint-Venant's principle , quart. Appl. Math., Vol. 11, 1954, pp. 393-402
- On the integration of the equations of motion in classical elasticity , Archives for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 6, 1960, pp. 34-50
- with Eubanks: On the Completeness of the Boussinesq-Papkovitch Stress Functions , J. Rat. Mech. Analysis, Volume 5, 1956, 735
- with Sadowsky: Stress concentration around an ellipsoidal cavity in an infinite body under arbitrary plane stress perpendicular of the axis of revolution of cavity , J. Applied Mechanics, Volume 14, 1947, pp. 191-201, and Stress concentration around a triaxial ellipsoidal cavity , Volume 16, 1949, 149 (stress distribution around an elliptical cavity)
- with Rosenthal: The elastic sphere under concentrated loads , J. Applied Mechanics, Volume 19, 1952, 413-421 (elastic sphere with point load)
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1129
- Page at North Carolina State University
- Obituary at the NAE by Bernard Budiansky, James Knowles
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sternberg, Eli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian-American engineering scientist for mechanics |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 13, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1988 |
| Place of death | Pasadena , California |