James N. Goodier
James Norman Goodier (born October 17, 1905 in Preston (Lancashire) , † November 5, 1969 in Nottingham ) was a British-American engineer for mechanics.
Goodier studied engineering on a scholarship at Cambridge University , where he won several awards (including the Rex Moir Prize for best engineering student) and in 1927 made his bachelor's degree with top marks. He then continued his studies with CE Inglis in Cambridge and went on a Commonwealth scholarship in 1929 to Stephen Timoshenko at the University of Michigan . In 1931 he received both a Phil. D. at Cambridge and an Sc. D. from the University of Michigan. From 1931 to 1938 he was a Research Fellow in Applied Mechanics at the Ontario Research Foundation in Toronto . In 1938 he became professor of applied mechanics at Cornell University , where he also became head of the faculty of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering. In 1946 he became a US citizen and in 1947 he became Professor of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University (replacing Timoshenko), where he stayed for the rest of his career and headed the Engineering Mechanics department from 1954 to 1965.
He has received several awards for his teaching, including the George Westinghouse Award for Engineering Education. He was primarily considered a theorist, but had broad practical experience as a consulting engineer. He dealt with elasticity theory and elastic stability problems, elastic-plastic dynamic buckling problems, thermal stresses, wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics.
In 1967 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan. In 1945/46 he was head of the Applied Mechanics section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and in 1964 he became a Fellow of ASME. In 1955/56 he received a Fulbright Award for his research at Cambridge University.
In 1931 he married the daughter of Stephen Timoshenko, Marina Timoshenko, with whom he had a son. He had broad interests (music, art, literature, philosophy and theology) and played the piano.
Fonts
- with Stephen Timoshenko Theory of Elasticity , McGraw Hill 1951, 3rd edition 1969
- with PG Hodge Elasticity and Plasticity. The mathematical theory of plasticity , Wiley 1958
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| SURNAME | Goodier, James N. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goodier, James Norman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-American mechanical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th October 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Preston (Lancashire) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th November 1969 |
| Place of death | at Nottingham |