John D. Eshelby

John Douglas Eshelby , called Jock, (born December 21, 1916 in Puddington , Cheshire , † December 10, 1981 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire ) was a British mechanical engineer. He is known for contributions to micromechanics .

Life

He went to school in Eastbourne and was raised privately at home after illness (in Farrington Gurney ). He then studied physics at the University of Bristol , graduating in 1937. During World War II he worked for the Navy on the demagnetization of ships and then for the Royal Air Force in radar development (most recently he was Squadron Leader). After the war he received his PhD in physics from Bristol University with a thesis on dislocations. He then went to Cambridge University at the Cavendish Laboratory and became a Fellow of Churchill College and then Reader in Materials Science at the University of Sheffield , where he became Professor in 1971.

He dealt with the theory of elasticity and the mechanics of defects. The Eshelby theory of distortion energy is named after him.

In 1977 he received the Timoshenko Medal . In 1974 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In his spare time he collected books and studied Sanskrit .

Fonts

• The Force on an Elastic Singularity , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Volume 244, 1951, p. 87
• The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion, and Related Problems , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 241, 1957, pp. 376-396
• The Elastic Field Outside an Ellipsoidal Inclusion , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 252, 1959, pp. 561-569
• Xanthippi Markenscoff, Anurag Gupta (editor): Collected Works of JD Eshelby, Mechanics of Defects and Inhomogeneities , Springer Verlag 2006
• The continuum theory of lattice defects , in: Frederick Seitz , D. Turnbull (editor): Progress in Solid State Physics, Volume 3, Academic Press, New York, 1956, pp. 79-303

literature

• Obituary by BA Bilby, Biogr. Memoirs Fellows Royal Society, Volume 36, 1990, 126