Lloyd H. Donnell
Lloyd Hamilton Donnell (born May 20, 1895 in Kent's Hill , Maine , † November 7, 1997 in Palo Alto ) was an American mechanical engineer.
Donnell received in 1915 his Bachelor Accounts in Mechanical Engineering ( Mechanical Engineering ) at the University of Michigan and was at there in 1930 Stephen Timoshenko doctorate . He taught at the University of Michigan and was from 1930 to 1933 at the Aeronautical Laboratory of Caltech with Theodore von Kármán . From 1933 to 1939 he was an engineer at Goodyear , where he designed airships . From 1939 to 1962 he was a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and then at Stanford University . In 1974 he was visiting professor at the University of Houston .
Donnell is known for developing a theory named after him of thin (cylindrical) shells with application to the design of monocoques in airplanes and cars. He also dealt with dynamics, elasticity theory , stability issues and wave propagation.
He holds an honorary doctorate from the Illinois Institute of Technology, received the Wooster Reed Warner Medal from the ASME ( American Society of Mechanical Engineers ) in 1960 , the Von Karman Medal in 1968 and the ASME Medal in 1969.
He was the founding editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews.
Fonts
- Beams, Plates and Shells. McGraw Hill, 1976
- Stability of thin walled tubes under torsion. NACA Report 479, National Advisory Committee on Astronautics, Washington DC
- A new theory of buckling of thin cylinders under axial pressure. In: Transactions ASME. Volume 56, 1934, pp. 795-806
- with CC Wan: Effect of imperfections on buckling of thin cylinders and columns under axial compression. In: J. Applied Mechanics. Volume 17, 1950, pp. 73-83
- Effect of imperfections on buckling of thin cylinders under external pressure. In: J. Applied Mechanics. Volume 23, 1956, pp. 569-575
- Effect of imperfections on buckling of thin cylinders with fixed edges under external pressure. In: Proc. 3. US National Congress Applied Mechanics, June 11-14, 1958, Providence, Rhode Island. ASME, New York 1958, pp. 305-311
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 988 (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
Web links
- Lloyd Hamilton Donnell in nndb (English)
- Professor Lloyd Hamilton Donnell (1895–1997) biography, pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Donnell, Lloyd H. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Donnell, Lloyd Hamilton (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mechanical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kent's Hill , Maine |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 1997 |
| Place of death | Palo Alto |