Morton Gurtin

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Morton Edward Gurtin (born March 7, 1934 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American engineer specializing in mechanics and materials science.

Gurtin studied mechanical engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a bachelor's degree in 1955 and received his doctorate in applied mathematics ( Some Theorems In The Linear Theory Of Elasticity ) from Brown University under Eli Sternberg in 1961 . Before that he was an engineer at Douglas Aircraft in 1955/56 and at General Electric from 1956 to 1959 . In 1962 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at Brown University and from 1966 he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University .

He was visiting professor in Glasgow, Strathclyde, Poitiers, Paris, Istanbul, Pisa, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City and at Simon Fraser University, among others, and was an advisor to Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories . In 1974 he was a Guggenheim Fellow .

He dealt with the fundamentals of nonlinear continuum mechanics and thermodynamics following the investigations of Clifford Truesdell and Walter Noll , using mathematical methods, for example from the theory of dynamic systems and geometric dimension theory. From the 1980s onwards he dealt with the dynamics of phase transitions, fracture dynamics, crystalline plasticity, diffusion at the atomic level and micromechanics, introducing non-classical macroscopic forces that result from configurations, for example the kinetics of phase boundaries, or from microscopic description .

In 2004 he received the Tymoshenko Medal . In 1994 he received an honorary doctorate from La Sapienza University in Rome . In 2001 he received the Cataldo e Angiola Angostinelli Prize from the Accademia dei Lincei .

Fonts

  • The linear theory of elasticity , in Siegfried Flügge, Clifford Truesdell (Ed.) Handbuch der Physik, Vol. VIa / 2, Festkörpermechanik / Mechanics of Solids, Springer Verlag 1972
  • An introduction to continuum mechanics , Academic Press 1981
  • Thermomechanics of Evolving Phase Boundaries in the Plane , Oxford University Press, 1993
  • Configurational Force as a Basic Concept of Continuum Physics , Springer-Verlag, 2000
  • with Eliot Fried, Lallit Anand: The mechanics and thermodynamics of continua , Cambridge University Press 2010
  • Editor with Geoffrey B. McFadden: On the evolution of phase boundaries , Springer Verlag 1992
  • Editor Phase transformations and material instabilities in solids , Academic Press 1984
  • Topics in finite elasticity , SIAM 1981

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Gurtin, Morton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gurtin, Morton Edward (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer specializing in mechanics and materials science
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Jersey City , New Jersey