Rodney Hill

Rodney Hill , (born June 11, 1921 in Yorkshire , † February 2, 2011 ) was a British engineer and applied mathematician .

Hill studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge (Gaius and Gonville College). During the Second World War he was involved in war research and worked in a group of theorists led by Nevill Francis Mott , which dealt with the penetration of artillery projectiles into armor . This gave rise to his interest in plasticity theory , which he continued to study with E. Orowan at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge after the war . He applied the theory of plasticity to forming processes, among other things . In 1948 he received his doctorate from Cambridge. He published his dissertation in an expanded form in 1950 as the book The mathematical theory of plasticity , which soon became a standard work. From 1949 he headed a department at the Metal Flow Research Laboratory of the British Iron and Steel Association. In 1953 he became Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Nottingham . In 1963 he was back in Cambridge, where he continued his research in applied mechanics .

From 1952 he was editor of the newly founded Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids .

In 1961 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society , whose Royal Medal he received in 1993, and in 1978 he received an honorary doctorate (D. Sc.) From the University of Bath .

The Rodney Hill Prize for Mechanics, which was awarded for the first time in 2008, was donated in his honor by Verlag Elsevier and is awarded together with the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM).

Fonts

• The mathematical theory of plasticity , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1950

literature

• K. Osakada History of plasticity and metal forming analysis , 9th International Conference on Technology of Plasticity 2008