Jan Drewes Achenbach Walter P. Murphy Professor McCormick School Professor Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics Director, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention Northwestern University
PERSONAL DATA
Birth date: August 20, 1935, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Married, no children
Nationality: USA (naturalized)
EDUCATION
l953-1959 Technische Hogeschool, Delft, aeronautical engineering
1959-1962 Stanford University Major: aeronautics and astronautics Minor: mathematics
DEGREES
PH.D. l962 Stanford University
ACADEMIC CAREER
1962-1963 Preceptor, Columbia University
1963-1966 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Northwestern University
1966-1969 Associate Professor of Civil Engineering Northwestern University
April l969 - Visiting Associate Professor June l969 University of California, La Jolla
September l969- Professor of Civil Engineering March l981 Northwestern University
September l970- Visiting Professor April 1971 Technische Hogeschool, Delft
March l981 - Walter P. Murphy Professor, Departments of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics, N.U.
September l985 - Director, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention
September l992 - McCormick School Professor, Northwestern University OTHER ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
September l981 - Consulting Professor, Huazhong Institute of Science and Technology Wuhan, Hubei, Peoples Republic of China
HONORS:
Member National Academy of Engineering (1982) Member National Academy of Sciences (1992) Fellow American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1994) Corresponding Member Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
MAJOR AWARDS
Ir. Cornelis Gelderman Foundation Award (Netherlands), 1970 1975 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Research Award Fellow Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, l988 Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1992 McDonnell-Douglas Model of Excellence Award, 1996 Distinguished Service Medal, American Academy of Mechanica, 1997
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
AGU, ASNT, IEEE, Member American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Fellow Acoustical Society of America, Fellow American Association for the Advance of Science, Fellow
MAJOR OFFICES
President - Association of Chairmen of Departments of Mechanics (1971-1973)
Member - U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1972-1978, 1986 - )
President - American Academy of Mechanics (1978-1979)
Member Executive Committee Applied Mechanics Division ASME, 1979 - 1985
Chairman ASME Thurston Lecture Committee, l987-89
Member Congress Committee International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics(1984-1994)
Member Electorate Nominating Committee American Association for the Advancement of Science (1990 - 1994) Member at Large Section Committee of the Section of Engineering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994-1998)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
June 1969 - Acting Editor September l970 International Journal of Solids and Structures February 1970 - Member Editorial Advisory Board of ELASTICITY
January 1971 - Member Board of Editors International Journal of Solids and Structures
1971-'76 Associate Editor 1982-'83 Journal of Applied Mechanics
July l978 - Member Editorial Board Journal of Thermal Stresses
January 1979 - Editor-in-Chief WAVE MOTION, an International Journal Reporting Research on Wave Phenomena
1980 - General Editor: Mechanics and Mathematical Methods - Series of Handbooks, North-Holland Publishing Co.
1982 Member Board of Editors: North-Holland Series in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
1982 - 1983 Chairman Editorial Committee: 50th Anniversary Issue Journal of Applied Mechanics
1988 - Member International Advisory Editorial Board: Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica
1989 - Editorial Board: Research in Nondestructive Evaluation
1989 - Editorial Board: Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation
1994 - Contributing Editor: Mechanics of Composite Materials and Structures
PUBLICATIONS
Books: Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids, North-Holland Publishing Company/American Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York, 1973.
A Theory of Elasticity with Microstructure for Directionally Reinforced Composites, CISM Monograph 167, Springer Verlag, Vienna/New York/1975.
Application of Elastic Waves in Electrical Devices, Non- Destructive Testing and Seismology (Editor with Y.H. Pao and H.F. Tiersten), Northwestern University, l976. Modern Problems in Elastic Wave Propagation (editor with J. Miklowitz), Wiley Interscience, New York, 1978.
Ray Methods for Waves in Elastic Solids - With applications to scattering by cracks (with A.K. Gautesen and H. McMaken), Pitman Advanced Publishing Program, Boston/London/Melbourne, 1982.
Solid Mechanics Research for Quantitative Non-Destructive Evaluation: (editor, with Y. Rajapakse), Kluwer Academic Pub. Group, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster, 1987.
Elastic Waves and Ultrasonic Nondestructive Evaluation: (editor, with S.K. Datta and Y. Rajapakse), North-Holland, Amsterdam 1990.
The Evaluation of Materials and Structures by Quantitative Ultrasonics, CISM Courses and Lectures No. 330, Springer - Verlag, Wien - New York (1993).
More than 350 papers in Technical Journals and Proceedings of Conferences.
CONSULTING
Shure Brothers, Evanston, 1974, 1981. Argonne National Laboratory, 1975-1981. Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, 1982-1986. J.A. Jones Applied Research Co., Charlotte, NC, 1982. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Palo Alto, CA, 1982-1988. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1984-1988. National Center for Composite Materials Research, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, 1991 -1992. Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, IL, 1991 -1994. Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo, 1991 -
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Propagation of mechanical disturbances in solids. Current research activities are in ultrasonic methods in quantitative non-destructive evaluation, damage mechanisms in composites and vibrations of complex structures. Has developed methods for flaw detection and characterization by ultrasonic scattering methods. Work is both analytical and experimental in nature. Past work in fracture mechanics has been primarily on dynamic fracture, with an emphasis on the study of ductility effects. Has also carried out research on earthquake mechanisms, on the mechanical behavior of composite materials under dynamic loading conditions and on the vibrations of solid propellant rockets. Is or has been Principal Investigator for projects sponsored by: NSF (Solid Mechanics Program, Earth Sciences Div.,RANN) Office of Naval Research, ARMY Office of Research (Durham), Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ERDA, Wright- Patterson AFB, DARPA, Rockwell International Science Center, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Ames Laboratory, Department of Energy (BED), Bandag, Inc., National Institute for Standards and Technology, Federal Aviation Administration.