Lectures - R. J. Sanford

R. J. Sanford, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

Lectures

A selection of seminar length lectures related to fracture mechanics that may be of interest to your organization is in preparation. The lectures planned at this time include:

	The Collocation Method in Fracture Mechanics – Then and Now The Year 2000 J. L. Swedlow Memorial Lecture presented at the 32nd National Symposium on Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics, June 14, 2000.

	On the General Solution of Plane Crack Problems in Westergaard Form This lecture is an update of the one presented at the ICES ’95 conference describing the mathematical basis for the generalized Westergaard formulation developed by the author and it relation to other mathematical descriptions of plane problems in elasticity containing cracks. This lecture is the most mathematical of the lectures in this series.

	*From Inglis to Irwin: An Illustrated History of Fracture Mechanics* Using illustrations from historical papers in fracture mechanics, this lecture presents the major milestones in the development of the modern theory of linear elastic fracture mechanics.

	*Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Crack Tip Stress Fields* A thorough understanding of the nature of the stress field in the neighborhood of a crack tip is fundamental to the development of the theory and application of linear elastic fracture mechanics. The role of the stress intensity factor, K, to this stress field is explored from a historical perspective in this lecture.

Please contact me about scheduling of any of these lectures as well as honorarium and travel expense requirements.

Contact me at: sanford@umd.edu

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