Eli Sternberg
Eli Sternberg | |
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Born |
13 November 1917[1] Vienna, Austria |
Died |
8 October 1988 (aged 70) Pasadena, California |
Scientific career | |
Fields | elasticity |
Institutions |
Illinois Institute of Technology Brown University Caltech |
Doctoral advisor | Michael Sadowsky |
Doctoral students | Morton Gurtin[2] |
Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death.[1] He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a dissertation entitled Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Applications. He made contributions widely in elasticity, especially in mathematical analysis, the theory of stress concentrations, thermo-elasticity, and visco-elasticity.[2]
He was in 1956 a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Technology and for the academic year 1963–1964 a Guggenheim Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo. For the academic year 1970-1971 he was a visiting professor in Chile and in 1968 at the University of Glasgow.
Sternberg became in 1951 a full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1957 a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, and in 1964 a professor of mechanics at Caltech, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1988.
Honors and awards
- National Academy of Engineering[1]
- National Academy of Sciences[1]
- Timoshenko Medal[1]
Selected publications
- with M. A. Sadowsky: "Stress concentration around an ellipsoidal cavity in an infinite body under arbitrary plane stress perpendicular of the axis of revolution of cavity". J. Applied Mechanics. 14: 191–201. 1947.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: "Stress concentration around a triaxial ellipsoidal cavity". J. Applied Mechanics. 16: 149–157. 1949.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: "Elliptic integral representation of axially symmetric flows". Quart. Appl. Math. 8: 113–126. 1950. MR 0037425.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On the method of inversion in the two-dimensional theory of elasticity". Quart. Appl. Math. 8: 392–395. 1951. MR 0039485.
- with F. Rosenthal: "The elastic sphere under concentrated loads". J. Applied Mechanics. vol. 19: 413–421. 1952.
- "On Saint-Venant´s principle". Quart. Appl. Math. 11: 393–402. 1954. MR 0058414.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On the Completeness of the Boussinesq-Papkovich Stress Functions". J. Rat. Mech. Analysis. 5: 735–746. 1956. JSTOR 24900202.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On stress functions for elastokinetics and the integration of the repeated wave equation". Quart. Appl. Math. 15: 149–153. 1957. MR 0091657.
- with E. L. McDowell: "On the steady-state thermoelastic problem for the half-space". Quart. Appl. Math,. 14: 381–398. 1957. MR 0087367.
- with J. G. Chakravorty: "Thermal shock in an elastic body with a spherical cavity". Quart. Appl. Math. 17: 205–218. 1959. MR 0107424.
- "On some recent developments in the linear theory of elasticity". In: Structural Mechanics, Proc. First Symposium Naval Structural Mechanics. Pergamon Press. 1960.
- "On the integration of the equations of motion in classical elasticity". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 6: 34–50. 1960.
- with M. E. Gurtin: "A note on uniqueness in classical elastodynamics". Quart. Appl. Math. 19: 169–171. 1961. MR 0129226.
- with Rokurō Muki: "Note on an asymptotic property of solutions to a class of Fredholm integral equations". Quart. Appl. Math. 28: 277–281. 1970. MR 0264346.
References
External links
- Eli Sternberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- NC State Univ. Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (Eli Sternberg 1987)
- National Academy of Engineering membership listing