Paul C. Paris

Paul Croce Paris (August 7, 1930 - January 15, 2017) was an American academic, engineering consultant and researcher in the field of mechanics and fatigue. He was known particularly for introducing fracture mechanics methods to the aviation industry, and for the empirical Paris' law relating crack growth rate to the amplitude of the stress intensity factor.[1]

Career

Paris was trained at Lehigh University in applied mechanics.[2] He was a faculty associate at Boeing in the summer of 1955, where he investigated the Comet fatigue (material) failure. His first paper[3] on fracture mechanics was famously rejected by top journals. Paris joined Washington University in St. Louis in 1976. In 2009 he became a professor emeritus and continued to teach.

Awards

  • Honorary Doctorate from University of Paris West
  • 2003 Crichlow Trust Prize by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics [4]
  • 2009 George Irwin Gold Medal by the International Conference on Fracture at Ottawa, Canada
  • 2016 August-Wöhler Medal by the European Structural Integrity Society (ESIS)

References

  1. ↑ Paris, Paul C.; Erdogan, F (1963). "A critical analysis of crack propagation laws". Journal of Basic Engineering, Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers: 528–534.
  2. ↑ Lutz, Diana. "Paul C. Paris, pioneer of fracture mechanics, honored for his work". Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ Paris, Paul C; Gomez, Mario P.; Anderson, William E. (1961). "A rational analytic theory of fatigue" (PDF). The Trend in Engineering. 13 (1): 9–14. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Walter J. and Angeline H. Crichlow Trust Prize Recipients". aiaa.org. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
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