Kerry S. Havner
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Professor Emeritus of Civil EngineeringMechanics and Materials Office: 300 Mann Hall |
Research Interests
Mechanics of solids, crystal mechanics, theory of plasticity of polycrystalline metals (particularly at finite strain), limit analysis.
Representative Publications
On the mechanics of crystalline solids. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 21, 383-94, 1973.
On convergence of the finite element method for a class of elastic-plastic solids (with H.P. Patel). Q. Appl. Math. 34, 59-68, 1976.
Application of a discrete polycrystal model to the analysis of cyclic straining in copper (with C. Singh). Int. J. Solids Struct. 13, 395-407, 1977.
A simple mathematical theory of finite distortional latent hardening in single crystals (with A.H. Shalaby). Proc. R. Soc. A 358, 47-70, 1977.
Theoretical latent hardening in crystals - I. General equations for tension and compression with application to f.c.c. crystals in tension (with G.S. Baker & R.F. Vause). J. Mech. Phys. Solids 27, 33-50, 1979.
Perspectives in the mechanics of elastoplastic crystals (with R. Hill ). J. Mech. Phys. Solids 30, 5-22, 1982.
Theoretical analysis of the channel die compression test - I. General considerations and finite deformation of f.c.c. crystals in stable lattice orientations (with P.L. Sue). J. Mech. Phys. Solids 32, 417-42, 1984.
Analysis of a family of unstable lattice orientations in (110) channel die compression (with D. Chidambarrao). Acta Mech. 69, 243-69, 1987.
A theory of minimum plastic spin in crystal mechanics (with S. Fuh). Proc. R. Soc. A 422, 193-239, 1989.
Finite Plastic Deformation of Crystalline Solids, Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992.
G. I. Taylor revisited: the cone of unextended directions in double slip. Int. J. Plasticity 9, 159-79, 1993.
Exact stress states and velocity fields in bicrystals at the yield point in channel die compression (with S.-C. Wu). Z. angew. Math. Phys. 46, S446-65, 1995.
Analytical and numerical investigation of nonuniform straining and subgrain initiation in bicrystals in channel die compression (with S.-C. Wu). Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 355, 1905-43, 1997.
Numerical studies of nonuniform deformation, stress state evolution, and subgrain formation in bicrystals in (110) channel die compression (with Pingao Yu). J. Mech. Phys. Solids 49, 173-208, 2001.
On the onset of necking in the tensile test. Int. J. Plasticity 20, 965-78, 2004.
On lattice and material-frame rotations and crystal hardening in high-symmetry axial loading, Philosophical Magazine 85, 2861-2894, 2005.
Channel die compression revisited: Application of a set of basic crystal hardening inequalities to (110) loading. Mech. Materials 39, 610-622, 2007.
Further investigation of crystal hardening inequalities in (110) channel die compression, Proc. R. Soc. A 464, 1955-1982, 2008.
Professional Memberships
American Society of Civil Engineers, Fellow
American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Sigma Xi
Society of Engineering Science
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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