John D. Eshelby

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John D. Eshelby is a scientist in micromechanics, awarded by the Timoshenko Medal in 1977.

The scientific phenomenon called "Eshelby's inclusion" is named after this scientist, and points at a polyhedral subdomain in an infinite homogeneous body, subjected to a uniform transformation strain.

[edit] Bibliography (incomplete)

  • The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion - Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A241 (1957), p 376
  • Collected Works of J. D. Eshelby, Mechanics of Defects and Inhomogeneities, Springer (2006), Xanthippi Markenscoff and Anurag Gupta (Eds.) ISBN 1-4020-4416-X