John W. Hutchinson

John Woodsides Hutchinson
Born 10 April 1939
Residence Cambridge, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Fields Solid mechanics
Institutions Harvard University
Alma mater Lehigh University
Harvard University
Doctoral advisor Bernard Budiansky
Doctoral students Alan Needleman, Shih Choon Fong, Yonggang Huang
Known for Solid mechanics
Notable awards William Prager Medal (1991)
Timoshenko Medal (2002)

John W. Hutchinson (born April 10, 1939) is a renowned scholar in the field of applied mechanics, and has made seminal contributions to the mechanics of structures and mechanics of materials. He is a recipient of the Timoshenko Medal. He earned his doctoral degree from Harvard University in 1963, advised by Bernard Budiansky. He has been the author of very important and famous works about solid and fracture mechanics, among the others the so-called HRR (Hutchinson-Rice-Rosengren) theory of elastic-plastic stress fields in power hardening materials, posing a miliar stone for the modern Non-Linear (or Elasto-Plastic) Fracture Mechanics (NLFM, EPFM, Hutchinson, 1968, and Rice and Rosengren, 1968). The starting point is the monotonic stress-strain constitutive law of many ductile solids undergoing uniaxial tension, i.e. the well known Ramberg-Osgood law.

Hutchinson was awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 2012.[1] In 2013 he was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society. [2]

References

  1. ↑ "John W. Hutchinson is awarded the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring". iMechania. October 27, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-28.
  2. ↑ "New Fellows 2013". Royal Society. Retrieved 30 July 2013.

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