John D. Eshelby
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John Douglas Eshelby FRS (21 December 1916 – 10 December 1981) was a scientist in micromechanics. He made significant contributions to the fields of defect mechanics and micromechanics of inhomogeneous solids for fifty years, including important aspects of the controlling mechanisms of plastic deformation and fracture.
Early life and education
Eshelby was born at
Research and career
In World War II Eshelby began working for the Admiralty on the degaussing of ships, but on 4 May 1940 he joined the Technical Branch of the Royal Air Force. His work from February 1941 to June 1942 was for the Coastal Command Development Unit conducting performance trials of Air-to-Surface Vessel radar and other operational devices in all types of aircraft. He was then involved in radar work, from August 1942 to February 1943 with 76 signals wing and from February 1943 to September 1944 at the radar establishment at Malvern. He was then transferred to disarmament work and then to the Air Historical branch in September 1945. He left the RAF as a squadron leader on 4 October 1946.[1]
After the war Eshelby returned to Bristol University to study for a PhD and taught himself the theory of elasticity for his thesis on "Stationary and moving dislocations". He obtained his PhD in 1950 under
In 1964 he moved to the
Personal life and Death
Eshelby was clear and amusing as a lecturer, and prepared his lectures with great care, but was not keen on doing experimental work. He was well versed in Sanskrit (among other classical languages) and was an avid second-hand book buyer.[1]
Eshelby died on 10 December 1981.[1]
Awards and honours
Eshelby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1974. He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal in 1977.[2][1]
In 2012, the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty and the Eshelby Memorial Bursary was founded in his memory. was launched to commemorate the memory of Eshelby. The award is given annually to rapidly emerging junior faculty who exemplify the creative use and development of mechanics, and awardees are formally recognised at the annual Applied Mechanics Division Banquet at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers' International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (ASME-IMECE) meeting.[3]
Legacy
Eshelby work helped shape the fields of defect mechanics and micromechanics of inhomogeneous solids for fifty years, including the controlling mechanisms of plastic deformation and fracture.The scientific phenomenon called Eshelby's inclusion is named after this scientist, and points at an ellipsoidal subdomain in an infinite homogeneous body, subjected to a uniform transformation strain.[4][5]
Selected publications
- A Tentative Theory of Metallic Whisker Growth University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Received 4 June 1953 The American Physical Society
- Eshelby, J. D. (1951). "The Force on an Elastic Singularity". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 244 (877): 87–112. S2CID 14703976.
- Eshelby, J. D. (1957). "The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion, and Related Problems" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 241 (1226): 376–396. S2CID 122550488.
- Eshelby, J. D. (1959). "The Elastic Field Outside an Ellipsoidal Inclusion". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 252 (1271): 561–569. S2CID 119853168.
- Collected Works of J. D. Eshelby, Mechanics of Defects and Inhomogeneities, Springer (2006), ISBN 1-4020-4416-X
- J. D. Eshelby, "The continuum theory of lattice defects," in: F. Seitz and D. Turnbull (eds.), Progress in Solid State Physics, Vol. 3, Academic Press, New York (1956), pp. 79–303.
Further reading
Bilby, B. A. (1990). John Douglas Eshelby. 21 December 1916-10 December 1981. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 36: 127–150. ISSN 0080-4606.
References
- ^ S2CID 72172409.
- ^ a b c "Search Results for John Eschelby". catalogues.royalsociety.org. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
- ^ "Deadline Oct 15th, 2023: Call for Nominations for the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty | iMechanica". imechanica.org. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
- S2CID 122550488.
- S2CID 119853168.