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Richard D James
Russell J. Penrose Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor
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Richard James' area of research is phase transformations in materials - especially shape memory and magnetostrictive materials - at large and small scales. This involves the development of mathematical methods for the analysis of the microstructure of materials, particularly the development of weak convergence methods for understanding the relation between the behavior of materials on different scales. These theoretical methods have application to the discovery of new materials, and his recent research concerns the development of new materials that combine two of the three properties: ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, shape-memory. A further application of this theory is the understanding of the origins of hysteresis in such materials, and the discovery of new materials with exceptionally low hysteresis. Another branch of his research concerns the properties of transforming materials and structures at very small scales, together with applications to the development of exceedingly small airplanes and submarines. Part of this research involves the study of a remarkable phase transformation that occurs in the tail sheath of bacteriophage T4, a virus that attacks bacteria. This transformation plays an important role in infection of the host, but is also a prototype for a nanoscale actuator, made of proteins, that can interact with biological systems at the scale of biomolecular processes.
Degrees
Sc.B., Engineering, Brown University, 1974.Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1979.
Experience
2002-Present: Russell J. Penrose Professor Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota- 1998-Present: Distinguished McKnight University Professor
- Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 1991-Present: Professor Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
- 1985-1991: Associate Professor Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota 1981-1985: Assistant Professor Division of Engineering, Brown University
- 1979-1980: Research Fellow in Mechanics and Thermodynamics University of Minnesota
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Five Recent Publications
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- Traian Dumritica and Richard D. James, 2007, Objective molecular dynamics, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 55 (2007) 2206–2236, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- L. Liu, R.D. James, and P. H. Leo, 2006, Magnetostrictive composites in the dilute limit, J. Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 54, pp. 951–974., (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- Wayne Falk and R.D. James, 2006, An elasticity theory for self-assembled protein lattices with application to the martensitic transformation in bacteriophage T4 tail sheath, Phys. Rev. E73, 11917, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- J. Cui, Y. S. Chu, O. Famodu, Y. Furuya, J. Hattrick-Simpers, R.D. James, A. Ludwig, S. Thienhaus, M. Wuttig, Z. Zhang and I. Takeuchi, 2006, Combinatorial search of thermoelastic shape memory alloys with extremely small hysteresis width, Nature Materials, online publication, (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
- Gero Friesecke, Richard D. James, Stefan Muller, 2006, A hierarchy of plate models derived from nonlinear elasticity by È-convergence, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal., 180, pp. 183–236., (Journal Article) More Details, Request PDF
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Honors and Fellowships
2002: Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Chair, Cornell University College of Engineering
1999: Rothschild Visiting Professor Background, Cambridge University Best Paper award, ASME/SPIE Smart Materials,
1998: Distinguished McKnight University Professor Background
1997: Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
1991: George Taylor Distinguished Research Award Background
Editorial Positions
Current Courses
Subjects and Courses Taught
- Undergraduate
- AEM 4602W -- Aeromechanics Laboratory
- Graduate
- AEM 5503 -- Theory of Elasticity
- AEM 8500 -- Research Seminar in Mechanics of Materials
- AEM 8541 -- Mechanics of Crystalline Solids
- AEM 8551 -- Multiscale Methods for Bridging Length and Time Scales
- AEM 8595 -- Selected Topics in Mechanics and Materials
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