Summary
Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death.[2] He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a dissertation entitled Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Applications. He made contributions widely in elasticity, especially in mathematical analysis, the theory of stress concentrations, thermo-elasticity, and visco-elasticity.[1]
Eli Sternberg | |
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| Born | 13 November 1917[2] Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 8 October 1988 (aged 70) Pasadena, California |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | elasticity |
| Institutions | Illinois Institute of Technology Brown University Caltech |
| Doctoral advisor | Michael Sadowsky |
| Doctoral students | Morton Gurtin[1] |
He was in 1956 a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Technology and for the academic year 1963–1964 a Guggenheim Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo. For the academic year 1970-1971 he was a visiting professor in Chile and in 1968 at the University of Glasgow.
Sternberg became in 1951 a full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1957 a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, and in 1964 a professor of mechanics at Caltech, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1988.
Honors and awards edit
- National Academy of Engineering[2]
- National Academy of Sciences[2]
- Timoshenko Medal[2]
Selected publications edit
- with M. A. Sadowsky: "Stress concentration around an ellipsoidal cavity in an infinite body under arbitrary plane stress perpendicular of the axis of revolution of cavity". Journal of Applied Mechanics. 14: 191–201. 1947.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: Sadowsky, M. A.; Sternberg, E. (1949). "Stress concentration around a triaxial ellipsoidal cavity". Journal of Applied Mechanics. 16 (2): 149–157. Bibcode:1949JAM....16..149S. doi:10.1115/1.4009928.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: "Elliptic integral representation of axially symmetric flows". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 8 (2): 113–126. 1950. doi:10.1090/qam/37425. MR 0037425.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On the method of inversion in the two-dimensional theory of elasticity". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 8 (4): 392–395. 1951. doi:10.1090/qam/39485. MR 0039485.
- with F. Rosenthal: Sternberg, E.; Rosenthal, F. (1952). "The elastic sphere under concentrated loads". Journal of Applied Mechanics. 19 (4): 413–421. Bibcode:1952JAM....19..413S. doi:10.1115/1.4010536.
- "On Saint-Venant´s principle". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 11 (4): 393–402. 1954. doi:10.1090/qam/58414. MR 0058414.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On the Completeness of the Boussinesq-Papkovich Stress Functions". Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 5 (5): 735–746. 1956. JSTOR 24900202.
- with R. A. Eubanks: "On stress functions for elastokinetics and the integration of the repeated wave equation". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 15 (2): 149–153. 1957. doi:10.1090/qam/91657. MR 0091657.
- with E. L. McDowell: "On the steady-state thermoelastic problem for the half-space". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 14 (4): 381–398. 1957. doi:10.1090/qam/87367. MR 0087367.
- with J. G. Chakravorty: "Thermal shock in an elastic body with a spherical cavity". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 17 (2): 205–218. 1959. doi:10.1090/qam/107424. MR 0107424.
- "On some recent developments in the linear theory of elasticity". Structural Mechanics. Proceedings of the First Symposium Naval Structural Mechanics. Pergamon Press. 1960.
- "On the integration of the equations of motion in classical elasticity". Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 6: 34–50. 1960. doi:10.1007/BF00276152. S2CID 122667920.
- with M. E. Gurtin: "A note on uniqueness in classical elastodynamics". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 19 (2): 169–171. 1961. doi:10.1090/qam/129226. MR 0129226.
- with Rokurō Muki: "Note on an asymptotic property of solutions to a class of Fredholm integral equations". Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 28 (2): 277–281. 1970. doi:10.1090/qam/264346. MR 0264346.
References edit
- ^ a b JK Knowles (1989) In Memorium: Eli Sternberg, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 56, 239.
- ^ a b c d e Budiansky, Bernard; Knowles, James (1992). Eli Sternberg: Obituary. National Academy of Engineering. doi:10.17226/1966. ISBN 978-0-309-04689-3. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
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External links edit
- Eli Sternberg at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- NC State Univ. Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (Eli Sternberg 1987)
- National Academy of Engineering membership listing