Frank A. McClintock

Frank Ambrose McClintock ( born January 2, 1921 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, † February 20, 2011 in Needham, Massachusetts ) was an American engineer scientist.

McClintock studied ( with bachelor's and master's degree ) and received his doctorate in 1950 at Caltech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1949 he became Assistant Professor, 1955 Associate Professor and in 1959 Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Mechanical Engineering ) at MIT. In 1990, he retired.

He is considered a pioneer in the merging of Applied Mechanics and Materials Science, for example, in the study of fatigue failure with prior plastic deformation.

In 2004 he received the Daniel C. printer Medal, 1978 Nadai Medal, the Howe Medal, the Griffith Medal of the European Structural Integrity Society, and in 1956 the James Clayton Prize of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK. He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Writings

• Ali S. Argon: Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Addison -Wesley 1966