James N. Goodier

James Norman Goodier ( born October 17, 1905 in Preston ( Lancashire ); † November 5, 1969 in Nottingham ) was a British- American engineer scientist for mechanics.

Goodier studied with a scholarship Engineering at the University of Cambridge, where he won several awards (including the Rex Moir Prize for best engineering student) and 1927 with top marks earned his bachelor's degree. Subsequently, he continued his studies with CE Inglis in Cambridge and went with a Commonwealth Scholarship in 1929 to Stephen Timoshenko at the University of Michigan. In 1931, he received both a D. Phil in Cambridge as a Sc. D. from the University of Michigan. 1931-1938 he was a Research Fellow in Applied Mechanics at the Ontario Research Foundation, Toronto. In 1938 he became Professor of Applied Mechanics at Cornell University, where he was also Head of the Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering. In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen and in 1947 he became professor of applied mechanics and mechanical engineering at Stanford University, presided (as successor of Timoshenko ), where he remained for the rest of his career, from 1954 to 1965 the Department of Engineering Mechanics.

For his teaching, he has received numerous awards, including the George Westinghouse Award for Engineering Education. He was primarily a theoretician, but had wide practical experience as a consulting engineer. He dealt with the theory of elasticity and elastic stability problems, elastic-plastic dynamic buckling problems, thermal stress wave propagation in solids, fracture mechanics.

In 1967 he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan. 1945/46, he was Director of the Department of Applied Mechanics of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME ) and a Fellow of the ASME 1964, he was. 1955/56, he received a Fulbright Award for his research at the University of Cambridge.

In 1931 he married the daughter of Stephen Timoshenko, Marina Timoshenko, with whom he had a son. He had broad interests (music, art, literature, philosophy and theology ), and played the piano.

Writings

  • By Stephen Timoshenko Theory of Elasticity, McGraw Hill 1951, 3rd edition 1969
  • P. G. Hodge Elasticity and Plasticity. The mathematical theory of plasticity, Wiley 1958
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