John D. Eshelby

John Douglas Eshelby, called Jock, ( born December 21, 1916 in Puddington, Cheshire, † December 10, 1981 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire ) was a British engineer scientist for mechanics. He is known for his contributions to micromechanics.

He went to school in Eastbourne and was after an illness privately educated at home ( in Farrington Gurney ). He then studied physics at the University of Bristol with the conclusion of 1937. During World War II he worked for the Navy on the demagnetization of ships and then in the Royal Air Force in the development of radar (most recently he was Squadron Leader ). After the war, he received his doctorate in physics at Bristol University with a thesis on dislocations. He then went to the University of Cambridge to the Cavendish Laboratory, and became a Fellow of Churchill College and then Reader in Materials Science at the University of Sheffield, where he became professor in 1971.

He dealt with elasticity theory and mechanics of defects. According to him, the Eshelby theory of strain energy is named.

In 1977 he received the Timoshenko Medal. In 1974 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In his spare time he collected books and dealt with Sanskrit.

Writings

  • The Force on to Elastic Singularity, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Volume 244, 1951, pp. 87
  • The Determination of the Elastic Field of an Ellipsoidal Inclusion, and Related Problems, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 241. 1957, pp. 376-396
  • The Elastic Field Outside of Ellipsoidal Inclusion, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 252, 1959, pp. 561-569
  • Xanthippi Markenscoff, Anurag Gupta (Editor): Collected Works of JD Eshelby, Mechanics of Defects and inhomogeneities, Springer Verlag 2006
  • The continuum theory of lattice defects, in: Frederick Seitz, D. Turnbull (Eds. ): Progress in Solid State Physics, Vol 3, Academic Press, New York, 1956, pp. 79-303
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