David M. Barnett

Professor (jointly with the Department of Materials Science & Engineering)
Faculty of Mechanics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.A. Rice University - Mechanical Engineering (1961)

M.S. Rice University - Mechanical Engineering (1963)

Ph.D. Stanford University - Materials Science (1967)

Research Interests

Dislocations in Elastic Solids; Bulk, Surface and Interfacial Waves in Anisotropic Elastic Media; Mechanics of Piezoelectric and Piezomagnetic Materials.

He is the author of over 100 technical articles concerned with dislocations and waves in anisotropic elastic media and, with four co-authors, is currently involved in producing a new text on wave propagation in crystalline solids. Professor Barnett also serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Applied Mechanics.

Recent Publications

Chien, N. Y., Gao, H., Herrmann, G. and Barnett, D. M., "Diffusive Surface Instabilities Induced by Electromechanical Loading", Proceedings of the Royal Society, London, A, 452, pp. 527-541 (1996).

Gao, H. and Barnett, D. M., "An Invariance Property of Local Energy Release Rate in a Strip Saturation Model of Piezoelectric Fracture", International Journal of Fracture, 79, R25-29 (1996).

Barnett, D. M. and Kirchner, H. O. K., "A Proof of the Equivalence of the Stroh and Lekhnitskii Sextic Equations for Plane Anisotropic Elastostatics", Philosophical Magazine, 76, #1, pp. 231-239 (1997).

Chou, Y. T. and Barnett, D. M., "Reciprocal Relationship Between the Stress Field of a Line Force and a Dislocation in Anisotropic Media", Philosophical Magazine, 76, #1, pp. 221-229 (1997).

Ting, T. C. T. and Barnett, D. M., "Classification of Surface Waves in Anisotropic Materials", Wave Motion , 26, pp. 207-218 (1997).

Chou, Y. T. and Barnett, D. M., "On a Reciprocal Relationship Between the Deformation Fields of a Line Force and a Straight Dislocation", Philosophical Magazine Letters, 76, #3, pp. 139-141 (1997).

Barnett, D. M., "Lectures on Anisotropic Elasticity", a book chapter in Mechanics and Materials: Fundamentals and Linkages, eds. M. A. Meyers, R. W. Armstrong, and H. O. K. Kirchner, J. Wiley and Sons, N. Y. (in press).

Barnett, D. M., "The Net Interaction Force Between Two Skew Dislocations in an Elastically Anisotropic Half-Space", Scripta Met., The John Hirth Symposium Volume (Spring TMS-AIME Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 15-19, 1998.)

Projects

U.S. Dept. of Energy "Energy Changes in Transforming Solids"

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