Charles R. Steele

Professor of Mechanics and Computation
Faculty of Mechanics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.S. Texas A.and M. University - Mechanical Engineering (1956)

Ph.D. Stanford University - Engineering Mechanics (1960)

Research Interests

Asymptotic analysis and computation, biomechanics, mechanics of hearing, noninvasive mechanical measurement of bone and soft tissue, plant morphogenesis. He is the author of over 80 archival papers and three handbook chapters in these areas. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Solids and Structures. He is a Fellow of the ASME, and is a former Chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division Executive Committee. He the ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews Advisory Committee and Publications Committee. He is a Fellow and past President of the American Academy of Mechanics. He was a recipient in 1988 from the NIH of the Claude Pepper Award, and in 1994 from Germany of the Humboldt Senior Fellowship Award. Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1995.

 

Recent Publications

Fu, Yee-Chung and Charles R. Steele (1995). "Fourier series solution for the Dugdale crack in a cylindrical shell", J. Appl. Mech., 62(2) 533-535.

Steele, Charles R. and Khaliq ur-Rehman Shad (1995). "Asymptotic-numeric solution for shells of revolution", Applied Mechanics Reviews, 48(11, part 2).

 

 

Tolomeo, Jason A., Charles R. Steele, and Matthew C. Holley (1996). "Mechanical properties of the lateral cortex of mammalian auditory outer hair cells", Biophysical Journal, 71, 421-429.

 

 

 

Green, P.B., C.R. Steele, and S.C. Rennich (1996). "Phyllotactic Patterns: A Biophysical mechanism for their origin", Annals of Botany 77

 

 

Zetes, Deboroh E., and Charles R. Steele (1996). "Fluid-structure interaction of the stereocilia bundle in relation to mechanotransduction", J.Acoust.Soc.Am. 101(6).

 

Furness, David N., Doborah E. Zetes, Carole M. Hackney, and Charles R. Steele (1997). "Kinematic analysis of shear displacement as a means for operating mechanotransduction channels in the contact region between adjacent stereocilia of mammalian cochlear hair cells", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264, 45-51.

 

 

Tolomeo, Jason A., and Charles R. Steele (1998). "A dynamic model of the outer hair cell motility including intracellular and extracellular fluid viscosity", J.Acoust.Soc.Am. 103(1) 524:534.

 

Projects

"Bone Biomechanics"

"Cellular Biomechanics"

"Inner Ear Mechanics"

"Intracranial Pressure Measurement"

"Neanderthal Jaw Biomechanics"

"Orthopedic Biomechanics/ Injury Mechanics"

"Large Element Computation with Fourier Series Method"

 

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