John W. Rudnicki (born August 12, 1951, in
Huntington, West Virginia
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) is an American
engineering professor.
Education
Rudnicki studied at
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
Mechanics from 1969 with a
bachelor's degree in 1973, a
master's degree in 1974, and a
doctorate in
solid-state mechanics with
James R. Rice
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in 1977. He was a
postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in
geophysics at
Caltech.
Career
Dr. John Rudnicki's research interest includes Inelastic behavior and failure of geomaterials, particularly deformation instabilities in brittle rocks and granular media, including their interactions with pore fluids, with applications to fault instability, quantification of energy radiation from earthquakes and environment- and resource-related geomechanics. From 1978 to 1981 he was an assistant professor at the
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, and from 1981 onwards
associate professor
Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''.
Overview
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at
Northwestern University, where he received a full professorship for
mechanics,
environmental engineering and
civil engineering in 1990.
He dealt in particular with the mechanics of
geomaterials, especially local deformations such as the influence of local heating caused by deformation caused by friction and
pore water during warping. Applications that he investigated include
carbon dioxide storage in rock, energy storage and recovery,
toxic waste storage, and
earthquakes. From 2005 to 2010 he was one of the consultants of the
Southern California Earthquake Center. From 1997 to 2010 he was a member (and chairman from 2008 to 2010) of the Geoscience Panel at the
United States Department of Energy.
In 2006, he received the
Maurice A. Biot Medal (for his fundamental contributions to the theory of porous media and application in
rock mechanics and geophysics), in 2008 the Brown Engineering Alumni Medal, in 2011 the
Daniel C. Drucker Medal and in 2013 the Caterpillar Prize for his paper "A multiscale DEM-LBM analysis on permeability evolutions inside a dilatant shear band" (co-authored with WaiChing Sun and Matthew Kuhn). In 2014, John Rudnicki received the Engineering Science Medal from the Society of Engineering Science (SES). A special symposium was organized by
K. T. Chau at Purdue University during the annual conference of SES. In 1977 he received a prize for outstanding research in rock mechanics around the national US committee for rock mechanics. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
In 2014, he published the book "Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics"
[John W. Rudnicki (2014) Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics, New York, Wiley.(; 218 pages)] by Wiley.
References
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University of Illinois faculty
Northwestern University faculty
Brown University School of Engineering alumni
1951 births
Living people
People from Huntington, West Virginia