| Cornelius O. Horgan | | Wills Johnson Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics | | Ph.D., California Institute of Technology | , National University of Ireland| | | Dr. Horgan joined the SEAS faculty at the University of Virginia in 1988. His research interests are in applied mechanics (mechanics of solids and materials) and applied mathematics, in which fields he has authored or co-authored nine invited book chapters, over 135 publications in refereed archival journals, and numerous Conference Proceedings papers. Dr. Horgan is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Academy of Mechanics, the Society for Natural Philosophy, the American Mathematical Society, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Society of Engineering Science and the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM). He has been an active member of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME, and was founding chairman of the Elasticity Committee of that division from 1981-86. He also serves on the editorial boards of the International J. of Nonlinear Mechanics, J. of Elasticity, SIAM J. on Applied Mathematics, is one of the managing and founding editors of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids and was an associate editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics from 1988-92 and an associate editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews from 1985-2000. In 1985 he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and was elected Fellow of ASME in 1992. He served on the Board of Directors, Society of Engineering Science, from 1993-99. In May 2000, he received an Outstanding Teacher Award from the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Virginia. He was elected to the executive committee of ISIMM in January 2002. He has served as a visiting professor at Northwestern University, Cornell University, California Institute of Technology, at Universita di Pisa, Ferrara and Lecce, Italy and at Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. | | | | Research Interests | | Cornelius Horgan's research may best be characterized as mathematical modeling of basic physical phenomena in engineering and applied science, particularly in solid mechanics. He and his colleagues have recently made fundamental advances in the modeling of limiting chain extensibility at the molecular level and its implications for constitutive laws for hardening materials. The results are useful for the design of experiments to measure the mechanical properties of rubber, polymers and biological materials. He has made significant contributions to the analysis of Saint-Venant end effects in solids, with recent application to functionally graded materials and smart materials. | | |
Sponsored Research
Load Diffusion in Linear and Nonlinear Solids (funded by: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research)
Load Diffusion in Composite and Smart Structures (funded by: NASA)
Boundary-Value Problems for New Classes of Nonlinearly Elastic Materials (funded by: National Science Foundation)
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