Eli Sternberg Explained
Eli Sternberg should not be confused with Elli Stenberg.
Eli Sternberg (13 November 1917 – 8 October 1988) was a researcher in solid mechanics and was considered to be the "nation's leading elastician" at the time of his death.[1] He earned his doctorate in 1945 under Michael Sadowsky at the Illinois Institute of Technology with a dissertation entitled Non-Linear Theory of Elasticity and Applications. He made contributions widely in elasticity, especially in mathematical analysis, the theory of stress concentrations, thermo-elasticity, and visco-elasticity.[2]
He was in 1956 a Fulbright Fellow at the Delft Institute of Technology and for the academic year 1963–1964 a Guggenheim Fellow at the Keiō University in Tokyo. For the academic year 1970-1971 he was a visiting professor in Chile and in 1968 at the University of Glasgow.
Sternberg became in 1951 a full professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 1957 a professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, and in 1964 a professor of mechanics at Caltech, where he retired as professor emeritus in 1988.
Honors and awards
Selected publications
- with M. A. Sadowsky: Stress concentration around an ellipsoidal cavity in an infinite body under arbitrary plane stress perpendicular of the axis of revolution of cavity. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 14. 1947. 191–201.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: Stress concentration around a triaxial ellipsoidal cavity. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 16. 1949. 149–157. 10.1115/1.4009928. 1949JAM....16..149S. Sadowsky. M. A.. Sternberg. E.. 2.
- with M. A. Sadowsky: Elliptic integral representation of axially symmetric flows. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 8. 2. 1950. 113–126. 37425. 10.1090/qam/37425. . . . . free.
- with R. A. Eubanks: On the method of inversion in the two-dimensional theory of elasticity. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 8. 4. 1951. 392–395. 39485. 10.1090/qam/39485. . . . . free.
- with F. Rosenthal: The elastic sphere under concentrated loads. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 19. 1952. 413–421. 10.1115/1.4010536. 1952JAM....19..413S. Sternberg. E.. Rosenthal. F.. 4.
- On Saint-Venant´s principle. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 11. 4. 1954. 393–402. 58414. 10.1090/qam/58414. . . free.
- with R. A. Eubanks: On the Completeness of the Boussinesq-Papkovich Stress Functions. Journal of Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 5. 5. 1956. 735–746. 24900202. . . . .
- with R. A. Eubanks: On stress functions for elastokinetics and the integration of the repeated wave equation. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 15. 2. 1957. 149–153. 91657. 10.1090/qam/91657. . . . . free.
- with E. L. McDowell: On the steady-state thermoelastic problem for the half-space. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 14. 4. 1957. 381–398. 87367. 10.1090/qam/87367. . . . . free.
- with J. G. Chakravorty: Thermal shock in an elastic body with a spherical cavity. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 17. 2. 1959. 205–218. 107424. 10.1090/qam/107424. . . . . free.
- Book: On some recent developments in the linear theory of elasticity. Structural Mechanics . Proceedings of the First Symposium Naval Structural Mechanics . Pergamon Press. 1960.
- On the integration of the equations of motion in classical elasticity. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 6. 1960. 34–50. 10.1007/BF00276152. 122667920.
- with M. E. Gurtin: A note on uniqueness in classical elastodynamics. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 19. 2. 1961. 169–171. 129226. 10.1090/qam/129226. . . . . free.
- with Rokurō Muki: Note on an asymptotic property of solutions to a class of Fredholm integral equations. Quarterly of Applied Mathematics. 28. 2. 1970. 277–281. 264346. 10.1090/qam/264346. . . . . free.
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Notes and References
- Book: Budiansky. Bernard Budiansky. Bernard. Knowles. James. Eli Sternberg: Obituary. Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 5 (1992). National Academy of Engineering. 4 February 2016. 10.17226/1966. 1992. 978-0-309-04689-3.
- JK Knowles (1989) In Memorium: Eli Sternberg, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 56, 239.
