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Professor Alan Taylor Zehnder

Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Selected Publications:
Hui CY and Zehnder A (1993), A theory for the fracture of thin plates subjected to bending and twisting moments, International Journal of Fracture 61, 211–229.

Zehnder A and Hui CY (1994), Stress intensity factors for plate bending and shearing problems, Journal of Applied Mechanics 61, 719–722.

Viz MJ, Zehnder AT, and Bamford JD (1995), Fatigue fracture of thin plates under tensile and transverse shearing stresses, in Reuter W (ed.) Fracture Mechanics, 26th Volume, vol. ASTM STP 1256, American Society for Testing and Materials, 631–651.

Viz M, Potyondy D, Zehnder A, Rankin C, and Riks E (1995), Computation of membrane and bending stress intensity factors for thin, cracked plates, International Journal of Fracture 72, 21–38.

Hui CY, Zehnder AT, and Potdar YK (1998), Williams meets von-Kármán: Mode coupling and non-linearity in the fracture of thin plates, International Journal of Fracture 93, 409– 429.

Zucchini A, Hui CY, and Zehnder AT (2000), Crack tip stress fields for thin plates in bending, shear and twisting: A comparison of plate theory and three dimensional elasticity theory, International Journal of Fracture 104, 387–407

Zehnder AT, Viz MJ, and Potdar YK (2000), Fatigue fracture in plates under tension and out-of-plane shear, Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures 23, 403– 415

Ural, A., Zehnder, A.T. and Ingraffea, A.R. (2001). Fracture mechanics approach to facesheet delamination in honeycomb: Measurement of energy release rate of the adhesive bond. Engineering Fracture Mechanics. (submitted).

Tong-Seok Han, Ani Ural, Chuin-Shan Chen, Alan T. Zehnder, Anthony R. Ingraffea and Sarah L. Billington, “Delamination buckling and propagation analysis of honeycomb panels using a cohesive element approach”, International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 115, No. 2, 2002, pp. 101-123

Alan T. Zehnder and Mark J. Viz, “Fracture Mechanics of Thin Plates and Shells Under Combined Membrane, Bending, and Twisting Loads”, Appl. Mech. Rev., Vol. 58, No. 1, 2005

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