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Professor James Norman Goodier (1905 – 1969)

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Biography from Wikipedia:
James Norman Goodier (October 17, 1905 – November 5, 1969) was professor of applied mechanics at Stanford University known for his work in elasticity and plastic deformation.
He was born in Preston, Lancashire, England and studied engineering at Cambridge University. He was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship which enabled him to continue his studies at the University of Michigan where he earned his doctorate in 1931 under the direction of Stephen Timoshenko with a dissertation titled Compression of Rectangular Blocks, and the Bending of Beams by Nonlinear Distributions of Bending Forces. Timoshenko moved to Stanford University in 1936 and Goodier eventually succeeded him there.
He was co-author of two classic books in this field: "Theory of Elasticity," with Timoshenko, 1951; and "Elasticity and Plasticity," with P. G. Hodge, Jr., 1958 and was awarded the Timoshenko Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1961. He was chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1945-46, and was elected Fellow of that Society in 1964. He had more than fifty doctoral students, one of whom was George F. Carrier.

Selected Publications:
J. N. Goodier, Concentration of stress around spherical and cylindrical inclusions and flaws, Trans. ASME, 55 (1933) 39–44.

Timoshenko, S., Goodier, J. N. Theory of Elasticity, 2nd Edition, New York: Mc Graw Hill, 1951

Goodier, J. N., Hoff, N. J. eds. (1960) Structural Mechanics, Proceedings of the First Symposium on Naval Structural Mechanics. Pergamon Press, Great Britain

Goodier, J. N. and I. K. McIvor. “The elastic cylindrical shells under nearly uniform radial impulse”, J. Appl. Mech., Vol. 31, No. 2, June 1964

Abrahamson GR, Goodier JN. “Dynamic flexural buckling of rods within an axial plastic compression wave”. J Appl Mech 1966; 33:241–7.

J.N. Goodier. Dynamic plastic buckling, In: Proceedings of the Int Conf on Dynamic Stability of Structures, Ed. G. Herrmann, Pergamon, New York, 189–211, 1967.

Goodier JN. “Dynamic buckling of rectangular plates and sustained plastic compressive flow”. In: Engineering plasticity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1968. p. 183–200 Proceedings of an international conference of plasticity, Cambridge, England, March 1968.

Florence AL, Goodier JN. Dynamic plastic buckling of cylindrical shells in sustained axial compressive flow. J Appl Mech 1968;35(1):80–6.

For an “In Memoriam essay” see the link, “Prof. James Norman Goodier (1905-1969)

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