John
Rudnicki
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor of Civil and Evironmental Engineering
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road, Rm. A333
Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA
TEL:
847-491-3411
FAX: 847-491-3915
jwrudn@northwestern.edu
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ScB,
Engineering Mechanics, Brown University (1973)
ScM, Solid Mechanics, Brown University(1974)
PhD, Solid Mechanics, Brown University(1977)
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Honors and Awards
- Maurice A. Biot Medal 2006 from Engineering Mechanics Division
of the American Society of Civil Engineers for "For his fundamental
contributions to the mechanics of porous media and its applications
to rock mechanics and geophysics."
- Keynote Lecture, Models for Propagation of Compaction Bands,
Euroconference 2005 on Rock Physics, September, 2005. Ile d’Oléron,
France
- Sectional Lecturer, 22nd International Congress of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics, Adelaide, Australia, 24 – 30, August,
2008
- External Advisory Board, Southern California Earthquake Center
(SCEC)
- Invited keynote lecturer at Euroconference on Rock Physics,
September 21, 2005, Oleron, France
- Advisory Board, Southern California Earthquake Center
- Council on Geosciences, U. S. Department of Energy, Office
of Energy Sciences
- Member, Working Party 8 on Geophysics and Geomechanics, International
Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Advisory Board, International Journal for Numerical and Analytical
Methods in Geomechanics
Research: Fracture and inelastic behavior of solids, particularly
geomaterials
John Rudnicki is interested in the applications of solid mechanics
to a variety of geophysical and geomechancal problems. More specifically,
he is interested in the mechanics of earthquake faulting, the coupling
of deformation with ground water diffusion, and the development
of constitutive relations and failure models for earth materials.
Applications include energy storage and recovery, integrity of nuclear
waste disposal sites, earthquake hazard mitigation and geological
sequestration of carbon dioxide.
In the classroom
John Rudnicki teaches a variety of mechanics courses at both the
undergraduate and graduate levels. Undergraduate courses he has
taught recently include Mechanics of Materials and a new course
on the Mechanics of Sports. At the graduate level, he regularly
teaches Mechanics of Continua, I and has taught Mechanics of Continua,
II, Inelastic Constitutive Relations for Solids, Plasticity, Fracture
Mechanics and Elasticity.
Teaching
- CIV_ENG-216 Mechanics of Materials
- CIV_ENG-417-1,2 Mechanics of Continua I,II
- MECH ENG 466 Inelastic Constitutive Relations for Solids
- MECH ENG 260 Mechanics of Sports
Selected Publications
Terrestrial Sequestration of CO2: An Assessment of Research
Needs,” (with 11 others), in Advances in Geophysics, Vol.
43, pp. 97-177, 2001.
“Shear heating of a fluid-saturated slip-weakening dilatant
fault zone (with D. I. Garagash) 1. Limiting regimes”, Journal
of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108 (B2), 2121, doi:10.1029/2001JB001653,
2003; “2. Quasi-drained regime” (with D. I. Garagash),
Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 108 (B10), 2472, doi:10.1029/2002JB002218,
2003.
“Localization: Shear Bands and Compaction Bands” (with
P. Bésulle), Chapter V in Mechanics of Fluid-Saturated
Rock (Editors: Y. Guéguen and M. Boutéca), pp. 219-321,
Vol. 89, International Geophysics Series, Academic Press, London,
2004.
J. W. Rudnicki and J. R. Rice, “Effective normal stress
alteration due to pore pressure changes induced by dynamic slip
propagation on a plane between dissimilar materials”, Journal
of Geophysical Research, Vol. 111, B1308, doi:10.1029/2006JB004396,
2006.
“Energy Release Model of Compaction Band Propagation”
(with K. R. Sternlof), Geophysical Research Letters, Vol 32, L16303,
doi:10.1029/2005GL023602, 2005
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