John Rudnicki

Professor

A333 Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3109

E-mail address: jwrudn@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491-3411
Fax: (847) 491-4011
Website: Prof. Rudnicki's Homepage

Curriculum Vitae:

Education

• Sc.B., Brown University, Engineering Mechanics
• Sc.M., Brown University, Solid Mechanics
• Ph.D., Brown University, Solid Mechanics

Research

Inelastic behavior and failure of solids, especially geomaterials; coupling of deformation with pore fluid diffusion. Applications to deformation of the Earth's crust, mechanics of earthquakes, hydrocarbon recovery and sequestration of carbon dioxide. More specifically, he is interested in the mechanics of earthquake faulting, the coupling of deformation and diffusion in the earth's crust, and constitutive models for rocks, especially in relation to the analyses for the development of localized deformation.

Teaching Activities

• CIV_ENG-216 Mechanics of Materials
• CIV_ENG-417-1 Mechanics of Continua I
• CIV_ENG-417-2 Mechanics of Continua II
• MECH ENG 466 Inelastic Constitutive Relations for Solids
• MECH ENG 260 Mechanics of Sports

Professional Activities

• Chair, Geosciences Council, U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Sciences.
• Advisory Board, Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Material and Structures, An International Journal on Experiments, Modeling and Computation
• External Advisory Board, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC)

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."
• Bown Engineering Alumni Medal, 2008
• Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008

Selected Publications

• "Terrestrial Sequestration of CO2: An Assessment of Research Needs" (with 11 others), in Advances in Geophysics, Vol. 43, pp.97-177, 2000.
• “Shear Heating of a Fluid-saturated Slip-weakening Dilatant Fault Zone 1. Limiting Regimes” (with D. I. Garagash), Journal of Geophysical Research , Vol. 108 (B2), 2121, doi:10.1029/2001JB001653, 2003; 2. Quasi-drained Regime”, 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.
• “Models for compaction band propagation,” Chapter 8 in Rock Physics and Geomechanics in the Study of Reservoirs and Repositories (eds. C. David and M. Le Ravelec-Dupin), Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 284, pp. 107-125, doi: 10.1144/SP284.8, 2007.
• “Effective normal stress alteration due to pore pressure changes induced by dynamic slip propagation on a plane between dissimilar materials” (with J. R. Rice), Journal of Geophysical Research , Vol. 111, B1308, doi:10.1029/2006JB0043962006, 2006.

  *** For a complete list of publications, see my Homepage. Many can be downloaded as pdf files