John W. Rudnicki

Curriculum Vitae

Date and Place of Birth: August 12, 1951, Huntington, West Virginia

Employment:

September, 1981 – present, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

August, 1978 – August 1981, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

February, 1977 – July, 1978, California Institute of Technology

Positions:

September 1991 – present, Professor of Mechanical Engineering

September 1990 – present, Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Civil and Environmental Engineering

September, 1981 – August, 1990, Associate Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Civil Engineering

August 1978 – August 1981, Assistant Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, (University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign)

February 1977 – July 1978, Research Fellow and Instructor in Geophysics (California Institute of Technology)

Education: Brown University, 1969 - 1977

Sc.B.(Engineering Mechanics), June 1973

Sc.M. (Solid Mechanics), June 1974

Ph.D. (Solid Mechanics), January 1977

Professional Activities:

Societies:

American Geophysical Union, 1975

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1975

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1987

Seismological Society of America, 1978

Sigma Xi, 1975

Editorial:

Advisory Board, Mechanics of Cohesive-Frictional Material and Structures, An International Journal on Experiments, Modeling and Computation, 1995-

(Incorporated into International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, January, 2001)

Contributing Editor in Geophysics, Mechanics, 1982 ‑ 1989

Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research, 1986‑1988

Associate Editor, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 1988‑1994

Guest Editor, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Special volume honoring John Dundurs, 1994.

Co-editor (with T.-J. Chuang) Multiscale Fracture and Deformation in Materials and Structures, The James R. Rice 60^th Anniversary Volume, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, April, 2000.

Committees and Panels:

External Advisory Board, Southern California Earthquake Center (SCAC), Member 2005

IUTAM Working Party 8, Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics, Member, 2004-

Scientific Committee, 3^nd Biot Conference on Poromechanics, June 24 - 27, 2004, Norman, Oklahoma

Poroelasticity Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003 -

Scientific Committee, 2^nd Biot Conference on Poromechanics, Aug. 26-28, 2002, Grenoble, France

Scientific Committee, International Workshop on Bifurcation and Instabilities, June 2-5, 2002, University of Minnesota

Scientific Committee, Biot Conference on Porous Mechanics, Sept. 14-16, 1998, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

N. S. F. Review Panel on San Andreas Continental Fault Zone Drilling Project, May 28-29, 1999.

U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Energy Sciences, Geosciences Council, 1997- present

NAS/NRC U. S. National Committee on Rock Mechanics, 1995-1999

NAS/NRC Advisory Panel for AFOSR Research Proposals in Mechanics (Vice Chairman), 1996

ASME/AMD Committee on Geomechanics, 1982 ‑present (Chairman, 1985‑88)

U.S. Geological Survey Peer Review Panel for National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program 1986‑1989

N.S.F. Panel for Review of Science and Technology Center Proposals in Earth Sciences, 1988

U.S. National Committee on Rock Mechanics, Subpanel on Awards, 1988‑1991

Seismological Society of America, Nominating Committee for Board of Directors, 1990

Department of Energy External Review Panel for J. S. Szymanski Report, "Conceptual Considerations of the Yucca Mountain Groundwater System with Special Emphasis on the Adequacy of this System to Accommodate a High-Level Waste Repository" 1990-91

International Committee, Seventh Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 1991

Awards:

Award for Outstanding Research in Rock Mechanics (June 1977) from the U.S. National Committee on Rock Mechanics, for the paper "Conditions for the localization of deformation in pressure‑sensitive dilatant materials" (with J.R. Rice), J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 23, 371‑394, 1975.

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."

Short Appointments:

Geophysicist, Office of Earthquake Studies, U. S. Geological Survey, June, 1979.

Southwest Mechanics Lecturer, March, 1996

Visiting Professor, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, April, 2001

Lecturer, Deformation in the Earth’s Continental Crust: Theory, Experiment and Modeling, Advanced Course, International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, CISM, June 17 - 21, 2002, Udine, Italy.

Invited Lecture, Gordon Conference on Rock Deformation, Deformation Mechanism and Mode of Failure Transitions in Rocks, May 19-24, 2002, Il Ciocco, Italy.

Invited participant, Program on Granular and Particle Laden Flows, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England, September, 2003.

Participant, Program on Granular Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, Ca April 5 – 15, 2005.

Consulting:

Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, March 17‑18, 1981

Amoco Oil Company, September 25‑28, 1983

Sandia National Laboratory, 1982‑1992

Science Applications International Corporation, 1990-91

Amoco Netherlands, Sept. - December, 1994; 1996

Snap-On Tools, Kenosha, WI, April, 1996

Advantek International, February, 2002

Courses Taught:

Graduate: Theoretical Geophysics (Caltech), Wave Motion in Continuous Media (Univ. of Illinois), Fracture Mechanics, Theory of Elasticity, Continuum Mechanics, Plasticity, Dynamics of Structures, Mechanics of Earthquakes, Inelastic Behavior of Solids.

Undergraduate: Mechanics of Materials, Mechanics (Statics and Dynamics), Continuum Mechanics, Engineering Analysis - 2, Mechanics of Sports.

August, 2006