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DONALD A. SHOCKEY |
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Associate Laboratory Director Poulter Laboratory Pure and Applied Physical Sciences Division |
| Characterizing, modeling, and predicting the deformation and fracture behavior of materials, with special emphasis on microstructural influences and dynamic effects |
| Dynamic fracture of ductile and brittle metals and alloys, polymers, ceramics, fiber composites, propellant, and geologic materials |
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| Development of computational models for fracture under stress wave loads |
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| Effects of shock damage on mechanical properties |
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| Measurements of fracture toughness at extreme loading rates |
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| Laser-induced damage in alkali halides and fiber composites |
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| Hypervelocity impact phenomena |
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| Cratering in rock |
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| Phenomenology and properties of propagating and arresting cracks |
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| Rebinder effects (environment-enhanced plasticity) |
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| Adiabatic shear band phenomena |
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| Effects of microstructural features on tensile fracture and shear failure behavior |
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| Fragmentation of oil shale, hard rock, and metals |
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| Response of cracks to short pulse loads |
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| Stress corrosion cracking |
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| Impact erosion phenomena |
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| Dynamic compaction of powder |
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| Explosive metal working |
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| Research scientist, Ernst-Mach Institut and Institut fŸr Werkstoffmechanik (Freiburg, Federal Republic of Germany) |
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| Assistant Director, Department of Shock Physics and Geophysics, SRI International |
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| Director, Metallurgy and Fracture Mechanics Department, SRI International |
B.S. in metallurgy (1963), Grove City College (Pennsylvania);
M.S. in metallurgical engineering (1965), Carnegie-Mellon University
Ph.D. in metallurgy/materials sciences (1968), Carnegie-Mellon University
SRI International Fellowship Award, 1990; Fellow of ASM International, 1993
More than 80 technical publications; one patent
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