George Buchanan

Dr. George R. Buchanan, Professor

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Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1966
  • M.S., Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1962
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1961

Areas of Specialty

Continuum mechanics, vibration of continuous media, numerical analysis using finite element and/or finite difference methods.

Experience

  • Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tennessee Technological University 1983-present
  • Visiting Staff Member Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 1982-1983
  • Professor and Chairman Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Tennessee Technological University 1978-1982
  • Professor of Engineering Science, Tennessee Technological University 1975-1978
  • Associate Professor of Engineering, Science Tennessee Technological University 1968-1975
  • Assistant Professor of Engineering Science, Tennessee Technological University 1965-1968
  • Instructor, Civil Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 1962-1963

Publications

Books/Chapters in Books

  • "Shear and Moment Diagrams", The Engineering Handbook, Richard C. Dorf, Editor-in-Chief, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, pp. 68-74, 1996.
  • Theory and Problems of Finite Element Analysis, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, Inc.,New York, NY, 1995.
  • Mechanics of Materials, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988.

Refereed Journal Publications for the Past Few Years

  • "Free vibration of stepped cantilever Mindlin plates," (with Y. Jane Liu), Journal of Sound and Vibration, in press, 2003.
  • "Large axisymmetric deformation of elastic/plastic perforated circular cylinders," (with D. Wu, J. Peddieson, GRB and S.G. Rochelle), ASME, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, in press, 2003.
  • "Free vibration of an infinite magneto-electro-elastic cylinder." Journal of Sound and Vibration, in press, 2003.
  • "Vibration of moderately thick square orthotropic stepped thickness plates," (with P.V. Hull), Applied Acoustics, Vol.64, No.7, 753-763, 2003.
  • "Application of nonlocal continuum models to nanotechnology," (with J. Peddieson and R.P. McNitt) International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol.41, No.3-5, 305-312, 2003.
  • "An analysis of the free vibration of a hermetic capsule," Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.259, No.2, 490-496, 2003.
  • "Estimation of disk burst pressure using limit analysis collapse loads," (with D. Wu, J. Peddieson, GRB and S.G. Rochelle), ASME, Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol.124, 493-494, 2002.
  • "Effect of boundary conditions on free vibration of thick isotropic spherical shells," (with Brian S. Rich), Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol.8, No.3, pp.389-403, 2002.
  • "A note on the vibration of transversely isotropic solid spheres," (with G.R. Ramirez), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.253, No.3, pp.724-732, 2002.
  • "Effect of symmetrical boundary conditions on the vibration of thick hollow cylinders" (with Cecilia B.-Y. Yii), Applied Acoustics, Vol.63, No.5, pp.547-566, 2002.
  • "Frequencies and mode shapes for thick truncated hollow cones", (with Fiona T.-I. Wong), International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol.43, No.12, pp.2815-2832, 2001.
  • "The effect of the Poisson ratio on the vibration of hollow circular finite length cylinders," (with Cecilia B.-Y. Yii), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.248, No.1, pp.187-194, 2001.
  • "Frequencies and mode shapes for finite length cylinders", (with Chee-Leet Chua), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.246, No.5, pp.927-941, 2001.
  • Comment on ["Free vibration analysis of laminated piezoceramic hollow spheres," by W.Q. Chen, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.109, 2001, 41-49], (with Guillermo R. Ramirez), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.110, No.2,1188-1189, 2001.
  • "A simple unified age forming model", (with S.P. Narimetla, J.Peddieson, GRB and S. Foroudastan), Mechanics Research Communications, Vol.27, No.6, 631-636, 2000.
  • "Vibration of truncated conical cylinders of crystal class 6/mmm", Journal of Vibration and Control, Vol.6, No.7, pp.985-998, 2000.
  • "Vibration of circular, annular membranes with variable density", (with John Peddieson, Jr.), Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol.226, No.2, pp.379-382, 1999.
  • "A simulation procedure for panel age forming", (with S.P. Narimetla, J. Peddieson, GRB and S. Foroudastan), Trans. ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Vol.120, pp.183-190, 1998.
  • "Vibration of infinite piezoelectric cylinders with anisotropic properties using cylindrical finite elements", (with John Peddieson, Jr.), IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 38, pp. 291-296, 1991.
  • "Mathematical modelling of an age-forming process", (with John Peddieson), Mathl. Comput. Modelling, Vol. 14, pp. 1057-1060, 1990.
  • "Some simplified methods for infinite elements", (with M. Sallah), Computational Mechanics, Vol. 6, pp. 167-172, 1990.
  • "Variational principles and finite element analysis of polarization gradient theory", (with M. Sallah and K.F. Fong), Computational Mechanics, Vol. 5, pp. 447-458, 1990.
  • "Axisymmetric vibration of infinite piezoelectric cylinders using one dimensional finite elements", (with John Peddieson, Jr.), IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, Vol. 36, pp. 459-465, 1989.
  • "A variational principle and finite element analysis for thermo-polarization gradient theory", (with K.F. Fong and M. Sallah), Mechanics Research Communications, Vol. 16, pp. 359-370, 1989

 

 

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