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Ellis Harold Dill
University Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
College of Engineering
Rutgers University
98 Brett Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone: (732)445-4905
Fax: (732)445-5313
E-mail: dill@rci.rutgers.edu
Professional Interests
- Mechanics of Solids
- Continuum Mechanics
- Finite Element Methods
- Aerospace Structures
Recent Publications
Representation of vector-valued hemitropic functions of a symmetric tensor and a vector. (December, 2009)
PDF file
Buckling of Rods in Bending and Torsion (August, 2009)
PDF file
Material Symmetries (September, 2008) [replaces section 2.2 of my book on Continuum Mechanics]
PDF file
(Book) The Finite Element Method for the Mechanics of Solids.
Rutgers University, 2009. (copies available on request)
(Book) Continuum Mechanics: Elasticity, Plasticity, Viscoelasticity. CRC
Press, 2007.
Errata.pdf
(Book) Introduction to Continuum Mechanics. Erudition Books, 2001.
Kirchhoff's Theory of Small Strains but Large Rotations.
Rutgers University, Center for Computational Modeling of Aircraft Structures,
Report 96-1, 1996. PDF FILE
On the Dynamics of Flexure and Stretch in the Theory of Elastic Rods.
(with B. D. Coleman and D. Swigon).
Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 129(1995):147-174.
The Shear Center and Kirchhoff's Theory of Rods.
Rutgers University, Center for Computational Modeling of Aircraft Structures,
Report 93-1. PDF FILE
On the Dynamics of Rods in the Theory of Kirchhoff and Clebsch
(with B. D. Coleman, Marzio Lembo, Zheng Lu, and Irwin Tobias).
Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 121(1993)339-359.
Kirchhoff's Theory of Rods.
Arch. History Exact Sci. 44(1992)1-23.
Reprint MS Word document
Flexure waves in elastic rods (with B. D. Coleman).
J. Accoust. Soc. Am. 91(1992)2663-2673.
A Triangular Finite Element for Thick and Thin Plates.
Computers and Structures. 35(1990)301-308.
Hobbies
- Genealogy
(Dill, Ellis, Bell, Cole, Peeler, Roller, Luck)
For genealogy, see http://home.att.net/~ehdill/. - Bridge (The card game)