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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

(Book) Continuum Mechanics: Elasticity, Plasticity, Viscoelasticity. CRC Press, 2007.
     Errata.doc

(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.

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.

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.
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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)