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Desai, Chandrakant S. was born on November 24, 1936 in Nadisar, Gujarat, India. Son of Sankalchand P. and Kamala M. (Kothari) Desai. came to the United States, 1964, naturalized, 1973.
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The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and fracturing, stiffening or healing, all within a single, hierarchical framework. Its capabilities go well beyond other available material models yet lead to significant simplifications for practical applications. Until now, however, there has been no resource that fully describes the theory, techniques, and potential of this powerful method. Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: Disturbed State Concept presents a detailed theoretical treatment of the DSC and shows that it can provide a unified and simplified approach for mathematical characterization of the mechanical response of materials and interfaces. Within this comprehensive treatment, the author: • Compares the DSC with other available models • Identifies the physical meaning of the relevant parameters and presents procedures to determine them from laboratory test data • Validates the DSC models with respect to laboratory tests used to find the parameters and independent tests not used in the calibration • Implements the models in computer procedures • Validates those procedures by comparing predictions with observations from simulated and field boundary value problems • Solves problems from a variety of disciplines, including civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering If you are involved in the mechanics of materials, you owe it to yourself to explore the disturbed state concept. Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces provides the first-and to date, the only-comprehensive means of doing so.
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This text therefore is designed to prepare undergraduates and practicing engineers with bachelors degrees both to solve their specific problems and to read further in the current finite element literature. It is assumed that the reader has some background in the diverse mathematical fields associated with the finite element method; matrix algebra mechanics variation methods and computer skills. The book is divided into three parts; introduction and background material a description of the method and applications. A relatively simple computer code is included in appendix i. At the end of each chapter bibliographic information is provided in two sections references and further reading. A brief descriptive commentary is included with most ef the references cited. Abbreviations used in the references are summarized in appendix ii. Part a is incorported both to guide the reader to useful texts on the background material and to summarize without detailed derivations the methods and equations that are employed in parts band c.
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Desai, Chandrakant S. was born on November 24, 1936 in Nadisar, Gujarat, India. Son of Sankalchand P. and Kamala M. (Kothari) Desai. came to the United States, 1964, naturalized, 1973.
Bachelor of Engineering, University Bombay, 1959. Master of Science (Ideal Cement Company fellow 1964), Rice University, Houston, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy (American Petroleum Institute fellow 1966), University Texas, Austin, 1968.
Civil engineer government private agencies, India, 1959-1964; research civil engineer, USAE Wayerways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1968-1974; professor сivil engineering, director computational methods group, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 1974-1981; professor, director engineering mechanics, geomech. and structural mechanics program department сivil engineering and engineering mechanics, U. Arizona, Tucson, 1981-1987; Regent's professor, U. Arizona, Tucson, since 1989; head Department, University Arizona, Tucson, 1987-1991. Erskine professor of University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1980, 91.
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Trustee Deep Founds. Institute, 1978-1980. Chairman/vice chairman 1st, 2d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th International Conference Numerical Methods Geomechanics. Fellow American Society of Civil Engineers (chairman computer and numerical methods committee GT division 1976-1981).
Member American Society for Testing and Materials, Institute Structural Engineers (Wallace Premium prize 1963), International Society Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Earthquake Research Institute, American Academy Mechanics, American Society Engineering Education, International Association Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (president since 1991, OutstandingContbns. medal 1991).
Married Patricia L. Porter, April 28, 1969. Children: Maya C., Sanjay C.