The Ohio State University

Associate Professor


PhD 1979, Northwestern University

Room E338
201 W. 19th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210

614-292-2413

Email: mendelsohn.1

Research

Dr. Mendelsohn's research activities are in the areas of fracture mechanics, surface and contact mechanics, and wave propagation in cracked structures. He is particularly interested in computationally modeling material or structural systems which exhibit heterogeneity effects in the mechanics of their deformation, damage and fracture. This involves modeling mechanical interaction across opposing irregular surfaces of flaws and cracks, and across internal interfaces between constituents in damaged heterogeneous materials subjected to realistic multi-axial load histories. Dr. Mendelsohn's research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics and a member and chair of the Elasticity Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Selected Publications

1. D. A. Mendelsohn and J.-M. Doong, "Transient Dynamic Elastic Frictional Contact: A General 2D Boundary Element Formulation with Examples of SH Motion," Wave Motion, Vol. 11, 1-21, 1989.
2. C. Pecorari, D. A. Mendelsohn, and L. Adler, "Ultrasonic Wave Scattering from Rough, Imperfect Interfaces, Part I: Stochastic Interface Models" Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 14, 109-117, 1995.
3. C. Pecorari, D. A. Mendelsohn, and L. Adler, "Ultrasonic Wave Scattering from Rough, Imperfect Interfaces, Part II: Incoherent and Coherent Scattered Fields," Journal of Nondestructive Evaluation, Vol. 14, 119-128, 1995.
4. S. Muju, P. M. Anderson, and D. A. Mendelsohn, AShielding due to Aligned Microcracks in Anisotropic Media,@ Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 22, 203-217, 1996.
5. R. U. Goulet, T. S. Gross, and D. A. Mendelsohn, AEvidence of Fracture Surface Interference for Cracks Loaded in Shear Detected by Phase Shifted Speckle Interferometry,@ Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, Vol. 27A, 3853-3860, 1996.
6. D. A. Mendelsohn, T. S. Gross, R. U. Goulet and M. Zhou, AExperimental-Computational Estimation of Rough Fracture Surface Contact Stresses,@ Materials Science and Engineering A, Vol. 249, 1-6, 1998.
   S. Muju, P. M. Anderson, and D. A. Mendelsohn, AMicrocrack Toughening in Two-Phase Multilayered Media,@ Acta Materiala, Vol. 46, 5385-5397, 1998.
7. L. B. Shulkin, D. A. Mendelsohn, G. L. Kinzel, and T. Altan, AA Useful Solution for Estimating Contact Pressure Between a Plate and a Foundation,@ Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol 122, 781-789, 2000.