CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:   James Casey
Birthday:   15 September 1949
Education:  

Engineering, National University of Ireland, 1971
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 1980

Career:   Assistant Professor (1980-1985) and
Associate Professor (1985-1989), University of Houston, Texas
Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, 1990
Professor of Theoretical Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
    University of California, Berkeley, 1994 to present
Professor, Department of Bioengineering, 1998 to present
Chancellor's Professor, UC Berkeley, 1998-2001
Graduate Students Supervised:

H. Jahedmotlagh, M.Sc., 1982
H. H. Lin, M.Sc., 1983
T. D. Sullivan, M.Sc., 1984
M. Ingram, M.Sc., 1984
M. Tseng, Ph.D., 1988
V. Lam, Ph.D., 1989
S. Krishnaswamy, Ph.D., 1994
E. Baesu, Ph.D., 1998
D. Nath. Ph.D., 1998
E. C. Bass, Ph.D., 1999
A. A. Brown, Ph.D., 2000
D. R. Wagner, Ph.D., 2002

Research Areas: Continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, continuum thermodynamics, plasticity, viscoplasticity, dynamics, Volterra dislocations, pseudo-rigid continua, history of mechanics
     
Selected Publications:
     
1986

"On Finitely Deforming Rigid-Plastic Materials," Int. J. Plasticity, 2, 247-277.

"A Tensor Method for the Kinematical Analysis of Systems of Rigid Bodies," (with V.C. Lam), Mech. Mach. Theory, 21, 87-97.
     
1987 "Connections between Kinematics of Line, Area, and Volume Elements," J. Elasticity, 17, 71-74.
     
1988 "On the Relationship between the Eulerian and Lagrangian Descriptions of Finite Rigid Plasticity,"Arch. Ratl. Mech. Anal., 102, 351-375.
     
1991 "On the Lagrangian Description of Vorticity," (with P.M. Naghdi) Arch. Ratl. Mech. Anal., 115, 1-14.
     
1992

"On Infinitesimal Deformation Measures," J. Elasticity, 28, 257-269.

"On the Principle of Rigidification," Arch. Hist. Exact Sciences, 43, 329-383.

"Clairaut's Hydrostatics: A Study in Contrast," Am. J. Phys. 60, 549-554.

"A Prescription for the Identification of Finite Plastic Strain," Int. J. Engng. Sci. 30, 1257-1278.

     
1994 "Geometrical Derivation of Lagrange's Equations for a System of Particles," Am. J. Phys. 62, 836-847.
     
1995

"A Treatment of Internally Constrained Materials," J. Appl. Mech., 62, 542-544.

"On the Advantages of a Geometrical Viewpoint in the Derivation of Lagrange's Equations for a Rigid Continuum," ZAMP, 46 (Special Issue), S805-S847.

Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids, Special Issue of Journal of Applied Mechanics and Physics (ZAMP), 46 (1995) S1 - S847 (with M.J. Crochet; editors).

   
1996 Exploring Curvature, Vieweg Verlag (1996).
   
1998

"On Elastic-Thermo-Plastic Materials at Finite Deformations," International Journal of Plasticity, 13 (1998) 173-191.

"On Characterization of Internally Constrained Thermoelastic Materials," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 3, 71-89 (with S. Krishnaswamy).
   
2000 "A Treatment of Internally Constrained Elastic-Plastic Materials," International Journal of Engineering Science, 38, 1677-1698 (with E. Baesu).
   
2002 "Material Transport of Sets and Fields," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 7, 647-676 (with P. Papadopoulos).
   
2003 "Experiments Conducted in the Context of the Strain-Space Formulation of Plasticity," International Journal of Plasticity, 19, 1965-2005 (with A. A. Brown and D. J. Nikkel).
   
2004

"On Volterra Dislocations of Finitely Deforming Continua," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids.

"Pseudo-Rigid Continua: Basic Theory and a Geometrical Derivation of Lagrange's Equations," Proceedings of the Royal Society A 460, 2021-2049.
   

2005

"Geometrical Derivation of Lagrange's Equations for a System of Rigid Bodies," Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids (with O. M. O'Reilly).
   
   

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