John L. Bassani

Phone: 215.898.5632
Email: bassani@seas.upenn.edu
Office: 231 Towne Building

EDUCATION:

1978 Ph.D. in Engineering, Harvard University
1975 M.S. in Applied Mechanics, Lehigh University
1973 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1980- Professor (1991), Chair (1997- 2005) of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics; Professor (1991) of Materials Science and Engineering (secondary appointment), University of Pennsylvania
1996-97 Visiting Scholar, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University; Visiting Professor, Division of Engineering, Brown University
1988 Visiting Professor of Materials, University of California at Santa Barbara
1979-80 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1978-79 Lecturer and Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1973 Structural Engineer, Fairchild-Republic Aviation, Farmingdale, New York

HONORS AND AWARDS:

Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984-1989)
Richard H. and S. L. Gabel Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1993-present)

EDITORIAL BOARDS:

CURRENT RESEARCH:

Relationship between properties of discrete and continuous media; Interfacial mechanics; Plastic deformation of crystals - nonlocal continuum theory; Mechanics of fracture and fatigue; Material stability and localized deformation; Mechanics of living cells.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Qu, J. and Bassani, J. L. (1989), “Cracks on Bimaterial and Bicrystal Interfaces,” J. Mech.Phys. Solids 37, 417-454.

Bassani, J. L. and Hawk, D. E. ( 1990), “Influence of Damage on Crack-Tip Fields Under Small-Scale-Creep Conditions,” Int. J. Fracture 42, 157-172.

Qin, Q. and Bassani, J. L. (1992), “Non-Schmid Yield Behavior in Single Crystals," and "Non-Associated Plastic Flow in Single Crystals,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids 40, 813-833; 835-862.

Alber, I, Bassani, J. L., Khantha, M., Vitek, V. and Wang, G. J. (1992), “Grain Boundaries as Heterogeneous Systems: Atomic and Continuum Elastic Properties,” Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. A 339, 555-586.

Bassani, J. L. (1994), “Plastic Flow of Crystals,” Advances in Applied Mechanics 30, 191-258.

Alber, E. S., Bassani, J. L., Vitek, V. and Wang, G. J. (1996), “Elastic Interfacial Waves in Discrete and Continuous Media,” Physical Review B 53, pp. 8398-8410.

Muthiah, R. C., Pfaendtner, J. A., McMahon Jr., C. J., Xu, Y., and Bassani, J. L., “A Study of Dynamic Embrittlement in Bicrystals of Cu-7%Sn,” Materials Science and Engineering A234-236, 1033-1036, 1997.

Marinopoulos, A. G., Vitek, V., and Bassani (1998), J. L., “Local and Effective Elastic Properties of Grain Boundaries in Silicon,” Phys. Status Solidi (a) 166, 453-473.

Xu, Y. and Bassani, J. L. (1999), “A Steady-State Model for Diffusion Controlled Fracture,” Matls. Sci. & Eng., A260.

Acharya, A. and Bassani, J. L., “Incompatibility and Crystal Plasticity,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 48, 1565-1595, 2000.

Bassani,J. L., Needleman,A. and Van der Giessen, E., “Plastic flow in a composite: a comparison of nonlocal continuum and discrete dislocation predictions,” Int. J. Solids Structures, 38, 833-853, 2001.

Bassani, J. L. “Incompatibility and a Simple Gradient Theory of Plasticity,” J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 49, 1983-1996, 2001.

Bassani, J. L., Ito, K. and Vitek, V., “Complex Macroscopic Plastic Flow Resulting from non-Planar Dislocation Core Structures,” Materials Science and Engineering, A319, 97-101, 2001.

Acharya, A., Bassani, J. L. and Beaudoin, A., Geometrically-necessary dislocations, hardening, and a simple gradient theory of crystal plasticity,” to appear in Scripta Materialia, 2002.

Mishin, Y., Sofronis, P and Bassani, J. L., “Thermodynamic and kinetic aspects of interfacial decohesion,” submitted to Acta Materialia, 2002.

Braginsky, M., Bassani, J. L. and Vitek, V. “Elastic Properties of Heterogeneous Atomic Structures,” submitted to Philosophical Magazine, 2002.