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EMAIL:
j.c.newman.jr@ae.msstate.edu

Jim Newman received his Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1974 and worked for the NASA Langley Research Center for 37 years. He joined the Aerospace Engineering faculty in the fall of 2001.

• Statics
• Dynamics
• Mechanics of Materials
• Elasticity
• Plasticity
• Aircraft Structures
  

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate

• Mechanics of Materials (EM 3213)
• Aircraft Structures II (ASE 3223)
  

Areas of Research:

• Fatigue and fracture
• Materials
• Aircraft structures

Funding Agencies:

• Federal Aviation Administration
• Office of Naval Research
• NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
• Alcoa
• S & K Technologies, Inc.

Books/Book Chapter:

• Newman, J. C., Jr., "Numerical Modeling of Fatigue Crack Growth" Chapter in Comprehensive Structural Integrity, Vol. 4, R. O. Ritchie and Y. Murakami, eds., Elsevier, June 2003.

Select Journal Publications:

• Wang, C. H., Rose, L.R.F. and Newman, J. C., Jr., "Closure of Plane-Strain Cracks under Large-Scale Yielding Conditions," Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol. 25, No. 2, February 2002, pp.127-139.
• Forth, S. C., Newman, J. C., Jr. and Forman, R. G., "On Generating Fatigue Crack Growth Thresholds", International Journal of Fatigue, Vol. 25, May 2002, pp. 9-15.
• Newman, J. C., Jr., James, M. A. and Zerbst, U., "A Review of the CTOA/CTOD Fracture Criterion," Engineering Fracture Mechanics Journal, Vol. 70, No. 3-4, pp., February 2003, pp. 371-386.

Conference Presentations/Proceedings:

• Newman, J. C., Jr. and Phillips, E. P., "Prediction of Crack Growth under Variable-Amplitude and Spectrum Loading in a Titanium Alloy," ASTM/SF2M Symposium in Tours, France, May 2002.
• Newman, J. C., Jr., "Advances in Finite-Element Modeling of Fatigue-Crack Growth and Fracture," Invited Overview Lecture at the Fatigue 2002 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2002.
• Newman, J. C., Jr., Schneider, J. A., Forth, S. C. and Forman, R. G., "On Generating Crack-Growth Rates in the Near-Threshold Regime," International Conference on Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials IV, Hyannis, MA, September 2002.
  

Honors and Awards:

• Chi Epsilon
• Tau Beta Pi
• NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 1981
• NASA Medal for Exceptional Engineering Achievement, 1990
• NASA Superstars in Aeronautics Award, 1998
• American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM), George R. Irwin Medal, 1981
• ASTM Fellow, 1986
• Boeing, Silver Eagle Award, 2001
• U.S. Air Force, John W. Lincoln Medal, 2001
• NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellow, 2002

Professional Memberships:

• American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM)
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE)