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James Robert Rice

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LOCATION: Cambridge, MA, United States

BIOGRAPHY

Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics, Harvard University. Coauthor of Solid Mechanics Research Trends and Opportunities, 1985; author of numerous papers on solid mechanics and fracture theory in engineering, materials physics, and seismology.

Primary Contributions (1)

Figure 1: The position vector x and the velocity vector v of a material point, the body force fdV acting on an element dV of volume, and the surface force TdS acting on an element dS of surface in a Cartesian coordinate system 1, 2, 3 (see text).

mechanics of solids

Mechanics of solids, science concerned with the stressing, deformation, and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then, is a solid? Any material, fluid or solid, can support normal forces. These are forces directed perpendicular, or normal, to a material plane across which they act. The…