Bernard Budiansky

Sc.M., Ph.D., Brown University

B.C.E. City College of New York

Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics, Emeritus

Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Emeritus

Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Solid and Structural Mechanics

Professor Budiansky is a theoretician in the fields of solid and structural mechanics. He has published researh papers on a variety of subjects, including buckling and post-buckling behavior, elasticity, plasticity, fracture mechanics, biomechanics, and aeroelasticity. For the last fifteen years his work has been primarily concerned with the mechanical behaviour of composite materials, especially compressive kinking of fiber-composites, and the tensile strength and toughness of ceramic-matrix composites reinforced by ductile particles, transforming particles, and fibers. He is now involved in the study of porous metals.

Budiansky, B. (1995) On the theoretical toughness and strength of ceramic 
composites: Fracture of Brittle, Disordered Materials, edited by G. Baker and 
B.L. Karihaloo, E & FN Spon, London

Budiansky, B. and Cui, Y.L. (1995). Toughening of ceramics by short aligned
fibers.  Mech. Matls. 21, 139-146.

Budiansky, B., Evans, A.G., and Hutchinson, J.W. (1995)  Fiber-matrix debonding
effects on cracking in aligned fiber ceramic composites.  Int. J. Solid
Structures 32, 315-328.

Fleck, N.A., Deng, L and Budiansky, B. (1995), Prediction of kink width in 
fiber composites, J Appl. Mech., 62, 329-337.

Budiansky, B. and Cui, Y.L. (1994)  On the tensile strength of a fiber-
reinforced ceramic composite containing a crack-like flaw.  J. Mech. Phys.
Solids 42, 1-19.

Xia, Z.C., Hutchinson, J.W., Evans, A.G. and Budiansky, B. (1994) On large
scale sliding in fiber-reinforced composites, J. Mech. Phys. Solids 42, (6).

Budiansky, B. and Fleck, N.A. (1994)  Compressive kinking of fiber composites:
A topical review, Applied Mechanics Reviews, 47(6), part 2.

For questions or comments please write to: Bernard Budiansky