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K. RANJITH
DEAS, Harvard University
29 Oxford St, Cambridge MA 02138
E-mail: ranjith@deas.harvard.edu

Contact info for July and August 2001:
Centre for Condensed Matter Theory
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012, India
E-mail: ranjith@deas.harvard.edu
Ph:011-91-80-309-2888 (From U.S.A.)

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PUBLICATIONS

  1. J. R. Rice, N. Lapusta and K. Ranjith, Rate and state dependent friction and the stability of sliding between elastically deformable solids. In press, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids,  2001.
  2. K. Ranjith and J. R. Rice, Slip dynamics at an interface between dissimilar materials, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 49, 341-361, 2001 (Postscript, 350 KB or PDF, 330 KB).
  3. K. Ranjith and J. R. Rice, Stability of quasi-static slip in a single degree of freedom elastic system with rate and state dependent friction, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 47, 1207-1218, 1999. (Postscript, 450 KB or PDF, 260 KB).
  4. K. Ranjith and R. Narasimhan, Asymptotic fields for dynamic crack growth at a ductile-brittle interface, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 45, 67-85, 1997.
  5. K. Ranjith and R. Narasimhan, Asymptotic and finite element analyses of mode III dynamic crack growth at a ductile-brittle interface, International Journal of Fracture, 76, 61-77, 1996.


INVITED SEMINARS

  1. Ill-posedness and regularization in dynamic frictional sliding between dissimilar elastic solids, Mardi Gras Conference on Multi-scale Simulation, Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Deformation, Friction, Fatigue and Fracture, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 23 February 2001. (Abstract Postscript or PDF)
  2. Slip dynamics at a dissimilar material interface,Workshop on Fracture, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, U.K., 9 November 1999. (Abstract Postscript or PDF)
  3. Non-linear stability analysis of steady state slip in a single degree of freedom elastic system with rate and state dependent friction, Proceedings of the Thirteenth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 21-26 June , 1998, p. TK4. (Abstract Postscript or PDF).
    Also EOS Trans. Amer. Geophys. Union, 79, No. 17, Spring Meeting Supplement, 28 April 1998, p. S224.


Last updated: 8 July 2001