JAMES R. RICE
Curriculum Vitae (as of 16 September 2007)
BIRTH: 3 December 1940, Frederick,
Md. USA
citizen
ADDRESS:
224
Pierce Hall, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA;
telephone
617-495-3445, fax 617-495-9837; e-mail: rice@esag.harvard.edu;
www:
http://esag.harvard.edu/rice/
EMPLOYMENT:
9/1981 - present: Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences:
positions:
Mallinckrodt
Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics (7/01-present).
Gordon
McKay Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics (9/81-6/01).
1/07
- 4/07: On sabbatical
leave, Shimizu Visiting
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford
University.
9/04: On sabbatical leave,
Rothschild
Visiting Professor, Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences, University
of Cambridge, UK.
1/99
- 12/99: On leave,
Blaise Pascal International Research Professorship, Foundation of cole
Normale Suprieure, Paris;
principal host: Dpartement
Terre Atmosphre Ocean, cole Normale Suprieure, Paris. Also, for 1/99 - 5/99, Professor of Mechanics, cole
Polytechnique, Paliseau, France.
1/95
- 12/95: On sabbatical leave,
Allan Cox Visiting Professor, Department of Geophysics, School of Earth
Sciences, Stanford University.
9/88
- 8/89: On sabbatical leave,
Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, Division of Engineering and
Applied Science, California Institute of Technology.
9/1964 - 8/1981: Brown
University, Providence, RI;
Division of Engineering:
positions:
L.
Herbert Ballou Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (7/73 - 8/81);
Professor
of Engineering (7/70 - 8/81);
Associate
Professor of Engineering (7/68 -
6/70);
Assistant
Professor of Engineering (7/65 -
6/68);
NAS-NRC
Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate (9/64 - 6/65).
9/71
- 8/72: On sabbatical leave,
NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Applied Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, and Overseas Fellow, Churchill
College, Cambridge, UK.
EDUCATION:
9/1958
- 8/1964 Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, PA
B.S.,
Engineering Mechanics, 6/62
Ph.D.,
Applied Mechanics, 10/64
SCIENTIFIC
WORK:
This
addresses problems in theoretical mechanics
-- stressing, deformation, fracture and flow -- as they arise in
seismology, tectonophysics and surficial geologic processes, particularly
topics related to the science of earthquakes, and in civil-environmental
engineering and materials physics. The earthquake studies focus on
the nucleation of rupture, thermo- and hydro-mechanical weakening of fault
zones during seismic slip, dynamic rupture propagation through branched and
offset fault systems, and relations among stressing, seismicity and deformation
in or near continental and subduction fault systems, including the physics of
aseismic deformation transients.
In studies of hydrologic processes, poroelastic effects and other pore
fluid interactions in the deformation and failure of earth materials are
addressed, with applications in seismology and environmental geomechanics.
Recent studies have been initiated on landslide processes and on glacial flow including
mechanisms of rapid episodic ice motion. Work in previous years has also
addressed the theory of crack propagation in elastic-plastic metals,
path-independent integrals in elasticity, the structure of inelastic
constitutive relations, microscopic mechanisms of cleavage and ductile or creep
rupture, the thermodynamics of interfacial embrittlement, wave effects in
tensile crack dynamics, sliding friction and its instabilities, deformation
localization into shear zones, and landslides in overconsolidated soil slopes. Contributions have also been made to
techniques of computational mechanics, including finite-element and spectral
elastodynamic methods.
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES:
societies:
American Geophysical Union, Member, 1975
- ; Fellow, 1988-.
American Society of Civil Engineers, Member,
1976 - .
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
Member, 1964 - ; Fellow, 1980 -.
American Physical Society, Materials
Physics Division, Member, 1995 -.
American Academy of Mechanics, Member,
1988 - ; Fellow, 1990 -.
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, Member; Fellow, 1981 -.
American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 1978 -.
National Academy of Engineering, Member,
1980 -.
National Academy of Sciences, Member,
1981 -.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, Honorary Fellow,
1990 -.
Royal Society of London, Foreign Member,
1996 -.
Acadmie des Sciences, Institut de
France, Associ tranger (Foreign Member), 2000 -.
Spanish Academy of Engineering,
Corresponding Member, 2001 -.
editorial
(current):
Editorial Advisor, Journal of the
Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 1978 -.
Editorial Board, Quarterly of Applied
Mathematics, 1978 -.
Editorial Advisory Board,
Acta Geotechnica, 2005 - .
Advisory Board, Acta
Geophysica, 2006 - .
committees
(current and recent):
Board of
Trustees, Lehigh University, 1988 - 1998.
Committee on Seismology, National
Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources,
1992 - 1998.
Committee on Science of Earthquakes,
National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,
1996 - 2002.
Council on Materials Sciences, Materials
Sciences Program of Basic Energy Sciences Division, Department of Energy, 1997
- 1999.
Advisory Board, School of Earth Sciences,
Stanford University, 1998 - 2000.
Visiting Committee Member, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, MIT, 2001 - 2009.
Board of Directors, NSF-USGS Southern
California Earthquake Center, 2002 - .
Scientific Advisory Board, San Andreas
Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD) of NSF Earthscope Program, 2004 - .
Scientific Advisory Committee,
Dpartement Terre Atmosphre Ocean, cole Normale Suprieure, Paris, 2005 - .
HONORS,
AWARDS:
Charles B. Dudley Medal of the American
Society for Testing and Materials for the paper "Mechanics of Crack Tip
Deformation and Extension by Fatigue" (ASTM STP-415, 1967, p. 237), 1969.
Henry Hess Award of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers for the paper "A Path Independent Integral and the
Approximate Analysis of Strain Concentration by Notches and Cracks" (ASME
J. Appl. Mech., 1968, 35,
p. 379), 1969.
Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal Award of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers "for outstanding achievement in
mechanical engineering within ten years following graduation", 1971.
U.S. National Committee for Rock
Mechanics Award for Outstanding Research in Rock Mechanics, June 1977, shared
with J.W. Rudnicki, based on the co-authored paper "Conditions for the
localization of deformation in pressure-sensitive dilatant materials" (J.
Mech. Phys. Solids, 1975, 23,
p. 371).
American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
elected Fellow, 1978.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
elected Fellow, 1980.
National Academy of Engineering, elected
Member, 1980.
International Congress on Fracture,
elected Honorary Fellow, 1981.
National Academy of Sciences, elected
Member, 1981.
American Association for the Advancement
of Science, elected Fellow, 1981.
George R. Irwin Medal of the American
Society for Testing and Materials, Committee E-24 on Fracture Testing, shared
with J.W. Hutchinson for "significant contributions to the development of
nonlinear fracture mechanics", 1982.
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Lehigh
University, 1985.
American Geophysical Union, elected
Fellow, 1988.
William Prager Medal of the Society for
Engineering Science for "outstanding achievements in solid mechanics",
1988.
American Academy of Mechanics, elected
Fellow, 1990.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, elected
Honorary Fellow, 1990.
American Academy of Mechanics Award for
Distinguished Service to the Field of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 1992.
Francis Birch Lecturer, American
Geophysical Union, on "Problems in Earthquake Source Mechanics",
1993.
Timoshenko Medal, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, "for seminal contributions to the understanding of
plasticity and fracture of engineering materials and applications in the
development of computational and experimental methods of broad significance in
mechanical engineering practice", 1994.
Royal Society of London, elected Foreign
Member, for work on "earthquakes and solid mechanics", 1996.
Francis J. Clamer Medal for Advances in
the Field of Metallurgy, Franklin Institute, for "development of the
J-integral for the accurate prediction of elastic-plastic fracture behavior in
metal from easily obtained data", 1996.
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree,
Northwestern University, 1996.
Nadai Award, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, "for major contributions to the fundamental
understanding of plastic flow and fracture processes in engineering and
geophysical materials; and for the invention of the J-Integral which forms the
basis for the practical application of nonlinear fracture mechanics to the
development of standards of safety of structures", 1996.
Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, Brown
University, September 1997.
Blaise Pascal International Research
Professorship, awarded by the Region Ile-de-France through the Foundation of
cole Normale Suprieure, Paris, for the 1999 calendar year, for research on
"Rupture dynamics in seismology and materials physics".
Honorary Doctoral Degree, University of Pierre and Marie Curie
(University of Paris VI), 1999.
Excellence in Mentoring Award, Graduate
Student Council, Harvard University, 1999.
Acadmie des Sciences, Institut de
France, elected Associ tranger (Foreign Member), 2000.
Spanish Academy of Engineering, elected
Corresponding Member, 2001.
Honorary Doctoral Degree, Israel
Institute of Technology (Technion), 2005.
Maurice A. Biot Medal, American Society
of Civil Engineers, for Fundamental contributions to
the mechanics of porous metals and geomaterials with applications to soil
mechanics, geophysics and materials science and engineering, 2007.