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

                                                             M.S., Applied Mechanics, 6/63

                                                             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.