John Hutchinson
Solid Mechanics

Problems in solid mechanics concerned with engineering materials and structures including buckling and structural stability, elasticity, plasticity, fracture and micromechanics. Examples of ongoing research activities are (i) efforts to extend plasticity theory to small scales; (ii) development of a mechanics framework for assessing thermal barrier coatings and (iii) probing the mechanical properties of the nucleus using theory and AFM to assess contributions of the nuclear membrane, lamins and nucleoplasm.

Publications:
Manandhar, P., Huang, L., Grubich, J.R., Hutchinson, J.W., Chase, P.B. and Hong, S. 2005. Highly selective directed assembly of functional actomyosin on Au surfaces. Langmuir 21: 3213-3216.

Moon, M.W., Lee, K.R., Oh, K.H. and Hutchinson, J.W. 2004. Buckle delmination on patterned substrates. Acta Materialia 52: 3151-3159.
Chen, X. and Hutchinson, J.W. 2004. A family of herringbone patterns in thin films. Scripta materialia 50: 797-801.

Gordon, V.D., Chen, X., Hutchinson, J.W., Bausch, A.R., Marquez, M. and Weitz, D.A. 2004. Self-assembled polymer membrane capsules inflated by osmotic pressure. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126: 14117-14122.

Niordson, C.F. and Hutchinson, J.W. 2003. On lower order strain grain gradient plasticity theories. Eur. J. Mech. A/Solids 22: 771-778.

Xia, Z.C. and Hutchinson, J.W. 2000. Crack patterns in thin films. J. Mech. Phys. Solids 48: 1107-1131.