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He began his professional career teaching at the University of Washington in 1958 in the area of experimental stress analysis with an emphasis on brittle coatings and photoelasticity.
One of the first of the modern stress analysts at the University, he quickly introduced a number of applied mechanics courses to complement the experimental study of stress and failure. Shortly afterwards, through collaboration with his colleagues at the University and at the Boeing Company, he began his studies in fracture mechanics, leading to investigations which have subsequently dominated his professional life. 1964 saw the first of his many publications in static brittle fracture; 1967 dynamic brittle and plastic fracture; and 1968, the application of analytical and numerical techniques to understand both static and dynamic crack-tip behaviour. This work has continued without respite, or reduction in intensity, to his present studies of fracture in long pressurized pipes.
In 1969 he spent a sabbatical with Professor Kanazawa at the University of Tokyo studying the failure of large steel plates. The outgrowth of this brief visit was the highly productive and internationally recognized series of U.S.-Japanese seminars on welded structures, cryogenic vessels, and fracture tolerance evaluation.
The study of brittle and ductile fracture was extended in 1966 to the analysis of thermal stresses and in 1979 to fracture in reinforced concrete and polymers. Although he continued to be heavily engaged in these fracture studies, his interests in experimental and analytical applied mechanics led to the study of biological materials, in particular the eye. In 1971 he
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