סמינר מחלקתי Prof. Sonia Mogilevskaya

School of Mechanical Engineering Seminar
Monday, December 14, 2015 at 15:00
Wolfson Building of Mechanical Engineering, Room 206

Lost in Translation: Crack Problems in Different Languages

Sonia Mogilevskaya

Department of Civil Engineering

University of Minnesota

The feeling of “lost in translation” is familiar to everyone who stumbles on a relevant literature source written by someone with a different academic background. It may take a significant effort to “translate” the source and interpret its contents into a familiar “language.” This may happen in various research areas and analysis of crack problems is one of such examples.   The methods of analytical or computational crack modeling vary with the academic background of the researcher and with specific applications. In addition, as typically happens in scientific research, the developments in the relevant areas take place simultaneously in different countries, and the results are literally described and published in different languages. Some of those publications are not even translated.

The talk examines major techniques for modeling elastostatic crack problems. The foundations of these techniques and fundamental papers that introduced, developed, and applied them are reviewed. The goal is to provide “translation” between different academic languages that describe the same problem.

Bio. Prof. Mogilevskaya received her PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the Scotchinsky Research Institute of Mining (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow) in 1987. She is currently a Research Professor and the Member of Graduate Faculty in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering at the University of Minnesota. She has published over 70 archival journal papers and coauthored a chapter in a book on complex hypersingular BEM in plane elasticity problems. She teaches a graduate course on the Boundary Element Methods.