Thomas Pence
Thomas Pence
Professor
Research Biography
Research Focus: Mechanical behavior and mathematical modeling of materials under large deformation. Application Areas: elastomers and rubber elasticity, crystallographic phase transformation, shape memory effects, corrosion, material and structural instability, buckling, composite materials, thin films, biological tisssue mechanics, nonlinear wave propagation.
Research Interests
- composite
Selected Publications
- T. J. Pence and H. Tsai, "Bulk cavitation and the possibility of localized interface deformation due to surface layer swelling," Journal of Elasticity 87 (2007) 161-185 (DOI 10.1007/s10659-007-9102-8).
- H. Demirkoparan and T.J. Pence, "Swelling of an internally pressurized nonlinearly elastic tube with fiber reinforcing," International J. Solids and Structures 44 (2007) 4009-4029 (doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.11.006).
- H. Demirkoparan and T.J. Pence, "The effect of fiber recruitment on the swelling of a pressurized anisotropic nonlinearly elastic tube," International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics 42 (2007) 258-270.
Selected Achievements and Awards
- Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, MSU College of Engineering - 1991