Thomas J. Pence

Professor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

• B.S. Michigan State University, 1979
• M.S. California Institute of Technology, 1980
• Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 1983

• Office: Room 2452 Engineering Building
• Phone: (517) 353-3889
• Email: pence@egr.msu.edu

Areas of Interest

Continuum mechanics, nonlinear elasticity, wave propagation in solids, mechanics of composite materials, corrosion,  buckling and postbuckling, modeling of phase transitions, shape memory materials, mechanics of thin films, swelling of soft matter.

Professional Service

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Elasticity
Editorial Board Member, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics

Sample Publications

1. On the mechanical dissipation of solutions to the Riemann problem for impact involving a two-phase elastic material, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 117 (1992) pp. 1-52.
2. The dissipation topography associated with solutions to a Riemann problem involving elastic materials undergoing phase transitions, Shock Induced Transitions and Phase Structures in General Media (E. Dunn, R. Fosdick & M. Slemrod, eds.), IMA 52, Springer-Verlag (1993), pp. 169-183.
3. A thermomechanical model for a one-variant shape memory material, (with Y. Ivshin) J. Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, 5 (1994), pp. 455-473.
4. Phase-fraction evolution during incomplete cyclic transformation in NiTi: correlation of analytical modeling with measurement of magnetic susceptibility, (with R. Loloee and D.S. Grummon), J. de Physique IV, C8 (1995), pp 545-550.
5. Dyanmics of Crystal Surfaces and Interfaces, (P. M. Duxbury and T. J. Pence, editors) Plenum Press, 1997.
6. Pulse attenuation by kinetically active phase boundary scattering during displacive phase transformation. (With J. Lin) Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 46 (1998), pp. 1183-1211.
7. Kink surfaces in a directionally reinforced neo-Hookean material under plane deformation: II. kink band stability and maximally dissipative band broadening, (with J. Merodio) J. Elasticity 62 (2001), pp. 145-170.
8. Models for one variant shape memory materials based on dissipation functions (with D. Bernardini) International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics 37 (2002), pp. 1299-1317.
9. Interaction of harmonic plane waves with a mobile elastic phase boundary in anti-plane shear, (with H. Tsai) International Journal of Engineering Science 40 (2002), pp. 647-671.
10. Shape-memory materials, modeling, (with D. Bernardini) The Encyclopedia of Smart Materials, volume 2, M. Schwartz ed., John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York (2002), pp. 964-980.
11. Exact solutions for axially varying three-dimensional twist motion in a neo-Hookean solid (with L. Novozhilova and S. Urazhdin, ) Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Math 56 (2003), pp. 123-138.
12. On corrosion-induced creep and the shedding of oxide pest from metal plates (with D. L. Marshall, M. E. Taylor, Y. Ivshin and G. Diderrich) ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics 70 (2003), pp. 625-632.
13. Swelling induced microchannel formation in nonlinear elasticity (with H. Tsai) IMA Journal of Applied Math  70 (2005), pp. 173-189.
14. Soft elastic bending response of a nematic elastomer described by a microstructurally relaxed free energy, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 18 (2006), pp. 281-304.
15. Swelling of an internally pressurized nonlinearly elastic tube with fiber reinforcing, (with H. Demirkoparan) International J. Solids and Structures, 44 (2007),  pp. 4009-4029.

Sample Presentation

Multifield theory for materials, Isaac Newton Institute Monday Seminar, Cambridge University.

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