James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly

James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly James Rice to Receive the ASME Medal at the 2015 Honors Assembly James R. Rice ASME Fellow James R. Rice, Ph.D., is one of eight building trend-setters who will be perceived by ASME this year at the Honors Assembly, which will be held Nov. 16 during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Houston, Texas. Dr. Rice, the Mallinckrodt Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at Harvard University, will get the Society's most noteworthy honor, the ASME Medal, during the function. The decoration, built up in 1920, is granted for famously recognized building accomplishment. Rice is being perceived for his huge commitments to the field of applied mechanics, including the J-vital technique in flexible plastic crack mechanics, which has been comprehensively applied in mechanical building and related orders. His spearheading idea have majorly affected designing practice and have prompted new bearings of exploration. A pioneer in the applied mechanics field for over 50 years, Rice has been an individual from the Harvard staff since 1981. From 1965 to 1981, he was an employee of the Division of Engineering at Brown University. Starting as an associate educator at Brown, he was elevated to teacher in 1970 and was named L. Herbert Ballou Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1973. During his residency at the two colleges, Rice has instructed seminars on a scope of subjects including strong mechanics, liquid mechanics, crack mechanics, computational mechanics, hydrology and ecological geomechanics, soil mechanics, quake source forms, mechanics in earth and natural science, differential conditions and complex variable hypothesis. Lately, Rice's work has centered around issues in the hypothetical mechanics of solids and liquids - issues of focusing on, distortion, crack and stream - as they show up in seismology, tectonophysics and surficial geologic procedures, and in common and ecological building hydrology and geomechanics. These exploration regions have included shortcoming zone shear forms, quake nucleation, torrent engendering, meltwater collaborations with icy mass and ice sheet elements, avalanche procedures, and general hydrologic wonders including liquid connections in misshapening, stream and disappointment of earth materials. His previous examination concentrated basically on plastic distortion and breaking forms, primarily in metals, as they happened in mechanical and materials designing, and on related computational and expository approach. The ASME Foundation is the pleased supporter of the ASME Honors and Awards program through the administration of grant enrichment finances set up by people, organizations or gatherings. For more data on the uncommon occasions booked to occur at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2015.