Professor recognized for Plasticity Contributions

January 19, 2009

Peidong Wu, associate professor of mechanical engineering, was presented with the International Journal of Plasticity Award at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Plasticity and its Current Applications held in early January.

Prof. Wu received the award “For excellent contributions of the field of plasticity over a five-year period (2002 – 2007), especially to the areas of constitutive modeling and metal-forming.”

Prof. Wu’s research interests include: constitutive modelling of large strain behaviour of rubbers and polymers; constitutive modelling of deformation and failure of metals; numerical simulation of surface instabilities and material instabilities; multiscale modelling of size effect in manufacture processes. 

The International Journal of Plasticity reports original research on all aspects of plastic deformation, damage and fracture behaviour of isotropic as well as anisotropic solids, including the thermodynamics of plasticity and fracture, continuum theory, and macroscopic as well as microscopic phenomena. Its Impact Factor was 4.516 in 2007 (the highest among all solid mechanics journals).