Erland M. Schulson

George Austin Colligan Distinguished Professor of Engineering


Awards

Biographical Sketch

Committees, Consulting, and Other Service

Education

Graduate Students

Lectures (Invited)

Membership in Professional Societies

Patents

Principal Investigator

Professional Positions

Publications

Teaching Experience

Ice Research Lab

Thayer School of Engineering

Dartmouth College


GRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Post-doctoral   - 9    Doctoral   - 8   Masters - 34

Masters Students:

Gordon R. Haff   1981   Recrystallization, Grain Growth, and Fracture in a Work-Hardened, Polycrystalline, Beta-Phase Nickel Aluminum Alloy.

John Currier   1981   The Tensile Strength of Fresh-Water, Granular Ice:
Grain Size Effect.

James S. Geller   1981   An Experimental Study of the Label Printing Process
at Markem.

Daniel Viens  1983   Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Ni3Al.

Douglas Barker   1983  The Strength and Ductility of Polycrystalline NiAl.

Pooi N. Lim   1983   The Effects of Temperature and Grain Size on the
Tensile Strength of Ice.

Robert B. Graham   1984   The Effect of Temperature, Composition, and Grain
Size on the Mechanical Properties of NiAl.

Neil P. Cannon   1985   The Influence of Grain Size on Compressive
Strength of Polycrystalline Ice.

David Cole   1985  Microstructuring on Ice Under Compression.

James L. Laughlin   1985   The Effect of a Bimodal Grain Size Distribution
on the Compressive Strength of Polycrystalline Ice.

Russell W. Lee  1985   The Effect of Grain Size on the Tensile Strength
of Ice at Two Strain-Rates.

Timothy P. Weiss   1985   The effects of Grain Size and Boron on the
Mechanical Properties of Ni3Al.

Rebecca N. Haerle   1986   The Effect of Stress State History on the
Compressive Strength of Polycrystalline Ice.

Steven G. Hoxie   1986   The Effect of Pre-Existing Cracks on the
Tensile Strength of Polycrystalline Ice.

Benlih Huang   1986   The Effect of Boron on Yield Strength, Recrystallization
and Grain Growth in Ni3Al.

Victoria Zinoviev   1986   Contributions to the Physical Metallurgy of Ni3Al Doped with Boron.

Lawrence J. Briggs  1988   The Effects of Grain Size and Boron on the
Mechanical Properties of Ni3Si at Room Temperature.

Gregory J.   1988   The Effects of End Constraint on the Strength
Lasondeand Fracture Mode of Polycrystalline Ice in
Compression.

Mark C. Gies   1988   The Development of Brush-Type Platens for Loading Ice Specimens in Compression.

Douglas Jones   1989   Ice Friction: Effects of Temperature, Sliding Velocity
and Ice Type.

Yixin Xu   1989   Effect of Grain Size and Boron on the Mechanical Properties
of Off-Stoichiometric Ni3Al.

Susan R. Shoemaker   1990   Freshwater Columnar Ice: Growth Structure
and Mechanical Properties.

Douglas A. Fifolt   1990  An Investigation into the Electromagnetic Emissions
from Cracks In Ice: Development of a Signal Detection System and Preliminary Testing.

Johan A. Grape   1991  The Effect of Confining Stress on the Brittle
Compressive Indentation Fracture of Ice.

Rachel A. Batto  1992   An Investigation of the Ductile-Brittle Transition in
Columnar S2 Ice Under Compression.

Zhaohui Li  1992  The Mechanical Effects of Ductile Ni(Si)+Ni3Si Phases in
Brittle Matrix.

Gary A. Kuehn   1993  The Mechanical Properties of Saline Ice.

Oleg Y. Nickolayev   1994  Failure Envelopes and the Ductile to Brittle
Transition in Columnar Saline Ice Under Biaxial Compression.

Stephanie E. Buck   1994   Failure Envelopes and the Ductile to Brittle
Transition in Fresh-Water S2 Columnar Ice Under Biaxial Compressive Loading.

Michael E. Manley   1996   Deformation of S1 and S2 Ice.

Suogen Qi   1997   Ductile-to-Brittle Transition in Ice: Effect of Temperature.

Erik Russell   2002  Frictional Sliding Across Coulombic Shear Faults.

Bradley K. Smith   2005   Compressive Failure of Ice via Grain Boundary Sliding.

Katy Taylor   2005   Faulting Under High Confinement.


Doctoral Students:

Timothy R. Smith   1991   The Effect of Stress State on the Brittle
Compressive L12 Fracture of Columnar Ice.
(now at Failure Analysis Associates)

Jianxin Fang   1992  The Mechanical Behavior and Microstructure of the Polycrystalline Intermetallic Compound Ni3Ge.
(now at Cabot Corporation)

Yixin Xu  1994  The Mechanical Behavior of Ni3Ga with and without Boron
and the Notch Sensitivity of Ni3Al.
(now at Boston Scientific Research)

Eric Gratz   1997   The Brittle Compressive Failure Surface ofIce.
(now at Abiomed, Inc.)

Jeffrey Melton   1999  The Deformation of Columnar Saline Ice Under Triaxial Compression.
(now at Univ. New Hampshire)

Daniel Iliescu   2001   The Flow and Fracture of Cracked Ice.
(now at Seldon Laboratories, LLC)

Andrew Fortt   2006   Coulombic Sliding in Ice.
(now at Dartmouth College)

Narayana Golding   2007-present   Plastic Faulting in Ice.


Post-Doctoral Fellows:

Ian Baker (1982-1985)   The Structure of Ni3Al.
(Professor of Engineering, Thayer School of Engineering)

Wilfrid Nixon   (1984-1987)   The Fracture Toughness of Ice.
(Associate Professor, University of Iowa)

Loic Naze   (1988-1990)   The Structure of Ni3Si.
(Research Scientist, Saclay, France)

Junjie Zhang   (1990-1991) Size Effects on the Mechanical Behavior of Ice.
(Research Associate, Case-Western University)

Jerome Weiss   (1993)  Brittle Fracture of Ice.
(Research Scientist, CNRS, Grenoble)

Yixin Xu   (1996)   Deformation of Ni3Al
(Research Engineer, Boston Scientific Research)

Eric Gratz   (1997-1998)   Deformation of Ice
(Research Engineer, Abiomed)

Maurine Montagnet   (2001-2002)   Frictional Sliding in Ice
(Research Scientist, CNRS, Grenoble)

Daniel Iliescu   (2001-2004)   Fracture of Ice
(Research Scientist, Seldon Laboratories, LLC)




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