Alan Needleman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Date of Birth: 02-Sep-1944
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: engineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Alan Needleman
- Alan Needleman (born September 2, 1944, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a professor of materials science & engineering at Texas A & M University.
- Prior to 2009, he was Florence Pirce Grant University Professor of Mechanics of Solids and Structures at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Needleman received his B.S.
- from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, an M.S.
- and Ph.D.
- from Harvard University in 1967 and 1970 respectively, advised by John W.
- Hutchinson.
- He was an instructor and assistant professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1970 to 1975.
- He was a professor of engineering at Brown University starting in 1975, and served as the dean of the Engineering Department from 1988 to 1991.
- He was the chair of the Applied Mechanics Division. Needleman's main research interests are in the computational modeling of deformation and fracture processes in structural materials, in particular metals.
- A general objective is to provide quantitative relations between the measurable (and hopefully controllable) features of the materials' micro-scale structure and its macroscopic mechanical behavior.
- Ongoing research projects involve studies of ductile fracture and ductile-brittle transitions; crack growth in heterogeneous microstructures with particular emphasis on the role of interfaces; nonlocal and discrete dislocation plasticity; fatigue crack growth; and fast fracture in brittle solids. Needleman is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, an honorary member of MECAMAT (Groupe Français de Mecanique des Matériaux) and a foreign member of the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.
- He has been recognized by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Science Citation Index as a highly cited author both in engineering and in materials science.
- In 1994, his work on 3D modeling of metallic fracture was a finalist in the Science Category for the Computerworld-Smithsonian Award.
- In 2006 he was the recipient of both the William Prager Medal and the Drucker Medal and received an Honorary Doctorate from Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
- He is also the recipient of Timoshenko Medal in 2011.
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