Ronald J. Hartranft
Email: rjh2@lehigh.edu
Personal website
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Appointed to Lehigh Faculty: 1966
Education:
Ph.D. Applied Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1966
M.S. Applied Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1964
B.S. Engineering Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1963
Related experience - teaching, industrial, etc.:
NSF Cooperative Graduate Fellow, Lehigh University, 1963-66
Assistant Professor of Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1966-72
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Lehigh University, 1972-77
Chair of the MEM Solid Mechanics Division, Lehigh University, 1991-97
Research activities, consulting, patents, etc.:
Has conducted research, sponsored by NASA, ONR, AFOSR, and others, on fracture mechanics, plate theories, finite element applications, diffusion of heat and moisture, mechanics of interfaces, mechanics of electronic packaging, thermal stresses in boiler tubes; is an occasional engineering consultant on stress analysis and fracture mechanics
Scientific and professional societies of which a member:
ASME
SAE
Sigma Xi