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Ronald Samuel Rivlin
Pages 234-239

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... From 1942 to 1944, Rivlin worked at Telecommunications Research Establishment. In 1944, he moved to the British Rubber Producers Research Association (BRPRA)
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... Rivlin made crucial contributions to the theories of finite elasticity, stability, constitutive equations for elastic and viscoelastic solids and fluids, internal variables, non-Newtonian fluids, electromagnetism, fracture, waves of linear viscoelastic materials, and crystal physics. Unlike his academic competitors, however, he did not publish books, so his intellectual legacy is distributed among hundreds of papers written over a period of 60 years of exceptional scientific productivity.
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... Whereas the classical mechanics approach of applying linear theory of elasticity did not have practical applications, Rivlin, with unsurpassed elegance, overcame the formidable difficulties in understanding the finite deformations characteristic of these materials. His exact solutions are universally recognized as a tipping point that demonstrated to the engineering community that rigorous mathematical results for nonlinear and large deformations could guide engineering design.
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... ; foreign member, Accademia Nazzionale dei Lincei (1982) ; Doctor honoris causus, Aristotilian University Thessaloniki (1984)
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