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FRANK A. MCCLINTOCK
FRANK A. MCCLINTOCK
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During World War II he worked for three years at the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, where he was one of eight engineers working on the development of the company's first jet engine. In 1946 he moved to California, where he earned a PhD in 1949 at the California Institute of Technology with a doctoral thesis on "The Fatigue Properties of Single Crystal Iron," the beginning of a lifelong absorption in the fundamental performancelimiting characteristics of engineering materials.
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This was followed in short order by an equally trendsetting publication, on the plasticity of the growth of fatigue cracks in 1963, that introduced the first mechanistic rationale on the growth of fatigue cracks by irreversible cyclic crack tip distortions in ductile metals. In an equally significant paper McClintock published the first mechanistic theory of ductile fracture of metals by the growth of holes nucleated from adventitious inclusion particles.
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He is virtually in a class by himself in being able to interact with, stimulate and understand the foremost engineers and scientists in relevant fields, who have all important, but otherwise disconnected contributions to make in relation to the fracture phenomenon and the elastic-plastic stages leading up to the fracture event.… McClintock's pioneering research in the mechanics and mechanisms of fatigue and ductile fracture represents only one facet of the man. Unlike many successful researchers who might be content to let their publications speak for themselves, McClintock took on with missionary zeal the task of disseminating the fundamental developments in the mechanisms of inelastic deformation and fracture of engineering materials to both students and professionals alike in the field.
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In the mid-1970s he chaired a National Research Council study committee on the Mechanical Properties of Infrared Transmitting Materials for the Defense Department and another on erosion. After his formal retirement in 1991 from active academic duties McClintock continued to make signal contributions to the understanding of the fracture phenomenon in highly important large-scale engineering applications.
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In addition to the James Clayton Prize mentioned above, McClintock's professional accomplishments were recognized by a series of prestigious honors and awards, including fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959, the Arpad Nadai Award of the ASME in 1978, an honorary doctorate of law degree from the University of Glasgow in 1981, an honorary fellowship of the International Congress on Fracture in 1989, the Howe Medal of the ASM in 1991, election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991, the Griffith Medal of the European Structural Integrity Society in 1999, and the Daniel Drucker Medal of the ASME in 2004. He was a member of ASME, ASM, ASTM, and ASEE.
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A former Eagle Scout, he served as a Boy Scout leader in Concord. He was active in the First Parish Meetinghouse as a member of the Humanist Group and served in diverse ways including as usher, church school teacher, member of the standing committee, and deacon.
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