1973 – B.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
1976 – M.Sc., Department of Material Science, Technion – I.I.T.
1979 – D.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – I.I.T.
Research Interests
Micro-Nano mechanics and multiscale phenomena.
Non-homogeneous and Composite Materials.
Fracture & Fatigue.
Functional Perturbation methods.
Mechanics involving Random morphology.
Guest Appointments
Visiting Professor, Weizmann Inst. of science, Rehovot, Israel (1999)
Visiting Professor, Univ. of British Columbia (1994)
Visiting Professor, Univ. of Toronto (1987-88)
Visiting Scientist, GWU, Washington DC (1979-1980)
Consultant IMI (1991-1993)
Consultant IAI (1983-1987)
Public Professional Activities
Head of department for pre-academic and youth studies (1998-1999)
Coordinator for Undergraduate Studies (1994)
Honors and Awards
Muriel and David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching (1990)
Altus E., Konstantino E., 2001, “Optimum laser surface treatment of fatigue damaged Ti-6Al-4V alloy”, Material Science and Engineering A302:100-105
Altus E., 2001, “Statistical Modeling of Heterogeneous Microbeams”, Int. .J. Solids & Structures, 38:5915-5934
Altus E., 2002, “Nonlinear differential equation for fatigue damage evolution by a micromechanic model “, Int. J. Mechanics Of Materials, 34(5):257-266
Altus E., Gerstman Z., Golubchick A., 2002 (invited paper), “Two Level Fatigue Loading (H-L) of Mg Alloys: Micromechanic Modeling vs. Experiments”, Metallurgical Science and Technology, 20(2):3-8
Altus E., Givli S., 2003, “Strength reliability of Statistically Heterogeneous Microbeams”, Int. J. Solids & Structures, 40(9):2069-2083.
Altus E., 2003, “On Springs and Matrices”, Int. J. Mechanical Engineering Education, 31(3):215-225
Altus E., Totry E., 2003, “Buckling of stochastically heterogeneous beams, using a functional perturbation method”, Int. J. Solids & Structures 40(23):6547-6565
Givli S., Altus E., 2003, “Effect of strength-modulus correlation on reliability of randomly heterogeneous beams”, Int. J. Solids & Structures 40(24):6703-6722
Altus E., 2003, “Analysis of Bernoulli beams with 3D stochastic heterogeneity”, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 18(4):301-314
Totry, E., Altus, E., 2004, “Buckling design of stochastically heterogeneous beams”, J. Mech. Behavior of Materials 14(6)339-354
Altus, E., Proskura, A., Givli, S., 2004, “A new Functional Perturbation Method for linear heterogeneous materials”, Int. J. Solids and Structures, 42(5-6):1577-1595
Altus, E., Givli, S., 2004, “Fracture mechanics of stochastically heterogeneous double cantilever beam”, Int. J. Fracture, in press
Altus, E., Totry, E., Givli, S., 2004, “Optimized Functional Perturbation Method and Morphology Based Effective Properties of Randomly Heterogeneous Beams”, Int. J. Solids and Structures, in press
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa