Jacob M.
Lifshitz
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500B, LD
Former Holder of the Dan Tolkovsky Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Education
- 1960 - B.Sc., Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - I.I.T.
- 1963 - M.Sc., Solid Mechanics, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA
- 1965 - Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA
Research Interests
- Interlaminar properties of fiber reinforced composite (FRC) laminates.
- Damage tolerance of graphite/epoxy beams under cyclic loading.
- Instrumented impact loading and repeated impact of FRP beams and plates.
- Stress wave loading (Hopkinson bar)of materials in tension, compression and shear
- Fatigue delamination of composite laminates in mode I, II and III.
- Vibration damping
- Filament wound pressure vessels: residual strength and repair after impact
- Mechanical properties of microsensor materials
Guest Appointments
- Senior Res. Assoc., NRC, NASA Ames, Calif. (1985-1987, 1978-1979)
- Senior Foreign Sci. Fellow, NSF, IIT Chicago, Ill. (1971-1972)
- Visiting Assoc. Prof., IIT, Chicago, Ill. (1971-1972)
- Assist. Prof. (Research), Brown Univ., R.I. (1965)
Public Professional Activities
- Head of Material Mechanics Laboratories
Membership in Professional Societies
- ASTM
- ISTAM
- J.M. Lifshitz, "Deformational behavior of a unidirectional Graphite/Epoxy composite under compressive fatigue", J. of Composites Technology & Research, Vol. 11, No. 3, 99-105, (1989).
- M. Leibowitz and J.M. Lifshitz, "Experimental verification of modal parameters for 3-layered sandwich beams", Int. J. Solids Structures, Vol. 26, No. 2, 175-184, (1990).
- J.M. Lifshitz and H. Leber, "Data processing in the Split Hopkinson pressure bar tests", Int. J. of Impact Engineering, Vol. 15, No. 6, 723-733, (1994).
- J.M. Lifshitz, F. Gov and M. Gandelsman, "Instrumented low velocity impact of CFRP beams", Int. J. of Impact Engineering, Vol. 16, No. 2, 201-215, (1995).
- J.M. Lifshitz and H. Dayan, "Filament-wound pressure vessel with thick metal liner", composite Structures, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-4, 313-323, (1994).
- H. Leber and J.M. Lifshitz, "Interlaminar Shear Behavior of Plain Weave GFRP at Static and High Rates of Strain", Composites Science and Technology, Vol. 56, No. 4, 391-405, (1996).
- J.M. Lifshitz and M. Gandelsman, "Effect of Near Surface Impact-Induced Damage on the Residual Strength of Woven Glass/Epoxy Composite Beams", Composite Science and Technology, Vol. 57, No. 2, 205-216, (1997).
- J.M. Lifshitz and D. Gildin, "Failure of Delaminated Carbon/Epoxy Composite Beams under Cyclic Compression", Composite Structures, Vol. 39, Nos. 3-4, 289-296, (1997).
- J.M. Lifshitz and H. Leber, "Response of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers to High- Strain-Rate Loading in Interlaminar Tension and Combined Tension/Shear", Composites Sci. & Technology, Vol. 58, No. 6, 987-996, (1998).
- O. Ishai and J.M. Lifshitz, "Quality Assurance of GFRP Pipes for Seawater Cooling of Power Plants", J. of Composites for Construction, ASCE, (1999).
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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