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Ares J. Rosakis
American professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineeringborn 1956
Supervised 29 doctoral students and 1 student of a level not given at California Institute of Technology between 1987 and 2024; Wikidata names Jacques (Jack) Wayne Duffy and Lambert Ben Freund as doctoral advisors and lists 25 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 5 other registers.

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Students30
- cited by a thesis record
Krittanon Sirorattanakul“Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature”
2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marcello Gori“Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection”
2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Vahe Gabuchian“Experimental Investigation of Thrust Fault Rupture Mechanics”
2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jonathan Michael Mihaly“Investigation of Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena Using Real-time Concurrent Diagnostics”
2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Mello“Identifying the Unique Ground Motion Signatures of Supershear Earthquakes: Theory and Experiments”
2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Leslie Elise Lamberson“Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage”
2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiao Lu“Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture on Frictional Interfaces”
2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michal Amaris Brown“Measuring Stress in Thin-Film - Substrate Systems Featuring Spatial Nonuniformities of Film Thickness and/or Misfit Strain”
2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Georgios C. Lykotrafitis“Experimental Study of Dynamic Frictional Sliding Modes along Incoherent Interfaces”
2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kaiwen Xia“Laboratory Investigations of Earthquake Dynamics”
2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Deloyd Anderson“Experimental Investigation of Quasistatic and Dynamic Fracture Properties of Titanium Alloys”
2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luoyu Roy Xu“Dynamic Failure Characteristics in Layered Materials and Structures”
2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Benjamin Bin Chow“Application of dynamic fracture mechanics to the investigation of catastrophic failure in aircraft structures”
2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Demirkan Coker“Dynamic Initiation and Propagation of Cracks in Unidirectional Composite Plates”
2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Pradeep Reddy Guduru“An investigation of dynamic failure events in steels using full field high-speed infrared thermography and high-speed photography”
2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Omprakash Samudrala“Subsonic and intersonic crack growth along weak planes and bimaterial interfaces”
2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Keith Scott Haberman“A Micromechanical Constitutive Model for the Dynamic Response of Brittle Materials "Dynamic Response of Marble"”
2000 · California Institute of Technology · level not given - cited by a thesis record
Robert Dale Conner“Mechanical properties of bulk metallic glass matrix composites”
1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Kate Elizabeth Fey“Experimental and theoretical aspects of dynamic crack growth along bimaterial interfaces”
1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hugh Alan Bruck“Quasi-static and dynamic constitutive characterization of beryllium bearing bulk metallic glasses”
1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Cheng Liu“Dynamic fracture problems involving highly transient crack growth histories : an investigation of dynamic failure in homgeneous and bimaterial systems”
1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
James Joseph Mason“Mechanisms and effects of heat generation at the tips of dynamic cracks and notches in metals”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Lingyun Lu“On the development and application of a modified boundary element method for the analysis of three-dimensional elastostatic problems in thick plates”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiaomin Deng“Dynamic Crack Propagation in Elastic-Plastic Solids”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Peter D. Washabaugh“An experimental investigation of mode-I crack tip deformation”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sridhar Krishnaswamy“On the Domain of Dominance of the Asymptotic Elastodynamic Crack-Tip Fields”
1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Narasimhan Ramarathnam“Mode I, Plane Stress Crack Initiation and Growth in Elastic-Plastic Solids: A Finite Element Analysis”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alan T. Zehnder“Dynamic Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Metals: Experimental Results and Techniques”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Students on Wikidata25
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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.
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stated by WikidataJacques (Jack) Wayne Duffystated by WikidataLambert Ben Freund
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stated by WikidataJan D. Achenbachstated by WikidataRaymond D. Mindlin
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stated by WikidataChi Chang Chaostated by WikidataHarald Malcolm Westergaard
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stated by WikidataArthur Newell Talbotstated by WikidataAugust Föpplstated by WikidataBruno A. Boleystated by WikidataLudwig Föpplstated by WikidataLudwig Prandtlstated by WikidataSebastian Finsterwalder
Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 110 people: 29 cited by thesis records, 81 stated by Wikidata.
Education and career4
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Sat beside the lineage67
committee member, not advisor
- cited by a thesis record
Krittanon Sirorattanakul“Response of Earthquakes to Transient Stresses, in Laboratory and Nature”
committee member · 2024 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Vatsa Bhupeshkumar Gandhi“Shock Compression of Body-Centered Cubic Metals from the Atomistic to Continuum Scale: Iron and Molybdenum”
committee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kanthasamy Ubamanyu“Time-Dependent Failure of Thin-Ply Composite Laminates”
committee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Stephen IV Weeks“Mechanical Response of Lattice Structures under High Strain-Rate and Shock Loading”
committee member · 2023 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
John Michael Harmon“Predicting the Strength of Planetary Surfaces”
committee member · 2022 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Konstantinos Karapiperis“Multiscale, Data-Driven and Nonlocal Modeling of Granular Materials”
committee member · 2021 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christophe Leclerc“Mechanics of Ultra-Thin Composite Coilable Structures”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Liuchi Li“Linking Micro-Structure to Macro-Behavior of Granular Matter: From Flowing Heterogeneously to Morphing Adaptively”
committee member · 2020 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Christian Kettenbeil“Dynamic Strength of Silica Glasses at High Pressures and Strain Rates”
committee member · 2019 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Marcello Gori“Laboratory Investigation of Shear Ruptures: Supersonic Propagation and Nucleation by Fluid Injection”
committee member · 2018 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Zachary Martin Murphy Sternberger“Determining Strength of Materials Under Dynamic Loading Conditions Using Hydrodynamic Instabilities”
committee member · 2017 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Vahe Gabuchian“Experimental Investigation of Thrust Fault Rupture Mechanics”
committee member · 2015 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jonathan Michael Mihaly“Investigation of Hypervelocity Impact Phenomena Using Real-time Concurrent Diagnostics”
committee member · 2013 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michael Mello“Identifying the Unique Ground Motion Signatures of Supershear Earthquakes: Theory and Experiments”
committee member · 2012 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Leslie Elise Lamberson“Dynamic Optical Investigations of Hypervelocity Impact Damage”
committee member · 2010 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiao Lu“Combined Experimental and Numerical Study of Spontaneous Dynamic Rupture on Frictional Interfaces”
committee member · 2009 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Michal Amaris Brown“Measuring Stress in Thin-Film - Substrate Systems Featuring Spatial Nonuniformities of Film Thickness and/or Misfit Strain”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kaushik Dayal“Nonlocal Microstructural Mechanics of Active Materials”
committee member · 2007 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Georgios C. Lykotrafitis“Experimental Study of Dynamic Frictional Sliding Modes along Incoherent Interfaces”
committee member · 2006 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kaiwen Xia“Laboratory Investigations of Earthquake Dynamics”
committee member · 2005 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Matthew Justin Fago“Constrained Sequential Lamination: Nonconvex Optimization and Material Microstructure”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Qiang Yang“Thermomechanical Variational Principles for Dissipative Materials with Application to Strain Localization in Bulk Metallic Glasses”
committee member · 2004 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
David Deloyd Anderson“Experimental Investigation of Quasistatic and Dynamic Fracture Properties of Titanium Alloys”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luis González Liñero“Global Fracture Analysis of Laminated Composite Materials for Aerospace Structures”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Olivier Thanh Nguyen“Cohesive Models of Fatigue Crack Growth and Stress-Corrosion Cracking”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Prashant Kishore Purohit“Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Strings, Beams and Atomic Chains”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Anupama Venkataraman“Investigating the Mechanics of Earthquakes Using Macroscopic Seismic Parameters”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Luoyu Roy Xu“Dynamic Failure Characteristics in Layered Materials and Structures”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Shiming Zhuang“Shock Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Composites”
committee member · 2002 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eric Noboru Burcsu“Investigation of Large Strain Actuation in Barium Titanate”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Demirkan Coker“Dynamic Initiation and Propagation of Cracks in Unidirectional Composite Plates”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ying Huang“Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Digital Image Correlation in Nanomechanics Investigations”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Chengxiang Rena Yu“Three-Dimensional Cohesive Modeling of Impact Damage of Composites”
committee member · 2001 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kenji Oguni“Micromechanical Aspects of Failure in Unidirectional Fiber Reinforced Composites”
committee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sangwook Lee“Failure of laminated composites at thickness discontinuities under complex loading and elevated temperatures”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Karina Luciel Montilla Edmonds“Shock Wave Processing of Transitional Metal Silicides”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tony H. Deng“Measurement of the dynamic bulk compliance of polymers”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Wenshui Gan“Earthquake Response of Steel Braces and Braced Steel Frames”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sergio Ricardo Turteltaub“Dynamics of phase transformations in thermoelastic solids”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kate Elizabeth Fey“Experimental and theoretical aspects of dynamic crack growth along bimaterial interfaces”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Mark E. Walter“The evolution of damage in ceramic matrix composites”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Hugh Alan Bruck“Quasi-static and dynamic constitutive characterization of beryllium bearing bulk metallic glasses”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Weinong Chen“Dynamic failure behavior of ceramics under multiaxial compression”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiaoguang Allan Zhong“Continuum dynamics of solid-solid phase transitions”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Cong N. Duong“A nonlinear thermoviscoelastic stress and fracture analysis of an adhesive bond”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
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Cheng Liu“Dynamic fracture problems involving highly transient crack growth histories : an investigation of dynamic failure in homgeneous and bimaterial systems”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis recordcommittee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
- cited by a thesis record
Guillermo C. Pulos“Nonsteady crack propagation and craze behavior in PMMA”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Timothy M. Minahen“Structural instabilities involving time dependent materials : theory and experiment”
committee member · 1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Eliot Fried“Aspects of the morphological character and stability of two-phase states in non-elliptic solids”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Thomas J. Kubr“Stresses near a change of thickness in a continuous-fiber-composite plate”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · level not given - cited by a thesis record
Richard D. Pfaff“Three-dimensional effects in nonlinear fracture explored with interferometry”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Xiaomin Deng“Dynamic Crack Propagation in Elastic-Plastic Solids”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Sridhar Krishnaswamy“On the Domain of Dominance of the Asymptotic Elastodynamic Crack-Tip Fields”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jurgen Johannes Giezen“Plastic Buckling of Cylinders Under Biaxial Loading”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Raghu Madhavan“On the Collapse of Long Thick-Walled Circular Tubes under Biaxial Loading”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Ian Dennis Parsons“The Application of the Multigrid Method to the Finite Element Solution of Solid Mechanics Problems”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Anthony Marius Waas“Compression Failure of Fibrous Laminated Composites in the Presence of Stress Gradients: Experiment and Analysis”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Narasimhan Ramarathnam“Mode I, Plane Stress Crack Initiation and Growth in Elastic-Plastic Solids: A Finite Element Analysis”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Alan T. Zehnder“Dynamic Fracture Initiation and Propagation in Metals: Experimental Results and Techniques”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Janet A. Blume“Some Issues in the Kinematics of Finite Deformations”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Stewart Andrew Silling“Singularities and Phase Transitions in Elastic Solids: Numerical Studies and Stability Analysis”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Tawach Ungsuwarungsri“The Effect of Strain-Softening Cohesive Material on Crack Stability”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Dov Elyada“Structural Analysis of Imperfect Three-Legged Truss Columns for Large Space Structures Applications”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Kerry John Vahala“Dynamic and Spectral Features of Semiconductor Lasers”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral - cited by a thesis record
Jason Masao Wakugawa“On the Existence and Uniqueness of the Solution to the Small-Scale Nonlinear Anti-Plane Shear Crack Problem in Finite Elastostatics”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral