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D-Index
57
Citations
12953
World Ranking
793
National Ranking
339

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - A.C. Eringen Medal
  • 1992 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Cornelius O. Horgan is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States, with a research focus primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work spans several specialized subfields including Biomedical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes, Mechanical Engineering, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The scientific contributions of Cornelius O. Horgan encompass a variety of topics centered on material behavior and mechanical properties. Frequent subjects in their research include Elasticity and Material Modeling, Elasticity and Wave Propagation, Rheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies, Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics, Connective Tissue Disorders Research, Composite Material Mechanics, and Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties.

Key publication venues for their work include the Journal of Elasticity, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, and Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Cornelius O. Horgan include:

  • A note on a class of generalized neo-Hookean models for isotropic incompressible hyperelastic materials, 2020, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
  • Extension and torsion of rubber-like hollow and solid circular cylinders for incompressible isotropic hyperelastic materials with limiting chain extensibility, 2021, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • ASSESSMENT OF A NEW ISOTROPIC HYPERELASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODEL FOR A RANGE OF RUBBERLIKE MATERIALS AND DEFORMATIONS, 2021, Rubber Chemistry and Technology
  • On Modelling Simple Shear for Isotropic Incompressible Rubber-Like Materials, 2021, Journal of Elasticity
  • A three-parameter structurally motivated robust constitutive model for isotropic incompressible unfilled and filled rubber-like materials, 2022, European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids

The scientist has often collaborated with the following coauthors:

  • Jeremiah G. Murphy
  • Afshin Anssari-Benam
  • J. G. Murphy
  • Andrea Bucchi
  • Giuseppe Saccomandi

Cornelius O. Horgan has been recognized with professional awards including the A.C. Eringen Medal in 2005 and the status of Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers since 1992.

Best Publications

  • Anisotropic Elasticity: Theory and Applications

    T. C. T. Ting;C. O. Horgan

  • Recent Developments Concerning Saint-Venant's Principle

    Cornelius O. Horgan;James K. Knowles

  • Recent Developments Concerning Saint-Venant’s Principle: An Update

    Cornelius O. Horgan

  • An introduction to the theory of elasticity

    R. J. Atkin;N. Fox;C. O. Horgan

  • The Pressurized Hollow Cylinder or Disk Problem for Functionally Graded Isotropic Linearly Elastic Materials

    C O Horgan;A M Chan

  • Cavitation in Nonlinearly Elastic Solids: A Review

    C. O. Horgan;D. A. Polignone

  • Korn's inequalities and their applications in continuum mechanics

    C. O. Horgan

  • A bifurcation problem for a compressible nonlinearly elastic medium: growth of a micro-void

    C. O. Horgan;R. Abeyaratne

  • A molecular-statistical basis for the Gent constitutive model of rubber elasticity

    Cornelius O. Horgan;Giuseppe Saccomandi

  • Anti-plane shear deformations in linear and nonlinear solid mechanics

    C. O. Horgan

  • The remarkable Gent constitutive model for hyperelastic materials

    Cornelius O. Horgan

  • A description of arterial wall mechanics using limiting chain extensibility constitutive models.

    C. O. Horgan;G. Saccomandi

  • A new constitutive theory for fiber-reinforced incompressible nonlinearly elastic solids

    Cornelius O. Horgan;Giuseppe Saccomandi

  • Spatial Decay Estimates for the Navier–Stokes Equations with Application to the Problem of Entry Flow

    C. O. Horgan;L. T. Wheeler

  • A theory of stress softening of elastomers based on finite chain extensibility

    Cornelius O. Horgan;R. A. Y. W. Ogden;Giuseppe Saccomandi

  • On inequalities of Korn, Friedrichs and Babuška-Aziz

    C. O. Horgan;L. E. Payne

  • Phenomenological Hyperelastic Strain-Stiffening Constitutive Models for Rubber

    Cornelius O. Horgan;Giuseppe Saccomandi

  • Saint-Venant’s Principle and End Effects in Anisotropic Elasticity

    I. Choi;C. O. Horgan

  • The Stress Response of Functionally Graded Isotropic Linearly Elastic Rotating Disks

    C.O. Horgan;A.M. Chan

  • Spatial decay estimates in transient heat conduction

    C. O. Horgan;L. E. Payne;L. T. Wheeler

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Saccomandi
Giuseppe Saccomandi University of Perugia
Lawrence E. Payne
Lawrence E. Payne Cornell University
Sia Nemat-Nasser
Sia Nemat-Nasser University of California, San Diego
Ramón Quintanilla
Ramón Quintanilla Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
James K. Knowles
James K. Knowles California Institute of Technology
Jay D. Humphrey
Jay D. Humphrey Yale University
Michel Destrade
Michel Destrade University of Galway
Ray W. Ogden
Ray W. Ogden University of Glasgow
David J. Steigmann
David J. Steigmann University of California, Berkeley
Leif A. Carlsson
Leif A. Carlsson Florida Atlantic University

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