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76
Citations
21144
World Ranking
706
National Ranking
243

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Mayo D. Hersey Award, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2003 - Daniel C. Drucker Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2003 - Drucker Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1997 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the application of elasticity to design problems involving contact and fracture.
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1972 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Leon M. Keer was affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the field of engineering, with a significant number of contributions in the subfields of mechanics of materials, civil and structural engineering, computational theory and mathematics, mechanical engineering, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

The research topics Leon M. Keer contributed to included adhesion, friction, and surface interactions; numerical methods in engineering; fatigue and fracture mechanics; mechanical stress and fatigue analysis; contact mechanics and variational inequalities; composite material mechanics; and force microscopy techniques and applications.

The scientist's recent papers covered various aspects of mechanics and computational methods. These included:

  • "Analytical solution for the displacement of a polygonal inclusion with a special application to the case of linear eigenstrain" (2020), European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • "Discrete convolution and FFT method with summation of influence coefficients (DCS-FFT) for three-dimensional contact of inhomogeneous materials" (2020), Computational Mechanics
  • "Contact probing of prestressed adhesive membranes of living cells" (2021), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences
  • "3D random packing algorithm of ellipsoidal particles based on the Monte Carlo method" (2020), Magazine of Concrete Research
  • "Collective indentation as a novel strategy for mechanical palpation tomography" (2020), Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Leon M. Keer frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Journal of Thermal Stresses
  • European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Computational Mechanics

Collaboration played an important role in their research, with frequent coauthors including Xiaoqing Jin, Yao Yao, Pu Li, Ying Huang, and Wanyou Yang.

Throughout their career, Leon M. Keer's work received recognition in the form of several awards. These included the Mayo D. Hersey Award (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008), the Drucker Medal (American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2003), and the Daniel C. Drucker Medal (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2003). They were elected a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for contributions to the application of elasticity to design problems involving contact and fracture. Earlier distinctions included being named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1984 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1972.

Best Publications

  • A mathematical analysis for indentation tests of articular cartilage.

    W. C. Hayes;Leon M Keer;G. Herrmann;L. F. Mockros

  • A numerical method for solving rough contact problems based on the multi-level multi-summation and conjugate gradient techniques

    I.A. Polonsky;L.M. Keer

  • Solution of Crack Problems: The Distributed Dislocation Technique

    D. A. Hills;P. A. Kelly;D. N. Dai;A. M. Korsunsky

  • Stress Intensity Factors Handbook, Vol. 3

    Y. Murakami;L. M. Keer

  • Dislocation based fracture mechanics

    Johannes Weertman;L. M. Keer

  • A Pitting Model for Rolling Contact Fatigue

    Leon M Keer;M. D. Bryant

  • Creep, stress relaxation, and plastic deformation in Sn-Ag and Sn-Zn eutectic solders

    H. Mavoori;J. Chin;S. Vaynman;B. Moran

  • Growth rate of a penny-shaped crack in hydraulic fracturing of rocks

    H. Abé;L. M. Keer;T. Mura

  • A review of recent works on inclusions

    Kun Zhou;Hsin Jen Hoh;Xu Wang;Leon M. Keer

  • Vibration and stability of cracked rectangular plates

    B. Stahl;Leon M Keer

  • Unstable growth of thermally induced interacting cracks in brittle solids

    S. Nemat-Nasser;Leon M Keer;K. S. Parihar

  • Scattering of elastic waves by a surface-breaking crack

    D.A. Mendelsohn;J.D. Achenbach;L.M. Keer

  • Problems involving a receding contact between a layer and a half space

    L. M. Keer;J. Dundurs;K. C. Tsai

  • SUBSURFACE AND SURFACE CRACKING DUE TO HERTZIAN CONTACT.

    L. M. Keer;M. D. Bryant;G. K. Haritos

  • Understanding of micro-alloying on plasticity in Cu46Zr47−xAl7Dyx (0≤ x ≤ 8) bulk metallic glasses under compression: Based on mechanical relaxations and theoretical analysis

    J.C. Qiao;Y. Yao;J.M. Pelletier;L.M. Keer

  • Influence of Surface Modification on the Microstructure and Thermo-Mechanical Properties of Bamboo Fibers

    Xiaoping Zhang;Fang Wang;Leon M Keer

  • Microstructure evolution and shear fracture behavior of aged Sn3Ag0.5Cu/Cu solder joints

    Xiaowu Hu;Tao Xu;Leon M. Keer;Yulong Li

  • An analytical model of joint contact.

    A. W. Eberhardt;L. M. Keer;Jack L Lewis;V. Vithoontien

  • Wear‐Contact Problems and Modeling of Chemical Mechanical Polishing

    O. G. Chekina;L. M. Keer;H. Liang

  • Fast Methods for Solving Rough Contact Problems: A Comparative Study

    I. A. Polonsky;Leon M Keer

  • Micromechanics Modeling of Crack Initiation Under Contact Fatigue

    W. Cheng;H. S. Cheng;T. Mura;L. M. Keer

  • Solution of Crack Problems: The Distributed Dislocation Technique, by D.A. Hills, P.A. Kelly, D.N. Dai and A.M. Korsunsky: Journal of Applied Mechanics

    L. M. Keer

Frequent Co-Authors

Q. Jane Wang
Q. Jane Wang Northwestern University
Morris E. Fine
Morris E. Fine Northwestern University
Kun Zhou
Kun Zhou Nanyang Technological University
Sia Nemat-Nasser
Sia Nemat-Nasser University of California, San Diego
Jan Drewes Achenbach
Jan Drewes Achenbach Northwestern University
Jack Lewis
Jack Lewis University of Cambridge
Brian Moran
Brian Moran King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Wenbin Lin
Wenbin Lin Westlake University
Surendra P. Shah
Surendra P. Shah Northwestern University
Yip-Wah Chung
Yip-Wah Chung Northwestern University

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