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Citations
15361
World Ranking
9075
National Ranking
2206

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Warner T. Koiter Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 2008 - William Prager Medal

Overview

Richard D. James is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and engineering, with significant contributions in several subfields, including materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, mechanical engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and biomedical engineering.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials
  • Advanced materials and mechanics
  • Structural analysis and optimization
  • Gas dynamics and kinetic theory
  • Shape memory alloy transformations
  • Electronic and structural properties of oxides
  • Magnetic properties of thin films

Recent papers authored by or associated with Richard D. James include:

  • Inverse design of deployable origami structures that approximate a general surface (2021), published in International Journal of Solids and Structures
  • The designs and deformations of rigidly and flat-foldable quadrilateral mesh origami (2020), published in Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • Tuning the hysteresis of a metal-insulator transition via lattice compatibility (2020), published in Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
  • Origami-inspired thin-film shape memory alloy devices (2021), published in Scientific Reports
  • Helical Miura origami (2020), published in Physical review. E

Frequent co-authors with whom Richard D. James has collaborated include Bharat Jalan, Eckhard Quandt, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Gunjan Pahlani, and Thomas E. Schwartzentruber.

The most frequent venues where Richard D. James has published are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports
  • Physical Review Materials

Awards received by Richard D. James are:

  • Warner T. Koiter Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2008
  • William Prager Medal, 2008

Best Publications

  • Fine phase mixtures as minimizers of energy

    J. M. Ball;J. M. Ball;Richard D James;Richard D James

  • Magnetostriction of martensite

    R. D. James;Manfred Wuttig

  • Proposed experimental tests of a theory of fine microstructure and the two-well problem

    J. M. Ball;R. D. James

  • Combinatorial search of thermoelastic shape-memory alloys with extremely small hysteresis width

    Jun Cui;Jun Cui;Yong S. Chu;Olugbenga O. Famodu;Yasubumi Furuya

  • Magnetic and magnetomechanical properties of Ni2MnGa

    R. Tickle;R.D. James

  • Martensitic transformations and shape-memory materials ☆

    R.D. James;K.F. Hane

  • Enhanced reversibility and unusual microstructure of a phase-transforming material

    Yintao Song;Xian Chen;Vivekanand Dabade;Thomas W. Shield

  • Identification of Quaternary Shape Memory Alloys with Near‐Zero Thermal Hysteresis and Unprecedented Functional Stability

    Robert Zarnetta;Ryota Takahashi;Ryota Takahashi;Marcus L. Young;Alan Savan

  • Energy barriers and hysteresis in martensitic phase transformations

    Zhiyong Zhang;Richard D. James;Stefan Müller

  • Ferromagnetic shape memory in the NiMnGa system

    R. Tickle;R.D. James;T. Shield;M. Wuttig;M. Wuttig

  • A theory of thin films of martensitic materials with applications to microactuators

    K. Bhattacharya;Richard D James

  • A constrained theory of magnetoelasticity

    Antonio DeSimone;Richard D. James

  • Kinetics of materials with wiggly energies: Theory and application to the evolution of twinning microstructures in a Cu-Al-Ni shape memory alloy

    Rohan Abeyaratne;C. Chu;R.D. James

  • Frustration in ferromagnetic materials

    R. D. James;D. Kinderlehrer

  • Micromagnetics of very thin films

    Gustavo Gioia;Richard D. James

  • Phase transformation and magnetic anisotropy of an iron-palladium ferromagnetic shape-memory alloy

    J. Cui;T.W. Shield;R.D. James

  • The Propagation of Phase Boundaries in Elastic Bars

    Richard D. James

  • Molecular beam epitaxy growth of ferromagnetic single crystal (001) Ni2MnGa on (001) GaAs

    J. W. Dong;L. C. Chen;C. J. Palmstrom;R. D. James

  • Finite deformation by mechanical twinning

    Richard D. James

  • Hysteresis and unusual magnetic properties in the singular Heusler alloy Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10

    Vijay Srivastava;Xian Chen;Richard D. James

  • The Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity Using Multiferroic Alloys

    Vijay Srivastava;Yintao Song;Kanwal Bhatti;R. D. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Leighton
Chris Leighton University of Minnesota
Chris Palmstrom
Chris Palmstrom University of California, Santa Barbara
John M. Ball
John M. Ball University of Oxford
Manfred Wuttig
Manfred Wuttig University of Maryland, College Park
Stefan Müller
Stefan Müller Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Kaushik Bhattacharya
Kaushik Bhattacharya California Institute of Technology
Mitchell Luskin
Mitchell Luskin University of Minnesota
Eckhard Quandt
Eckhard Quandt Kiel University
Dominique Schryvers
Dominique Schryvers University of Antwerp
Ichiro Takeuchi
Ichiro Takeuchi University of Maryland, College Park

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