Robert Reiss, Ph.D.
Professor

Phone: 202-806-6611
Email: [email protected]

Research Topics
Sensitivity Analysis- basic research and applications to mechanics of composite materials, structural optimization, and structural dynamics; Development of new variational principles; Biomechanics.

Summary of Recent Research
Recent work has focused on obtaining approximate closed form solutions to linear and non-linear equations by applying sensitivity analysis. Particular attention has been paid to certain specific classes of linear and nonlinear eigenvalue problems.

Recent Publications
Reiss, R., Glakpe, E.K., and Qian, B., A Model for Thermally Induced Interlaminar Stresses, Proc. International Symposium on Manufacturing and Materials Processing, editor: W. Aung, Begell House, Inc., New York, 1997, pp.39-49.

Barton, Jr., O., and Reiss, R., Buckling of Rectangular Symmetric Laminated Plates Determined by Eigensensitivity Analysis, AIAA Journal, Vol. 33, 12, December 1995, pp. 2406-2413. (Also AIAA paper # 94-1575, April 1994)

Zhang, L., Aung, W., and Reiss, R., Three Dimensional Mixed Convection in a Concentric Circular Annulus with Inner Cylinder Rotation, Proceedings. 6th AIAA / ASME Joint Thermophysics and Heat Transfer Conference, June 1994.

Barton, Jr., O., and Reiss, R., Vibration of Antisymmetric Laminated Plates Using Eigensensitivity Analysis ,Computers and Structures, Vol.64, No. 124 pp.429-439, June 1997. Also in Advances in Computational Mechanics, Civil-Comp Press, August 1994, pp.239-252.

Reiss, R. Tomlinson, N., and Barton, Jr., O., "Approximate Solutions for Quartic Eigenvalue Problems," Proc. Pan American Congress of Applied Mechanics, (PACAM V), San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 1997.