Rohan Abeyaratne

SMART Director & Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics

Room 3-366
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-0066
Fax: 617-258-6156
Email: rohan@smart.mit.edu

Administrative Contact:
Debra Blanchard
Room 3-264
Phone: 617-258-5808
Email: drblnc@smart.mit.edu

Mailing Address (Singapore)

SMART Centre
S16-05-08
3 Science Drive 2
Singapore 117543

Education

B.Sc., University of Ceylon, 1975

M.Sc., California Institute of Technology, 1976
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1979

Honors & Awards

2007 - 2008 - President, American Academy of Mechanics
2001 - Quentin Berg Professorship
2000 - MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT
1998 - Fellow, ASME
1996 - Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics
1995 - Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award
1988 - MIT Graduate Teaching Award
1975 - E.O.E. Pereira Gold Medal, University of Ceylon

Major Lectures

2007 - Plenary Lecture, ASME Mechanics & Materials Conference, Austin, TX
2005 - Keynote Lecture, Workshop on Mathematical Materials Science, International Center for Mathematical Sciences, UK
2003-04 - Midwest Mechanics Lecturer
2002 - Southwest Mechanics Lecturer
1984 - General Lecture, 10th Canadian Fracture Conference

Professional Service

2009 - Director, SMART (Singapore MIT Alliance Research & Technology)

2008 -09 - co-Director, SMART (Singapore MIT Alliance Research & Technology)

2001-08 - MIT Mechanical Engineering Department Head

2007 - Chair, Visiting Committee, Georgia Tech, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
2006 - Chair, Task Force on Mechanics Education, American Academy of Mechanics
2005 - Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
2005 - External Examiner, Faculty of Engineering, University of Sri Lanka
2005 - Chair, MIT Engineering Council's Working Group on Life Sciences and Human Health
2003 - Professional Advisory Board, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota
2003 - Member, U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
2003 - External Review Committee, John's Hopkins University: School of Engineering
2002 - External Evaluation Committee, Brown University: Mechanical Engineering Program
2001 - Visiting Committee, Cornell University, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
1993 - ASME Technical Committee on Instability in Solids and Structures
1988 - ASME Technical Committee on Elasticity

Editorial Boards

2005 - Associate Editor, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
2005 - Editorial Board, International Journal of Solids and Structures
1995 - Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
1991-96 - Editorial Board, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
1989 - Editorial Board, International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education

Research Interests

Continuum Mechanics; Finite Elasticity and Plasticity; Material Instability and Non-Equilibrium Behavior of Solids; Stress Induced Phase Transformations in Solids, Cavitation

Teaching Interests

Introductory and Advanced Mechanics of Deformable Solids, Dynamics, Elasticity, Continuum Mechanics