Michael Thouless

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
2282 G. G. Brown Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2125
Phone: (734) 763-5289
Fax: (734) 647-3170
E-mail: thouless@umich.edu

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Permanent Positions

2000 - present	Professor, University of Michigan
1995 -2000	Associate Professor, University of Michigan
1988 - 1994	Research Staff Member, IBM Research Division
1985 - 1988	Assistant Research Engineer, UC Santa Barbara
1984 - 1985	Assistant Research Engineer, UC Berkeley

Education

1984	PhD, University of California, Berkeley Materials Science & Mineral Engineering, “Models of Creep Crack Growth in Ceramics,” Advisor: Prof. A. G. Evans
1982	MS, University of California, Berkeley Materials Science & Mineral Engineering, “Propagation of Creep Cracks by Cavitation in Fine-Grained Materials,” Advisor: Prof. A. G. Evans
1981	B. A. (Churchill College, University of Cambridge) Engineering Tripos Part 2 (1st. Class Honours) Engineering Tripos Part 1b (1st. Class Honours) Engineering Tripos Part 1a (1st. Class Honours) (M. A. awarded 1985)

Honours & Awards

2011	Overseas Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge
2009	ScD, University of Cambridge
2007	Fellow, ASME
2003	Listed as "Highly-cited researcher" in materials science category by ISI

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Publications

For details and copies of papers or pre-prints see publication list.

Fracture & mechanical properties of materials

· Cohesive-zone modelling

· Interfacial fracture

· Adhesion & adhesives

· Mechanics of welds

· Mechanics of nano and bio systems

· Delamination of films and coatings

· Buckling-driven delamination

· Modelling stresses in films and coatings

· Creep and creep rupture

· Composites and laminates

· Modelling diffusional creep and electromigration

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Teaching

Winter 2011

• ME 211 - introduction to solid mechanics

Winter 2012

• ME 382 - mechanical properties of materials"
• ME557 - materials selection

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