John P. Dempsey
Professor (Joined Clarkson in 1980)
240B Rowley Laboratories
Clarkson University
PO Box 5710
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710
Phone: 315-268-6517
FAX: 315-268-7985
E-mail: mailto:jdempsey@clarkson.eduEducation
Education
Ph.D., Engineering, University of Auckland 1979
B.E. (First Class Honors), Engineering Science, University of Auckland 1975
Professional Experience at Clarkson University
1997-present, Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
1990-present, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1986-1990, Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1980-1986, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
1980-1986, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Visiting Appointments
- 1998-1999, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Engineering and Overseas Fellow, Churchill College,University of Cambridge, UK
- Fall 1997, Williams Evans Visiting Fellowship, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin
- November 1997, Research visit to New Zealand's Scott Base, Antarctica
- December 1997-January 1998, University of Auckland Foundation Visitor, Department of Mathematics
- 1991-1992, Member, NAS/NRC US-USSR Ice Mechanics Committee
- June-August 1990, Visiting Professor, Departments of Engineering Science and Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- 1986-1987,Visiting Associate Professor, Ice Engineering Research Branch, Hanover, N.H.
- 1978-1980, Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University (with J.D.Achenbach)
Professional Registration
New York State, # 073518 (since July 30, 1986)
Awards And Honors
Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics, January 2000
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, December 1996
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, February 1996
ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, 1993
Professional Memberships
American Academy of Mechanics AAM 1983-present
American Society for Engineering Education ASEE 2001- present
American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE 1980-present
American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME 1979-present
International Glaciological Society IGS 1986-present
Society of Engineering Science, Inc. SES 1985-present
Society for Experimental Mechanics SEM 1989-present
Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics SIAM 1982-present
Research Interest
Effects of scale on the strength and fracture properties of structural materials; the analytical and experimental mechanics of materials behavior; the fracture mechanics of creep-brittle (quasi-brittle) materials; contact mechanics; composites and new materials; elasticity.
Selected Publications (last 5 years)
Full Publications
Journal Publications
J.P. Dempsey, A.C. Palmer and D.S. Sodhi, High pressure zone formation during compressive ice failure Engineering Fracture Mechanics 68 (2001) 1961-1974
J.P. Dempsey, Research trends in ice mechanics. International Journal of Solids and Structures37 (2000) 131-153
S.V. Mulmule and J.P. Dempsey, LEFM size requires testing of sea ice. International Journal of Fracture 102 (2000) 85-98
Books and Monographs
J.P. Dempsey, and H.H. Shen, Eds, IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands ISBN 1-4020-0171-1 (2001)
Discussions
J.P. Dempsey, (1999) Discussion of Z.P. Bažant and J.J.H. Kim, Size Effect in Penetration of Sea IcePlate with Part-Through Cracks. I: Theory. II: Results ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 124 (1998) 1310-1315 & 1316-1324. ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics 126 (2000) 438
Articles in Books & Monographs
J.P. Dempsey, The viscoelastic fracture and indentation of sea ice. IUTAM Symposium on Analyticaland Computational Fracture Mechanics of Non-homogeneous Materials (ed. B.L. Karihaloo). Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands (2002) 177-186.
D.M. Cole and J.P. Dempsey, Influence of scale on the constitutive behavior of sea ice. IUTAM Symposium on Scaling Laws in Ice Mechanics and Ice Dynamics (eds. J.P. on Dempsey and H.H.Shen) Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (2001) 251-264.
Conference Publications
D.M. Cole, J.P. Dempsey, G. Kjestveit, S. Shapiro, L.H. Shapiro and G.M. Morley. 2002. The cyclic and fracture response of sea ice in McMurdo Sound. Part I. In: Ice in the Environment (V. Squire and P. Langhorne, Eds.), Proc. 16th IAHR Symposium on Ice, University of Otago, New Zealand, Vol. 1 (2002) 474-481.
A. Palmer and J.P. Dempsey. 2002. Models of large-scale crushing and spalling related to high-pressure zones. In: Ice in the Environment (V. Squire and P. Langhorne, Eds.), Proc. 16th IAHR Symposium on Ice, University of Otago, New Zealand, Vol. 1 (2002) 495-502
J.P. Dempsey, On the high pressure zones that form during ice-structure interaction. Proc. 16th International POAC Conference, Vol. 3 (2001) 1365-1374