Washington University Engineering

Kenneth Jerina

Professor and Associate Department Chair for Mechanical Engineering

The Earl E. and Myrtle E. Walker Professor of Engineering

Biography

Professor Jerina was an assistant professor at Texas A&M University from 1978 to 1982.

Before he joined academia, he was the Director of the Experimental Mechanics Research Laboratory at MTS Systems Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota and a Materials Research Engineer at the Air Force Materials Laboratory of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.

Research

Technologies for the life prediction and maintenance of aging aircraft systems for military and civil aircraft, constitutive modeling for engineering design methods, and fatigue behavior at high temperatures with complex thermally activated time dependent processes are some of Professor Jerina’s research interests.

Selected Publications

Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices – Second Volume ASTM STP 1515, Jerina, K. L. and Mitchell M. R., editors, American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 2010.

Fatigue and Fracture of Medical Metallic Materials and Devices ASTM STP 1481, Mitchell, M. R. and Jerina, K. L., editors, American Society for Testing and Materials, West Conshohocken, PA, 2007.

H. J. Brandon, K. L. Jerina, T. Savoy, C. Wolf, “Scanning Electron Microscope Fractography of Induced Fatigue Damaged Saline Breast Implants,” Journal of Long Term Effects of Medical Implants, Vol 16, No 1, pp71-82, 2006

H. J. Brandon, K. L. Jerina, C. J. Wolf, V. L. Young, A. Robert, “Retrieval and Analysis of Plastic Surgery Devices,” Proceedings 7th World Biomaterials Congress, Sydney, Australia, May 2004.

Brandon HJ, Young VL, Jerina KL, Wolf CJ. "Variability in the Properties of Silicone Gel Breast Implants," Plast Reconstr Surg Vol. 108, No. 3, Sept. 2001.

Selected Research

High Cycle Fatigue – Fatigue of conventional and advanced metallic, polymeric and composite materials with desirable properties for extreme environments in diesel engines and gas turbines. The principal areas of research are: material high cycle fatigue capability under variable damage states; the effect of notches; and the effect of fretting fatigue.

Constitutive Modeling for Engineering Design - The formulation of constitutive modeling methods for engineering design problems such that an acceptably accurate and reliable prediction of the physical behavior can be obtained given uncertainties in material property information and modeling.

Silicone Elastomers – Constitutive modeling and mechanical property characterization. The measurement of monotonic mechanical, time dependent and fatigue properties of silicone elastomers. Modeling and determination of long-term changes in the mechanical properties and the relationship of these changes to the microstructure and structure property relationships for polymers.

Contact Kenneth Jerina

Address	1 Brookings Drive
Campus Box	1185
City/St/Zip	St. Louis, MO 63130
Office	Jolley Hall, Room 303
Phone	(314) 935-4960
Fax	(314) 935-4014
Email	klj@wustl.edu
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Education

DSc, Washington University in St. Louis, 1974
MSc, Washington University in St. Louis, 1971
BSc, University of Illinois, 1969