Prof. Dr. Joseph A. Turner

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsMechanics,Acoustics,Materials Engineering
Keywordsnanotechnology, Material Science and non-destructive testing, Engineering Mechanics, nanoindentation, atomic force microscopy

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityLincoln
InstitutionUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln
InstituteMechanical and Materials Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Walter ArnoldMax-Planck-Inst. f. Informatik IzfP, Fraunhofer-Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (IZFP), Saarbrücken
Dr. G. DobmannMax-Planck-Inst. f. Informatik IzfP, Fraunhofer-Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren (IZFP), Saarbrücken
Prof. Dr. Konrad SamwerI. Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/1996

Programme(s)

1995Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2013Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Turner is well-known for his pioneering work in quantitative ultrasonic characterisation to study the local and global mechanical properties of very different materials. His research encompasses ultrasonic scattering to characterize the microstructure of materials. Professor Turner described the diffusion of elastic waves in the strong scattering regime and developed dynamic methods in atomic force microscope and in nanoindentation to map the elastic and the anelastic behavior of heterogeneous materials with nanometer resolution.