Rodney Hill (∗June 21, 1921, in Stourton near Leeds, Yorkshire, UK; †February 2, 2011, in Cambridge, UK) was an engineer and applied mathematician.
Education
Rodney Hill’s father was a history teacher, and his mother had studied at Leeds School of Art. In 1938, he won a scholarship to read mathematics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where now Egon Orowan was teaching. He graduated BA with first-class honors in 1942. He solved various metal-forming problems and obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled “Theoretical Studies of the Plastic Deformation of Metals” in 1948.
Professional Career
In 1943, amid World War II, he joined a theoretical group on armaments led by Nevill Francis Mott at Fort Halstead, near Sevenoaks, Kent, to carry out theoretical research on armaments and advise military designers on problems to do with the behavior of explosives, fragmentation bombs, the attack and defense of tanks, etc. In the spring of 1943, Mott assembled a team of...
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Hill R (1948) A theory of the yielding and plastic flow of anisotropic metals. Proc R Soc Lond A 193(1033):281–297. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1948.0045
Hill R (1950) The mathematical theory of plasticity. Clarendon Press, Oxford
Hill R (1978) Aspects of invariance in solid mechanics. Adv Appl Mech 18:1–75
Hill R, Hutchinson JW (1975) Bifurcation phenomena in the plane tension test. J Mech Phys Solids 23(4–5):239–264. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5096(75)90027-7
Hill R, Rice JR (1972) Constitutive analysis of elastic-plastic crystals at arbitrary strain. J Mech Phys Solids 20(6):401–413. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-5096(72)90017-8
Hill R, Rice JR (1973) Elastic potentials and the structure of inelastic constitutive laws. SIAM J Appl Math 25(3):448–461. https://doi.org/10.1137/0125045
Hill R, Rice JR (1987) Discussion: a rate-independent constitutive theory for finite inelastic deformation (Carroll MM (1987) J Appl Mech 54:15–21). J Appl Mech 54(3):745–747
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von Mises R (1928) Mechanik der plastischen Formänderung von Kristallen. ZAMM – J Appl Math Mech/Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik 8(3):161–185. https://doi.org/10.1002/zamm.19280080302
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Altenbach, H., Bruhns, O.T. (2018). Hill, Rodney. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_314-1
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