Allan Bower
Professor:
Engineering
Phone: +1 401 863 1493
Allan_Bower@Brown.EDU
Professor Bower is a member of the Solid Mechanics group in the Division of Engineering. He works with colleagues and students to develop and apply computer simulations to model the mechanical properties of materials. Applications of current interest include lightweight materials and engineered surfaces for automotive and aerospace applications, as well as microelectronic materials.
Biography
Professor Bower was educated at the University of Cambridge, and was a University Lecturer in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge before joining Brown as an assistant professor in 1991. He currently serves as co-director (with Dr. Mark Verbrugge of GM) of the Brown/General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory in Computational Materials Research. He is also the author of a (free) electronic solid mechanics textbook published at http://solidmechanics.org/
Interests
Current research projects include:
Development of engineered surfaces and lightweight materials for automotive applications;
Modeling stress and electromigration induced failures in microelectronic circuits;
Modeling stress evolution during deposition of polycrystalline metallic and nonmetallic films.
Degrees
B.A, M.A, Ph.D.
Awards
Institute of Mechanical Engineers Thomas Stephen Prize
Institute of Mechanical Engineers Bronze Tribology Medal
ASME Tribology Division Best Paper Award
Philip J. Bray Teaching Award
Institution
University of Cambridge
Affiliations
American Academy of Mechanics
Teaching
Professor Bower teaches undergraduate courses in mechanical engineering and graduate courses in applied mechanics. Previous courses are listed below, with web addresses for electronic texts where available.
Professor Bower has also published a general advanced level solid mechanics textbook at http://solidmechanics.org/
Past Undergraduate Courses
- EN3: Introduction to Engineering http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en3
- EN4: Introduction to Dynamics and Vibrations http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en4
- EN31: Introduction to Mechanics of Solids
- EN137: Advanced Engineering Mechanics
- EN175: Advanced Mechanics of Solids http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en175
Past Graduate courses
- EN222: Mechanics of Solids II http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en222
- EN224: Linear Elasticity http://www.engin.brown.edu/courses/en224
- EN229: Plasticity
- EN292: Mechanics of Contact and Friction
