John Gillespie

John W. Gillespie Jr.
Ph.D, University of Delaware
Donald C. Phillips Professor

Office:	201C Composites Manufacturing Lab
Phone:	(302) 831-8702
Fax:	(302) 831-8525
Email:	gillespi@udel.edu
Curriculum Vitae:	pdf
Web Page:	http://www.ccm.udel.edu/Personnel/homepage/Gillespie.html

[ Short Bio | Education | Awards | Select Publications ]

Short Bio

Research Interests:
Composite materials, mechanics and design, experimental mechanics, fracture mechanics, fabrication, infrastructure applications of composites

Education

1985: Ph.D, University of Delaware
1978: Master, University of Delaware
1976: Bachelor, University of Delaware

Honors and Awards

2009 ASC Outstanding Research Award: Quoting the Society guidelines, 2009
Distinguished Career Alumni Award: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, May 1, 2009.
2008, Most Cited Author 2005 – 2008 Award: International Journal of Solids and Structures.
Best Paper Award: 1st Place SAMPE 2005 Symposium & Exhibition (50th ISSE), Long Beach, CA, May 1-5, 2005.
2004 American Composites Manufacturing Association Best of Show Award: November, 2004
Space Act Award: NASA Tech Briefs Magazine, September 2002.
Faculty Advisors Award: Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, 2001.
J. H. "Jud" Hall Composites Manufacturing Award: Composites Manufacturing Association, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2000 Award recognizing outstanding contributions to the advancement of composites manufacturing.
ASCE Delaware Section Project of the Year Award: February, 1999
Paul A. Siple Memorial Award: 21st Army Science Conference, Science and Technology for Army After Next, Norfolk, VA, June 15-17, 1998 recognizes best basic research contributions in U.S. Army.
Best Paper Award: Society of Plastics Engineers, 1998.
Best Paper in the Body/Fuselage session: 10th Annual ASM/ESD Advanced Composites Conference, November 7-10, 1994.
Best Paper in Track: 10th Annual ASM/ESD Advanced Composites Conference and Exposition, 1994.
Best Presentation: ASTM STP on Compression Response of Composite Structures, November 1992.
Best Advanced Composites Paper: 45th Annual Conference of the Composites Institute (SPI), February 1990.

Select Publications

Gillespie, J. W. Jr. and Hoa, S., Editors, Proceedings of the 24th Annual Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites, 2009.

Advani, S. G. and J. W. Gillespie, Jr., Editors, (Volume 9 in the TexComp Series) Proceedings of TEXCOMP9: Recent Advances in Textile Composites, 2008.

Gillespie, J. W. Jr., (contributing author and Chair), High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer Matrix Composites, National Materials Advisory Board, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 2005.

Gillespie, J. W. Jr. (contributing author), "An Assessment of the U.S. Army's Manufacturing Technology Program Relative to the Needs of the Future Combat Systems Program in Final
Report of the Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) Critical Technologies: Industry ManTech Independent Assessment Panel, National Center for Advanced Technologies, Washington, D.C., Report Number 01-MT2A, July 2002.

Tierney, J. J., J. W. Gillespie Jr., and P-E. Bourban, "Joining of Composites," Chapter in Volume 2, Polymer-Matrix Composites, Comprehensive Composite Materials, Pergamon, Elsevier Science Limited, 2001.

Benatar, A., K. T. Kedward, and J. W. Gillespie, Jr., "Joining of Composites," Chapter 12 in Advanced Composites Manufacturing, Editor: T. G. Gutowski, John Wiley&Sons Publishers, pp. 487-512, 1997.

Gillespie, J. W. Jr., contributing author, New Materials for Next-Generation Commercial Transports, National Research Council, Publication NMAB-476, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1996.

Hansen, U. and J. W. Gillespie Jr., "Transverse Cracking of Composite Laminates with Interleaves: A Variational Approach," Fracture of Composites, E. Armanios (ed.), TransTec Publications, Ltd., Switzerland, pp. 521-548, 1996.

Advani, S. G. and J. W. Gillespie, Jr., Editors, Proceedings of CADCOMP 92: Third International Conference on Computer Aided Design in Composite Material Technology, 1992.

Carlsson, L. A., J. W. Gillespie Jr., and K. Friedrich, "Fracture of Thermoplastic Composites," Thermoplastic Composite Materials, L. A. Carlsson (volume ed.), Elsevier Book Series on
Composite Materials, R. B. Pipes (series ed.) Elsevier Science Publishers, 1990.

Gillespie, J. W. Jr., Series Editor, Delaware Composites Design Encyclopedia, Volumes 1-6, Technomic Publishing Company, Inc., Lancaster, PA, 1990.

Gillespie, J. W. Jr., and L. A. Carlsson, "Interlaminar Fracture of Composite Materials," Vol. 6, Delaware Composites Design Encyclopedia, Technomic Publishing Company, Inc., Lancaster, PA, 1990.

L. A. Carlsson, and J. W. Gillespie Jr., "Mode II Interlaminar Fracture," Application of Fracture Mechanics to Composite Materials, Volume Editor: K. Friedrich, Elsevier Book Series on
Composite Materials, Series Editor: R. B. Pipes, Elsevier Science Publishers, 1989.

	Highlights
Jack Puleo has won the NSF Early Career Development Award Jack Puleo, assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award to study swash zone sediment transport. The swash zone is the area near the shoreline where waves wash up and down the beach face. The five-year $444,229 award is aimed at developing a broader understanding of the physics of coastal sediment transport in this area, thereby leading to significant improvement in the ability to predict such coastal phenomena as beach erosion and beach nourishment performance. \|read more\|