Macromolecular Science
and Engineering Center

  • Alan Stuart Wineman
  • Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Macromolecular Science & Engineering Center
  • G042 Auto Lab, 1231 Beal Avenue
  • Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109

Short Biosketch

Alan Wineman holds a B.S.E. (1959) from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (1964) from Brown University. He joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1964. His Ph.D. was supervised by Allen C. Pipkin and addressed the incorporation of material symmetry into constitutive equations that account for large deformation, nonlinear time dependent response and dependence on non-mechanical variables such as temperature gradient, electric and magnetic field. He was a guest scientist in the polymers division, NIST in 1994 and a Visiting Scientific Scholar, NSF Institute for Mechanics and Materials,UCSD, 1996.

Awards/Honors

Current Research

Wineman’s research covers a variety of topics in the mechanics of polymeric solid and fluid materials: He has over 130 papers that fall roughly in to four categories, (1) large deformations of nonlinear time-dependent material response, (2) the interaction of this response with diffusion and electric fields, and (3) changes in molecular structure as a result of large deformations or high temperatures and the implications of these changes on mechanical response, (4) growth and mechanical property evolution in biomaterials.

His current research is on the development of a thermo-mechanical theory for elastomers undergoing oxidative scission and crosslinking at high temperatures. This is joint experimental and modeling work conducted in collaboration with Prof. John Shaw of aerospace engineering. Their work shows that the interaction of deformation and microstructural changes leads to permanent set, functionally graded anisotropy and stiffnesses and new mechanisms of failure.

Book

"Mechanical Response of Polymers" with K. R. Rajagopal, Cambridge University Press, April 2000

List of Recent and Top Cited Publications

  1. A. S. Wineman and Je-Hong Min, "Time Dependent Scission and Cross-Linking in an Elastomeric Cylinder Undergoing Circular Shear and Heat Conduction" International Journal of Non-linear Mechanics, 38, 969-983 (2003)
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  2. A. S. Wineman, K. Myers, "A Pressurized Spherical Elastomeric Membrane Undergoing Temperature Induced Scission and Cross-Linking" Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 8, 299-314 (2003)
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  3. A. S. Wineman, Markus Zimmermann, "On the Elastic Behavior of Scission materials" Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 10, 63-88 (2005)
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  4. A. S. Wineman. John A, Shaw, "A Correspondence Principle for Scission -Induced Stress Relaxation in Elastomeric Components" Journal of Applied Mechanics 71, 769-773 (2004)
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  5. A. S. Wineman and Je-Hong Min, "Inhomogeneity in a Sheared Elastomeric Layer as a Result of Thermally Induced Scission and Healing" Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 9, 17-35 (2004)
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  6. A. Wineman, John Shaw, A, Jones , "Chemorheological Response of Elastomers at Elevated Temperatures: Experiments and Simulations" Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 53, 2758-2793 (2005)
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  7. A. Wineman, John Shaw, "Influence of Thermally Induced Chemorheological Changes on the Inflation of Spherical Elastomeric Membranes" Journal of Elasticity 80, 73–95 (2005)
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  8. A. Wineman, John Shaw, "Influence of Thermally Induced Chemorheological Changes on the Torsion of Elastomeric Circular Cylinders" Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 17, 477–492 (2006)
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  9. Lakes, R. S. and A. Wineman, "On Poisson’s Ratio in Linearly Viscoelastic Solids" Journal of Elasticity 85, 45–63 (2006)
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  10. A. Jones, J. Shaw, A. Wineman, "An Experimental Facility to Measure the Chemorheologicgal Response of Inflated Elastomeric membranes at High Temperature" Experimental Mechanics 46, 579–587 (2006)
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