Igor Emri

Professor Igor Emri is a Chairman of the Department of Mechanics of Polymers and Composites at the University of Ljubljana. He received his bachelor degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Ljubljana. His graduate studies he completed at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and the California Institute of Technology, USA. He is author of over hundred scientific publications, and lectured extensively at scientific meetings and universities as invited speaker. His research interest covers mainly the mechanical characterization of viscoelastic materials in particular thermoplastic polymers and polymer-based composites, with a strong emphasis on experimental investigations. Professor Emri is an active member of several professional societies. Together with Prof. W.G. Knauss, California Institute of Technology, USA, he founded the Technical	Professor Igor Emri
Division for Time Dependent Materials of The Society for Experimental Mechanics. He is also an Editor-in-Chief (together with W.G. Knauss) of the International Journal: Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dr. Emri is one of the principle organizes of the International Conference on Mechanics of Time Dependent Materials, organized every second year. In 1995 he was elected as a Member of the SEM Executive Board, and remained on the Board for seven years, until 2002. During this period he served as a Vice-President, President-Elect, and in 1999-2002 as a President of the Society. Professor Emri is a Head of the SEM European Office, and a founder and the Secretary of the Central European Section of The Society for Experimental Mechanics. Since 1996 Dr. Emri is a Full Member (Fellow) of the International Academy of Engineering and Member of the Presidency of the International Academy of Engineering (former Engineering Academy of USSR) and a Full Member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering. In 1996 he was elected as a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Mechanics. In 1997 he received the "Kapitsa Medal" from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS) for his contribution to understanding of the non-linear viscoelastic behavior of polymers and composites. At the same year he became a foreign member of the RANS. In 2000 he was appointed as a Visiting Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena USA. In 2001 he received the prestigious national recognition - the Ambassador of Science of the Republic of Slovenia. Phone: + 386 1 4771 661 Fax: + 386 1 4771 670 Email: igoremri@caltech.edu Selected publications from over 100 publications in journals, books and proceedings: Generating line spectra from experimental responses. Part IV, Application to experimental data. Rheol. Acta, 1994, Vol.. 33, No. 1, pp. 60-70. Determination of Mechanical Spectra from Experimental Responses. Int. j. solids struct. [Print ed.], 1995, Vol. 32, No. 6/7, pp. 817-826. - Expert system for testing mechanical properties of aluminium and aluminium alloys. Expert syst. appl.. [Print ed.], 1997, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 473-482. Generating line spectra from experimental responses. Part V, Time-dependent viscosity. Rheol. Acta, 1997, Vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 303-306. Analysis of transient waves in thin structures utilizing matched asymptotic expansions. Acta Mech., 2001, No. 149/1-4, pp. 55-68. Proton spin-lattice relaxation study of the hydration of self-stressed expansive cement. Cem. concr. res., 2001, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 263-269. An apparatus for measuring the effect of pressure on the time-dependent properties of polymers. J. rheol. (N.Y. N.Y.), 2001, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 929-943. Poisson's ratio in linear viscoelasticity - a critical review. Mech. time-depend. mater., 2002, Vol. 6, No. 1,pp.3-51. The effect of temperature and pressure on the mechanical properties of thermo- and/or piezorheologically simple polymeric materials in thermodynamic equilibrium - a critical review. Mech. time-depend. mater., 2002, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 53-99. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Two-Dimensional Polymer Melt, Polymer Science, Ser. A, Vol. 44, No. 7, 2002.