James W. Foulk III

EDUCATION

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sandia National Laboratories (Livermore, CA)                  Senior Member of Technical Staff
 August ‘99 - Present
Sandia National Labs (Albuquerque, NM)                        Ph.D. Student Intern
 October ‘98 – July ‘99
Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group (Seattle, WA)             Structural Engineer
 December ‘96 – September ‘98
Center for Mechanics of Composites at Texas A&M        Graduate Assistant Researcher
 Spring ‘95 – Fall ‘96
Sikorsky Aircraft – Composite R&D (Stratford, CT)        Composite Technician
 Fall ‘92, Summer ‘93 – Fall ‘93
 
 
 

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES	HARDWARE / SOFTWARE
Member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Officer and Member of Sigma Gamma Tau (AERO) Officer and Member of AIAA, Member of ASME Texas Engineering Experimental Station Fellow	OS:  UNIX, Windows Language:  Fortran, C++, HTML FEM:  Sierra, Tahoe, Seacas, Abaqus Pre/Post FEM:  Cubit, Patran, Ensight

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Foulk, J.W., Helms, K.L.E., and D.H. Allen, "Computational Finite Element Analysis for Predicting the Effects of Environmental Degradation on Life in Metal Matrix Composites,” Damage and Interfacial Debonding in Composites, Studies in Applied Mechanics, Vol. 44, Elsevier, New York, pp. 29-44, 1996
• Allen, D.H., Foulk, J.W., Helms, K.L.E., and D.C. Lagoudas, "A Model for Predicting the Effect of Environmental Degradation on Damage Evolution of Metal Matrix Composites,” Applications of Continuum Damage Mechanics to Fatigue and Fracture, MacDowell, D.L., Ed., ASTM STP, No. 1315, pp. 29-45, 1998.
• Foulk, J.W., Allen, D.H., and K.L.E. Helms, "A Model for Predicting the Damage and Oxidation Dependent Life of SCS-6/TI-21S [0]4 Metal Matrix Composite,” Mechanics of Materials, Vol. 29, pp. 53-68, 1998.
• Foulk, J.W., Allen, D.H., and K.L.E. Helms, “Formulation of a Three Dimensional Cohesive Zone Model for Application to a Finite Element Algorithm,”  Computational Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol.  183:1, pp. 51-66, 2000.
• Klein, P.A., Foulk, J.W., Chen, E.P., Wimmer, S.A., and H.J. Gao, Physics-based modeling of brittle fracture: cohesive formulations and the application to meshfree methods, Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics 37, pp. 99-166, 2001
• Hill, J.C., Bennison, S.J., Klein, P.A., Foulk, J.W., Jagota, A., and S. Saigal, Co-planar crack interaction in cleaved mica, submitted to International Journal of Fracture, 2002.

THESIS

• Foulk, J.W., "A Model for Predicting the Damage and Oxidation Dependent Life of  SCS-6/Ti-Beta21S Metal Matrix Composite,” Texas A&M University, May, 1997.

CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

• Allen, D.H., and J.W. Foulk, “A Micromechanical Model for Predicting Environmentally Assisted Crack Growth in Continuous Fiber Metal Matrix Composites,”  ASME Summer Mechanics and Materials Conference, Baltimore, 1996.
• Allen, D.H., Foulk, J.W., and K.L.E. Helms, “Prediction of Damage Evolution in Continuous Fiber Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Fatigue Loading,” 1996 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Atlanta, 1996.
• Allen, D.H., Foulk, J.W., and K.L.E. Helms, “Observation and Prediction of Damage Evolution in Continuous Fiber Titanium Matrix Composites,” 1997 IMECE, Dallas, 1997.
• Foulk, J.W., Helms, K.L.E., and D.H. Allen, “Life Prediction in Continuous Fiber Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Environmental Degradation,” 11th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites, Atlanta, 1996.
• Foulk, J.W., Allen, D.H., and D.C. Lagoudas, “A Micromechanical Model for Predicting Fatigue Response of Metal Matrix Composites Subjected to Environmental Degradation,” IUTAM Symposium on Transformations in Composites, Cairo, Egypt, 1997.
• Foulk, J.W., and D.H. Allen, “Predicting Time-Dependent Interfacial Behavior with a Viscoelastic Cohesive Zone Model,” Proceedings of ICES’2K, Los Angeles, 2000.
• Foulk, J.W., Klein, P.A., Chen, E.P., and J.C. Hill , “A three-dimensional validation of crack curvature in muscovite mica,” IACMAG 10, Tuscon, 2001.
• Foulk, J.W., Klein, P.A., and E.P. Chen, “Pathological mesh dependence in the cohesive simulation of fracture,” USACM, Detroit, 2001.
• Foulk, J.W., Ortega, A.R., Chiesa, M.L., Bammann, D.J., Gartling, D.K., and A.A. Brown, “Challenges in modeling the resistance welding process,” 39th Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, State College, 2002.
• Ortega, A.R., Foulk, J.W., Chiesa, M.L, and D.K. Gartling, “Development of validated resistance weld modeling tools,” Proceedings of 6th ASME-JSME Thermal Engineering Joint Conference, Hawaii, 2003.