Professor Herzl Chai School of Mechanical Engineering The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering Tel Aviv University Ramat Aviv 69978 ISRAEL Phone: +972-3-6408342 e-mail: herzl@eng.tau.ac.il

Academic and Professional Experience

• 1976-1981 – Ph.D, California Institute of Technology.
• 1982- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology.
• 1983-1987 Visiting Scientist, Materials Laboratory, Mechanics and Surface Interaction Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, USA.
• 1988 Research Fellow, Division of Materials Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1989-1992 Staff Scientist, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
• 1992-present – School of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
• 2005-2006 Visiting Associate, Ceramics Division, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
• 2006-2008 Visiting Associate, Graduate Aeronautical Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.

Research Interests:

• Experimental and analytical aspects of solid mechanics, with special emphasis on the deformation and fracture of biological structures, composite materials, and adhesively bonded joints.

Current Projects:

• Fracture characteristics of thin-bondline adhesive joints and laminated composites under mode I, mode II and mode III loading.
• Contact buckling and postbuckling behavior of plate structures, with special emphasis on delamination in laminated composites.
• Application of moire interferometry to stress concentration problems.
• Indentation fracture in ceramic multilayers.
• Micromechanics of dental fracture.
• Fracture of biological structures

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