Mark Tuttle - Professor
Chair
- Discussion of the Stirling Engine
- Available Here
Mechanics of Materials & Manufacturing
Contact Information
Phone: 206-685-6665Fax: 206-685-8047
Email: tuttle@u.washington.edu
Biography
Professor Tuttle became chair of the ME Department in August 2004. He also serves as director of the FAA-sponsored center on Advanced Materials in Transport Aircraft Structures (AMTAS).Professor Tuttle's interests involve applied solid mechanics, viscoelasticity, composite materials, and adhesion mechanics. He wrote a series of computer programs used to study composite materials and structures that are available HERE. Professor Tuttle's research activities have included measurement and prediction of the long-term durability of polymer-matrix composites; the buckling response of composite laminates; the impact of fire on polymeric composites; the optimal design of composite structures; ultra-high strain measurement techniques; creep strain measurements using moire interferometry, and resistance foil strain gage technologies.
Professor Tuttle is a Past-President of the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM). An article published in the SEM journal EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES (Vol. 21, No. 5, pp 19-22) describes the use of linear gratings produced using a laser printer. A program which can be used to produce these gratings is available here.
