Prof. David Roylance

CONTACT INFORMATION

Phone: 617-253-3309
Fax: 617-258-6275
email: roylance@mit.edu

EDUCATION

• 1964 BSME, Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah
• 1968 Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah

EXPERIENCE

• 1968-70: Captain, U.S. Army Ordnance Corps. Service at the Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center and the U.S. Army Engineer Command, Vietnam.
• 1970-74: Group Leader, Organic Materials Laboratory, Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center.
• 1975-2011: Associate Professor of Materials Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• 2011 - present: Associate Professor Emeritus of Materials Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

RESEARCH INTERESTS - polymers and composites engineering

• Physics of fracture in oriented polymers
• Biomedical applications of polymers
• Environmental degradation of polymers and composites
• Numerical analysis of reactive polymer processing
• Impact and wave propagation in textile structures
• Thermomechanical damage in elastomers
• Polymer viscoelasticity
• Finite element analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• D. Roylance, "Assessment of Olefin-Based IUD Tail Strings," Journal of Applied Biomaterials, Vol. 4 pp. 289-301 (1993).
• D. Roylance, P. Chammas, J. Ting, H. Chi and B. Scott, "Numerical Modeling of Fabric Impact," Procedings of the National Meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), San Francisco, October 1995.
• D. Roylance, Mechanics of Materials, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996.
• D. Roylance, C. Jenkins and G. Dieter, "The Materials-Mechanics Linkage in the Engineering Curriculum," Journal of Materials Education, Vol. 21, pp. 145-148, 1999.
• D. Roylance, Modules in Mechanics of Materials, A web-based collection of educational modules developed under the auspices of the National Science Foundation.
• J. Player, M. Roylance, W. Zukas and D. Roylance, "Modeling of Ultrasonic Processing," Journal of Applied Polymer Science, Vol. 93, pp. 1609-1615, 2004.