Horacio Sosa, Ph.D.
Horacio Sosa, Ph.D.
Horacio Sosa, Ph.D.
Professor
Biography
Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Certificate, Executive Administration, Wharton School-University of Pennsylvania
Research Expertise:
Mechanics of electromagnetic materials, defect mechanics of piezoelectric ceramics
Honors and Awards:
Doctoral Fellowship, Argentina’s National Commission for Atomic Energy
NSF Research Initiation Award
Sabbatical Fellowship, Ministry of Education of Spain
NATO’s Collaborative Research Council Fellowship
FULBRIGHT Fellowship
Drexel University USGA Students Choice Award
Drexel University Torrance Institute Creativity Award
Gloucester County Board of Chose Freeholders
Gloucester County Chamber of Commerce
Visiting Positions:
Department of Materials Processing, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Institute for Research and Technology, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain
Department of Physics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
College of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina
Selected Publications:
Sosa, H. “Piezothermoelasticity: fundamental equations”. Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, edited by R. Hetnarsky. Springer, pp. 3888-3898, 2014.
Perez-Aparicio, J. L., Sosa, H. & Palma, R. “Numerical investigations of field-defect interactions in piezoelectric ceramics”. International Journal of Solids and Structures. Vol. 44, pp. 4892-4908, 2007.
Sosa, H. & Khutoryansky, N. “Further analysis of the transient dynamic response of piezoelectric bodies subjected to electric impulses,” International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 38, pp. 2101-2114, 2000.
Shindo, Y., Narita, F. & Sosa, H. “Electroelastic analysis of piezoelectric ceramics with surface electrodes,” International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 36, pp. 1001-1009, 1998.
Sosa, H. & Castro, M. “On concentrated loads at the boundary of a piezoelectric half-plane,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 1105-1122, 1994.