Daniel Post is an American engineer and was a professor at the
Virginia Tech.
Education
Post studied at the Pratt Institute of New York from 1947 to 1948, completing his BS at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1950.
He received his MS in 1951 and PhD in 1957 in
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Applied mechanics is the branch of science concerned with the motion of any substance that can be experienced or perceived by humans without the help of instruments. In short, when mechanics concepts surpass being theoretical and are applied and e ...
from the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He was co-advised by
Thomas J. Dolan and
Charles E. Taylor, being Taylor's first graduate student.
Research and career
Following his graduate studies, Post moved to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as an Adjunct Associate Professor, where he also held to the position of Associate Professor. He did work with
Francis G. Tatnall and
Vishay Intertechnology on the development of new
strain gauges
A strain gauge (also spelled strain gage) is a device used to measure Deformation (mechanics)#Strain, strain on an object. Invented by Edward E. Simmons and Arthur C. Ruge in 1938, the most common type of strain gauge consists of an Electrical in ...
. He developed a unique production method for foil-tyle strain gauges in 1963.
Throughout his career he consulted to government and industry. He was a professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1978 to 1991 when he retired and became professor emeritus.
He was one of the investigators on the 1969
Department of Defense Themis grant that served as the genesis of Virginia Tech's international leadership in composite and advanced materials.
In 1979 he invented a white light Moire interferometry technique
and later authored "High Sensitivity Moiré: Experimental Analysis for Mechanics and Materials", serving the major book on the topic of
Moiré Interferometry. Post was active in the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis (SESA) (later the
Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)) and was named the eighteenth Honorary Member of the society in 1999.
Awards and recognition
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Society for Experimental Mechanics Murray Lecture and Award (1971)
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Society for Experimental Mechanics Fellow (1977)
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Society for Experimental Mechanics Frocht Award (1988)
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Alumni Research Award (1989)
*Royal Society of London Award (1995)
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Society for Experimental Mechanics Honorary Member (1999)
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Society for Experimental Mechanics Taylor (2006)
References
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1929 births
Possibly living people
American engineers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Virginia Tech people
Fellows of the Society for Experimental Mechanics
20th-century American engineers