James Knowles received his S.B. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received the following awards: Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, MIT (1955), Award of the Associated Students of Caltech for Excellence in Teaching (1984, 1985), Award of the Caltech Graduate Student Council for Exceptional Teaching (1993), Fellow, American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, President of the American Academy of Mechanics, 1985-86, Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science (1991).
R. Abeyaratne and J.K. Knowles, A continuum model of a thermoelastic solid capable of undergoing phase transitions, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 41 (1993) pp. 541-571.
R. Abeyaratne and J.K. Knowles, Dynamics of propagating phase boundaries: Adiabatic theory for thermoelastic solids, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 79 (1994) pp. 269-288.
J.K. Knowles, Dynamics of thermoelastic phase transitions, International Journal of Solids and Structures 32 (1995) pp. 2703-2710.
Q. Jiang and J.K. Knowles, A thermoelastic model for an experiment involving a solid-solid phase transition, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 4 (1995) pp. 97-110.
J.K. Knowles, N.A. Winfree and T.J. Ahrens, Effect of solid-solid phase changes on impact mechanics, Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Shock Waves (B. Sturtevant, J. Shepherd and H. Hornung, editors), pp. 1449-1454, World Scientific Publishers, Singapore 1996.
R. Abeyaratne and J.K. Knowles, Impact-induced phase transitions in thermoelastic solids, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 355 (1997) pp. 1 -25.
R. Abeyaratne and J.K. Knowles, On the kinetics of an austenite-martensite phase transformation induced by impact in a Cu-Al-Ni shape-memory alloy, Acta Materialia 45 (1997) pp. 1671-1683.
J.K. Knowles, N.A. Winfree and T.J. Ahrens, Dynamically induced phase transitions and the modeling of comminution in brittle solids, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 2 (1997) pp. 99-116.
J.K. Knowles, Saint-Venant’s principle: A challenge from
fracture mechanics, Proceedings of the Symposium Honoring
the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of A. J.-C. B. de
Saint-Venant, (G. Grioli, editor), pp. 56-69, Accademia
Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 1997.