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Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs

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Contact Information

• Office: 152 Mechanical Engineering Building
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  152 Mechanical Engineering Building
  1206 West Green Street
  Urbana, IL 61801

• Phone: 217-333-4388
• Fax: 217-244-6534
• Email: jwp AT uiuc.edu

Research Description

Professor Phillips has conducted research in the area of biomechanics, publishing one of the first studies on the aging effect in silicone-gel breast implants. He developed a simple but effective load cell for measuring the axial force and twisting moment in wire ropes, such as those used in deep-shaft mines. He also used the then newly-developed pulsed-ruby laser in a photoelastic analysis of mechanical pulse propagation in curved beams.

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