Thomas G. Carley


Thomas G. Carley
Professor and Associate Department Head
Thomas G. Carley
408 Dougherty Hall
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37966-2210
Office : (423) 974-7600
Fax : (423) 974-5274
email : jerry-carley@utk.edu

Teaching

  Dynamics and Vibrations
Machine Design I ME365
Stress Analysis
Engineering Acoustics

Education

Ph.D 1965, University of Illinois
MS 1961, Lousiana State University
BS 1958, Lousiana State University

Research

  Structural Mechanics
Machinery Dynamics
Mechanical/Structural Vibrations


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Dynamic simulation of mechanical and structural systems. Finite Element structural dynamics and mechanical vibrations. Machine dynamics.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1998 - Present Professor and Associate Department Head, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science Department
1995 - 1998 Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Science Department, Engineering Science Program Director, University of Tennessee.
1992 - 1995 Acting Department Head of Engineering Science and Mechanics, University of Tennessee.
1968 - 1995 Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, University of Tennessee.
1966 - 1968 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas.
1965 - 1966 Research Engineer, The Boeing Company, Huntsville, Alabama.
Summers of:
1974 - 1991 Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
1967 Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
1964 A.R.O. Inc., Tullahoma, Tennessee.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

ASME, ASEE, American Academy of Mechanics

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Aramayo, G.A., Carley, T.G., and Jones, W.D., "Development of Site-Specific Accelerations for Safety Assesment of DOE Facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennessee," Third DOE Natural Phenomena Hazards Mitigation Conference, St. Louis, MO, 1991.

Carley, T.G., "The Mechanics of Large Deflection Post-Buckling Behavior and Inelastic Energy Dissipation in Cylindrical Shipping Containers Dropped on One Edge," Proceedings of ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, Nashville, TN, June 1990.

Johnson, R.O., Stoneking, J.E., and Carley, T.G., "The Stability of Simply Supported Tubes Conveying a Compressible Fluid," Journal of Sound and Vibration, 117 (2), 1987.

Carley, T.G., and Stoneking, J.E., "Dynamic Modeling of Robotic Slave Arms," Proceedings of 12th Southeastern Conference on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, May 1984.

Boulet, J.A.M., and Carley, T.G., "Response Spectrum Analysis of Coupled Structural Response to a Three Component Seismic Disturbance," Proceedings of the 4th Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology Conference, San Francisco, CA, August 1977.

Carley, T.G., "Cooling Tower Noise in Nuclear Power Parks," Proceedings of the Sixth Environmental Engineering and Science Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 1977.

Carley, T.G., and Langhaar, H.L., "Transverse Shear Stresses in Rectangular Plates," Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, Proceedings A.S.C.E., 94, No. EM1, February, 1968.


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