Bio

Following his undergraduate studies in Japan and France, Dr. Yasuyuki Horie completed graduate studies in the US at Yale University and Washington State University in 1966. He began his academic career as a visiting instructor in Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland and subsequently in Mathematics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England. In 1969 he joined NC State University and became a professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and later in the Department of Civil Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, served as Vice President of the International Shock Wave Institute, member of the National Defense Industry Association. and Co-Chief-Editor, Shock Wave Science and Technology Reference Library, Springer-Verlag.

Dr. Horie has more than 40 years of experience in the area of high-pressure shock compression of condensed matter with focus principally on thermo-chemical behavior of both inert and energetic materials. He has pioneered the development of models for shock-induced phase transition and a statistical burn model of explosives, as well as a discrete element method for granular media. Dr. Horie has published and edited a dozen books and more than 120 refereed journal and proceedings papers. He is also known for his work on the shock synthesis of refractory compounds and ceramic composites such as nickel aluminides and diamond/TiC composites. He holds a patent on the latter.

Dr. Horie has served on various technical committees and professional societies and has promoted international research collaboration. When assigned through the Intergovernmental Personnel Act to work at the Army Research Office, in the Research Triangle Park, he assisted and advised associated directors in the Engineering Science Division on technical and programmatic issues regarding idea generation, long-term and research needs, and innovation in basic research.

Following his retirement from NC State in 1999, he served on the technical staff of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. From 2005 through 2012, Dr Horie, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, was the Senior Scientist, Energetic Materials, Munitions Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. He assisted and advised the Munitions Directorate in establishing a critical long-range science and technology research vision in support of the AFRL and Air Force goals.

Area(s) of Expertise

High-pressure shock compression of condensed matter with focus principally on thermo-chemical behavior of both inert and energetic materials.

Publications

• Discrete element modeling of shock compression of hexagonal boron nitride powder with and without copper addition , Journal of Materials Processing Technology (1999)
• Discrete-element modeling of shock compression of polycrystalline copper , Physical review. B, Condensed matter (1999)
• A numerical study of shock-induced particle velocity dispersion in solid mixtures , Journal of Applied Physics (1998)
• Discrete element investigation of stress fluctuation in granular flow at high strain rates , Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics (1998)
• Discrete meso-dynamic simulation of thermal explosion in shear bands , Journal of Applied Physics (1998)
• Shock-Wave Initiation of Chemical Reactions in Inorganic Powders. , The Review of High Pressure Science and Technology (1998)
• The behavior of SIMCON under ballistic loading: An analytical study , Engineering mechanics: Proceedings of the 12th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference: A Force for the 21st Century, La Jolla, CA, May 17-20, 1998 (1998)
• A new computer code DM2: Discrete meso-dynamic modeling of shock processes in solids , New models and numerical dodes for shock wave processes in condensed media: Proceedings of the International Workshop held at Oxford, 15-19 September 1997 (1997)
• Discrete element modeling of shock compression of hBN powder with and without copper addition , Proceedings of the International Workshop on Industrial Applications of Explosion, Shock-Wave and High Pressure Phenomena. Kumamoto, October 1997 (1997)
• Discrete meso-element simulation of chemical reactions in shear bands , Proceedings of the Conference of the American Physical Society Topical Conference on Shock Compression of Condensed Matter held at Amherst, Massachusetts, July 27-August 1, 1997 (1997)

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