Dr. Mack Breazeale

Office: 1027 NCPA
Email: breazeal@olemiss.edu
Phone: (662) 915-7490

Degrees Earned

• A.B. , Berea College, Kentucky, 1953
• M. S. University of Missouri at Rolla, 1954
• Ph.D. Michigan State University, 1957

Experience

• Assistant Research Professor, Michigan State University, 1958
• Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, Stuttgart University, Germany, 1959
• Assistant Research Professor, Michigan State University, 1960-1961
• Associate Professor, The University of Tennessee, 1962-1967
• Professor, The University of Tennessee, 1967-1995, Emeritus, 1995
• Consultant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and 5 other Laboratories

Awards

• Fellow of Acoustical Society of America (1964)
• Fellow of Institute of Acoustics (Great Britain) (1980)
• Fellow of IEEE (1990); Life Fellow (2007)
• Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics
• President's Lecturer, IEEE
• Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE
• Pamiatkowy Medal, Polish Naval Academy
• Who's Who in America

Memberships

• Acoustical Society of America
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• Institute of Acoustics (Great Britain)
• American Physical Society
• American Association of University Professors
• Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, Sigma Pi Sigma

Research Interests

Recently it has been possible to go beyond linear elasticity and to make a more accurate description of elastic effects. One of the principal means of nonlinearity evaluation is acoustical. The International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics now is emphasizing the nonlinear acoustics of solids, so results on solids are very important. This means that now it is important to measure third order elastic constants of solids. Bragg diffraction of laser light by ultrasonic waves is studied because, unlike Bragg diffraction of x-rays, Bragg imaging of ultrasonic waves is possible. Optical schlieren images are useful in the study of ultrasonic waves and their diffraction. Ultrasonic wave attenuation measurements are producing useful results.

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