Dr. Thomas H. Fronk
Associate Professor
PhD 1991, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Phone: (435) 797-3893
EMAIL: thomas.fronk@usu.edu
Research Interests
Composite Structures
Classes Taught
MAE 2060
Material Science
MAE 5060
Mechanics of Composite Materials
MAE 5300 Vibrations
MAE 6040 Continuum Mechanics
MAE 6080 Boundary Element Method
MAE 6070 Mechanics of Composite Materials II
MAE 6090 Plates and Shells
Contact Information
Thomas H. Fronk
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Utah State University
Logan UT 84322-4130
Office Phone: (801) 797-3893
Fax: (801) 797-2417
e-mail: thfronk@mae.usu.edu
Selected Publications:
Venkata, M.K., Fronk, T.H., Finite Element Comparison of Laminated Shells
with Changing Radii, Proceedings of ICCE/9 Conference San Diego CA July 2002
Healy, R, Fronk, T.H, Impact Testing of Glass-Reinforced Nylon Rings, Proceedings of ICCE/9 Conference San Diego CA, July 2002
Fronk, T.H., M.K. Venkata, S. R. Fugal, Passive Damping of Laminated Composite Materials with Engineered Defects, Proceedings of SPIE Conference on Smart Structures and Materials 2002, pg. 43 Vol. 4697
Novascone, S.R., T.H. Fronk, The Effects of Manufactured Defects on the Axial Damping Characteristics of Composite Specimens, Proceedings of the ICCE/5 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1998
Astle J.D., T.H. Fronk, Report on Environmental Effects on Large Tow Composite Materials, prepared in cooperation with Alliant Tech Systems, 1998
Fronk, T.H., K.C. Womack, L.W. Finlinson, and K.J. Ellis, Finite Element
Modeling of Damping in Constrained Layer Composite Structures Induced by
Inplane Loads using ADINA, Computers and Structures, 47, June 1995.
Finlinson L.W., T.H. Fronk, and K.C. Womack, Effects of Lap Joints on Damping,
Strength, and Stiffness for Chevron Segmented Fibrous Composites, Materials for
Noise and Vibration Control, ASME Vol. 80, November 1994.
Fronk, T.H., Mahan, J.R., Fully-coupled Fluid-Structure Formulation of a
Baffled Rectangular Orthotropic Plates Using the Boundary Element and Finite
Element Methods, Boundary Element VII, 1992.
Jardaneh, I., T.H. Fronk, and L.R. Anderson, Developments and Shortcomings of
the Cap Model Implemented in the Finite Element Method for Modeling Geological
Materials, Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on Engineering Geology and
Geotechnical Engineering 1994.
Blotter, J., T.H. Fronk, and Piepenburg D., Closed Form Solution for Stress and
Displacement Around Circular Tunnels Under Axisymmetric Compression and Arbitrary
Dilatancy of the Surrounding Media, Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on
Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering 1993.
Jorgensen, B.R. and T.H. Fronk, Numerical Prediction of Shockwave Behavior in
Jointed Rock, Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on Engineering Geology and
Geotechnical Engineering 1994
