Professor Emeritus
Structural Engineering & Structural Mechanics
Education:
- Dr.-Ing. habil. degree, 1980, University of Stuttgart, Germany (Prof. John H. Argyris).
- Habilitation: Finite Element Discretization of Quasistatic Problems in Space and Time (in german).
- Ph.D. degree, 1969, University of California Berkeley, California (Prof. Alex S. Scordelis).
- Dissertation: Finite Element Analysis of Cellular Structures.
M.S. degree, 1966, California State University San Jose, California (Prof. William Lorell). - M.S. Thesis: An Experimental Study of Combined Torsion and Bending in Reinforced Concrete
Beams. - Dipl.-Ing. degree, 1964, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
Honors and Distinctions:
- Member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE Class of 2004).
- Nathan M. Newmark Medal Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, ASCE, 2003.
- Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, F. ASCE, 2001.
- Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, F. ASME, 1999.
- AvH Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Research Award, Bonn, Germany, 1998.
Professional Affiliations:
- National Academy of Engineering, NAE
- American Society of Civil Engineering, ASCE
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME
- American Concrete Institute, ACI
- Gesellschaft f¨ur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, GAMM
- American Academy of Mechanics, AAM
- US Association of Computational Mechanics, USACM
- Intl. Association for Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Materials and Structures, IAFraMCoS
Interests:
- Computational Failure Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Interface Modeling.
- Mechanics of Materials, Plasticity, Elastic Damage, Poromechanics, Thermohydromechanics.
- Localization Analysis of Cohesive-Frictional Materials, Thermal Degradation of Concrete Materials, Seismic Response of Masonry Infill Walls.