NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSYS

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THOMAS J.R. HUGHES

Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III The University of Texas at Austin

Previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University. He is the author of over 300 works on numerical analysis and continuum mechanics, with emphasis on finite element methods. Author or editor of eighteen books, including The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis and Computational Inelasticity . He has received the Bernard Friedman Memorial Prize in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, the Walter L. Huber Research Prize from the ASCE, the Melville, Warner and Timoshenko Medals from ASME, the Computational Mechanics Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the von Neumann Medal of USACM, the Gauss-Newton Medal of IACM, the JSCES Grand Prize from the Japan Society of Computational Engineering and Science, and Honorary Doctorates from the Université Catholique de Louvain, and the Universities of Pavia and Padua. He has held the Cattedra Galileiana (Galileo Galilei Chair), Scuola Normale, Pisa, and Eshbach Professorship, Northwestern University. He is editor of the International Journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, past Chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME, past President of USACM and of IACM, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Istituto Lombardo, the Academy of Medecine, Engineering and Science of Texas, and the National Academy of Engineering.

TED BELYTSCHKO

Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computational Mechanics, Northwestern University

He is the author of over 300 works on a wide variety of applied mechanics problems, with emphasis on explicit finite element methods. Editor of seven books, including: Computational Methods for Transient Analysis (with T.J.R. Hughes). He is author of the recent book Nonlinear Finite Elements for Continua and Structures. He is editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. He has received the Timoshenko and Pi Tau Sigma Medals from ASME, the USACM von Neumann Medal and Computational Structural Mechanics Award, the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM, the von Karman Medal, the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award and the Walter L. Huber Research Prize from ASCE, the Thomas Jaeger Prize from IASMIRT, the Computational Mechanics Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the IACM Computational Mechanics Award, the Baron Medal and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Liège, University of Lyon 1, and Ecole Centrale, Paris. He is past Chairman of the Engineering Mechanics Division of ASCE, the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME, and the U.S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, past President of USACM and the American Academy of Mechanics, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

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