Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang
Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang , mostly Alfredo HS. Ang quoted, (born July 4, 1930 in Davao City , Philippines ) is an American civil engineer who deals with safety and reliability issues in civil engineering.
Ang studied civil engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology in Manila and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) with a master’s degree in 1957 and a doctorate in 1959. In between he was a design engineer at Mulvaney-McMillan in 1954/55. In 1959 he became an assistant professor and in 1965 a professor at the UIUC. After his retirement in 1988 he was a professor at the University of California, Irvine .
Among other things, he dealt with seismic risks, quantitative risk assessment (QRA), life-cycle costs and wrote a two-volume textbook on safety and reliability in construction and other engineering fields.
In 1982 he received the Alfred M. Freudenthal Medal of the ASCE and in 1988 the Nathan M. Newmark Medal . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1976), Fellow of ASME and Honorary Fellow of ASCE.
Fonts
- with Wilson H. Tang: Probability Concepts in Engineering, Wiley, 2 volumes, 1975, 1984, 2nd edition 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ang, Alfredo Hua-Sing |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Davao City |