Bernard Budiansky

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Bernard Budiansky (born March 8, 1925 in New York City , † January 23, 1999 in Lexington , Massachusetts ) was an American engineer.

Budiansky, the son of Russian immigrants, received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the City College of New York in 1944 and then worked in the Structural Research Division of the NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ), NASA's predecessor in Langley Field, Virginia. In 1950 he received his doctorate in applied mathematics from William Prager ( Fundamental Theorems and Consequences of the Slip Theory of Plasticity ) at Brown University . From 1952 to 1955 he headed the Structural Mechanics department and was then Professor at Harvard University ( Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics and Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering ).

He dealt with theoretical mechanics, for example elasticity and plasticity theory, fracture mechanics, biomechanics, elasticity theory in aircraft construction, mechanical behavior of composite materials and rock mechanics (effect of fissures on the propagation of seismic waves). Budiansky was a longtime advisor to NASA.

In 1982 he received the Von Karman Medal , in 1985 the AC Eringen Medal and in 1989 the Timoshenko Medal . He was an honorary doctor from Northwestern University and the Technion . Budiansky was a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1958), the National Academy of Engineering and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .

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