Chandrakant S. Desai

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Chandrakant S. Desai , also Chandra S. Desai, (* 1936 in a village in Gujarat , India ) is an Indian -American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ), known as an expert in numerical modeling in geomechanics .

Desai went to school in Ahmedabad and studied civil engineering at the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute of the University of Bombay with a bachelor's degree in 1959. After the competitive exams customary in India, he worked as a civil engineer in a leading position for various government agencies. In 1964 he went to the USA and studied at Rice University with a master's degree in 1966 and at the University of Texas at Austin , where he received his doctorate in 1968. He then worked until 1974 at the Waterways Experimental Station of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg . From 1974 he taught at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and was then Professor at the University of Arizona , from 1989 as Regents Professor . From 1987 to 1991 he was head of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and there he was director of the Center of Material Modeling and Computational Mechanics.

In addition to numerical geomechanics including the development of new constitutive models, he also developed new laboratory methods.

In 2007 he received the Terzaghi Award . From 1976 to 1979 he received the Senior US Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation. In 1972 he received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from the United States Army Corps of Engineers . In 2001 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics (AAM). In 2009 he received the Nathan M. Newmark Medal.

Since 2002 he has been editor of the International Journal of Geomechanics and he is editor of the International Journal of Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics ..

The IACMAG (International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics) awards the Chandra S. Desai Excellence Medal in his honor .

Fonts

  • with JF Abel Introduction to the Finite Element Method , Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972 (translated into Japanese and Chinese)
  • Elementary Finite Element Method , Prentice Hall 1979
  • with T. Kundu Introductory finite element method , CRC Press 2001
  • Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: the disturbed state concept , CRC Press 2001
  • with HJ Siriwardane Constitutive Laws for Engineering Materials: with Emphasis on Geologic Materials , Prentice Hall 1984
  • with RH Gallagher (Editor) Mechanics of Engineering Materials , Wiley 1985
  • as editor Numerical Methods in Geomechanics , 3 volumes, ASCE 1975
  • with John T. Christian (editor): Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, McGraw Hill 1977 (in it by Desai Introduction and Constitutive Laws with Christian, Two and Three Dimensional Dynamic Analysis with Christian and José Roesset, Deep Foundations , Flow through porous media and with Lymon C. Reese laterally loaded piles )

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Desai, Chandrakant S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Desai, Chandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian-American geotechnician
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Gujarat