Erik Vanmarcke
Erik Hector Vanmarcke (born August 6, 1941 in Menen , Belgium ) is a Belgian-American engineering scientist .
Vanmarcke studied at the Catholic University of Leuven with an engineering degree in 1965 and at the University of Delaware with a master's degree in 1967. In 1970 he received his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He became professor of civil engineering at MIT and from 1985 professor at Princeton University .
He was visiting professor at Harvard University (1984/85) and Stanford University (from 1991).
Vanmarcke deals with geotechnics (geological and geotechnical risks), stability of structures, for example against wind, water waves and earthquakes, risk assessment and management and random fields (random field theory) for stochastic simulation.
In the 1990s he also deals with the origins of cosmic structures.
In 1975 he received the Raymond C. Reese Research Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and in 1984 the Walter Huber Research Prize.
From 1982 he was the founding editor of the journal Structural Safety.
Fonts
- Random fields: analysis and synthesis, MIT Press 1983, World Scientific 2010
- Editor with Craig Taylor: Infrastructure risk management processes: natural, accidental, and deliberate hazards, ASCE 2006
- Editor with Craig Taylor: Acceptable risk processes: lifelines and natural hazards, ASCE 2002
- Quantum origins of cosmic structure, Rotterdam: Balkena 1993
Web links
- Page at Princeton University
- Literature by and about Erik Vanmarcke in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vanmarcke, Erik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vanmarcke, Erik Hector (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-American engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Menen , Belgium |