George J. Dvorak

George J. Dvorak (* 1933 ) is a Czech-American engineer.

Dvorak graduated from the Technical University in Prague as an engineer in 1956 and received his doctorate from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1964 (candidate title). In 1964 he went to Brown University , where he received his PhD in 1969, and in 1967 to Duke University , where he became professor of civil engineering in 1974 and of biomedical engineering in 1977. In 1979 he became a professor at the University of Utah and in 1984 at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . In 2008 he retired.

He was particularly concerned with micromechanics and cracks and fatigue in composite materials.

He was visiting professor at the Polytechnic in Milan, Cambridge, Yale University, the Technical University of Denmark and was Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University from 2007 to 2010 .

In 1994 he received the William Prager Medal , in 2006 the Von Karman Medal and he also received the Nadai Medal and the Drucker Medal. In 1995 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering . He is an honorary doctor of the TU Prague.

Fonts

• Micromechanics of composite materials, Springer Verlag 2012

Web links

• CV, pdf