Masanobu Shinozuka

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Masanobu Shinozuka ( Japanese 篠 塚 正 宣 ; * December 30, 1930 in Tokyo ; † November 5, 2018 in California ) was a Japanese-American civil engineer who was particularly concerned with earthquake-proof construction and risk analysis of building structures.

He also examined the socio-economic effects of natural disasters and remote sensing and geographical information systems for risk prevention and disaster management and undertook risk analyzes of important infrastructure areas such as water, electricity, transport. He also dealt with continuum mechanics, micromechanics, non-destructive testing, stochastic processes and fields, and intelligent materials.

Shinozuka received his degree in civil engineering from the University of Kyoto in 1955 and received his doctorate with Alfred Freudenthal at Columbia University , where he taught from 1958 to 1988. He was then a professor at Princeton University and in 1995 at the University of Southern California . There he was director of the International Institute of Innovative Risk Reduction Research on Civil Infrastructure Systems and received the title of Distinguished Professor. From 2001 to 2013 he was a professor at the University of California, Irvine .

In the early 1990s he was director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research at the National Science Foundation in Buffalo, New York.

In 1994 he received the Von Karman Medal and in 1985 the Nathan M. Newmark Medal . He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1978) and a Fellow of ASCE and ASME.

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SURNAME Shinozuka, Masanobu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-American civil engineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo
DATE OF DEATH 5th November 2018
Place of death California