Michael Ortiz

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Michael Ortiz (born August 6, 1954 ) is an American mechanical engineer.

Ortiz studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid with a degree in 1977 and at the University of California, Berkeley , with a master's degree in 1978 and a doctorate in 1981 (Topics in Consitutive Theory for Inelastic Solids). As a post-doctoral student, he was in Berkeley and Madrid. In 1984 he became Assistant Professor, 1987 Associate Professor and 1990 Professor at Brown University and in 2004 Dotty and Dick Hayman Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at Caltech . Since 2013 he has been Frank and Ora Lee Marble Professor there . Since 2016 he has also been a research professor at the University of Bonn (Hausdorff Center).

He deals with the numerical modeling of solid materials over different length scales with application in particular to failure mechanisms (crack formation, plastic deformation, instabilities, etc.). Among other things, he modeled impacts at very high speed.

In 2015 he received the Timoshenko Medal . In 2013 he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and in 2007 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 2002 he received a Humboldt Research Award . He is a corresponding member of the Spanish Academy of Engineering. In 1994/95 he was a Fairchild Scholar at Caltech and in 1977/78 a Fulbright scholar.

Fonts (selection)

  • with JC Simo: An Analysis of a New Class of Integration Algorithms for Elastoplastic Constitutive Relations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 23, 1986, pp. 353-366
  • Computational micromechanics. Comput Mech., Vol. 18, 1996, pp. 321-338.
  • with GT Camacho: Computational modeling of impact damage in brittle materials, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 33, 1996, pp. 2899-2938
  • with EB Tadmor, R. Phillips: Quasicontinuum analysis of defects in solids, Philosophical Magazine A, Volume 73, 1996, pp. 1529-1563
  • with A. Pandolfi: Finite-deformation irreversible cohesive elements for three-dimensional crack-propagation analysis, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 44, 1999, pp. 1267-1282, 1999
  • with VB Shenoy, R. Miller, EB Tadmor, D. Rodney, R. Phillips: An adaptive finite element approach to atomic-scale mechanics - The quasicontinuum method, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 47, 1999, p. 611-642
  • with M. Arroyo: Local maximum-entropy approximation schemes: A seamless bridge between finite elements and meshfree methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 65, 2006, pp. 2167-2202.
  • with T. Kirchdoerfer: Data-Driven Computing in Dynamics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 113, 2018, pp. 1697–1710.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CV  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (pdf), 2017@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.aero.caltech.edu  
  2. ↑ Curriculum Vitae (pdf), December 2018
  3. ^ University of Bonn on the appointment of Ortiz , 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ortiz, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American engineer.
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1954