Ray W. Clough
Ray William Clough (born July 23, 1920 in Seattle - † October 8, 2016 ) was a professor emeritus of structural engineering in the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite element method (FEM). His publication in 1956 (see below) marked the first application of this calculation method and in 1960 he first used the term finite elements .
Life
Clough studied at the University of Washington with a bachelor's degree in 1942, at Caltech with a master's degree in 1943 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1947 and his doctorate in 1949. He then became an assistant professor and later professor at Berkeley. From 1983 he was a Nishkian Professor at Berkeley.
1956/57 (and 1972/73) he was a Fulbright Fellow in Norway, where he dealt with ship vibrations, and in 1963/64 at Churchill College, Cambridge University .
He was considered an authority on earthquake security of structures.
Clough and Wilson vividly described the history of FEM in the early days from 1952 to 1970 in "Early Finite Element Research at Berkeley".
Works / important publications
- MJ Turner , Ray W. Clough, HC Martin, and LJ Topp: Stiffness and deflection analysis of complex structures. In: Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. Volume 23, No. 9, 1956, pp. 805-823
- Ray W. Clough: The finite element method in plane stress analysis. In: Proceedings, 2nd Conference on Electronic Computation, ASCE Structural Division. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1960
- Ray W. Clough, Joseph Penzien : Dynamics of Structures. McGraw-Hill, 1975 and 1993, ISBN 0-07-113241-4
Prices and memberships
- National Medal of Science 1994
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1979) and the National Academy of Engineering
- In 1997 he and John Argyris received the Fellowship of Engineering Prince Philip Medal (in solid gold) from the Royal Academy of Engineering in London (the highest honor in engineering in Great Britain) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to engineering through the formulation and development of finite Elements method.
- Clough received an honorary doctorate from the Technical and Natural Sciences University of Norway (NTNU) in Trondheim in 1982 and from TH Chalmers in Gothenburg in 1979 .
- He was awarded the Von Karman Medal in 1995.
- AC Eringen Medal 1992
- Nathan M. Newmark Medal 1979
- Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
- He was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Civil Engineering in 2006.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ray W. Clough in the catalog of the German National Library
- with photo of Clough, Prince Philip and Argyris
- CUREE Clough-Penzien Symposium
- Berkeley CUREE Symposium in honor of Ray Clough and Joseph Penzien pdf 9132 kB
- Ray W. Clough, Sc.D. , Franklin Laureate Database
literature
- Karl-Eugen Kurrer The History of the Theory of Structures. Searching for Equilibrium , Ernst & Sohn 2018, p. 881ff and p. 981f (biography), ISBN 978-3-433-03229-9
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.ce.memphis.edu/7111/notes/class_notes/papers/fe-history.pdf
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clough, Ray W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clough, Ray William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer, professor of structural engineering |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 23, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Seattle |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2016 |