René de Borst

René de Borst (* 1958 in The Hague ) is a Dutch engineering scientist and Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Life

De Borst graduated from TU Delft in 1982 ( cum laude ), where he received his doctorate with distinction in 1986. In 1988 he received a professorship for numerical mechanics at the TU Delft in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and from 1999 he was Professor of Technical Mechanics in the Faculty of Aircraft Construction. He was also the scientific director of the Koiter Institute for Mechanics (named after Warner Tjardus Koiter, who died in 1997 ). From 2007 he was professor at the TU Eindhoven , where he was dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from 2007 to 2011. From 2012 to 2015 he was Regius Professor of Civil Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Glasgow . Since 2016 he has been the Centenary Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

He is particularly concerned with developments in fracture mechanics (crack formation and propagation of cracks), friction in materials and numerical modeling in mechanics, especially in civil engineering, but also, for example, in aircraft construction. He is co-developer of the DIANA software package. His investigations concerned z. B. Cracks in concrete and composite materials, stability of earth masses, of crooked boreholes and tunnels in stochastically inhomogeneous layers, breaking up of oil-bearing rock layers.

In 1999 he received the Spinoza Prize . In 1996 he received the Max Planck Research Award, in 1998 the Computational Mechanics Award from the International Association of Computational Mechanics and he received several awards from the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics. In 1995 he received the Composite Structure Award and in 2011 the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.

He is editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, and co-editor of the Aeronautical Journal.

De Borst was President of the International Association for Fracture Mechanics of Concrete Structures (1998–2001). In 2005 he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences . He has been a Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics since 2002, a Fellow of the International Association of Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures since 2010, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers since 2012, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 2013, and a member of the European since 2014 Academy of Sciences and Arts and since 2015 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering . In 2015 he received an honorary doctorate from the Institut national des sciences appliquées de Lyon . In the same year he received the Grand Prize of the Japanese Society for Computational Engineering Science and an ERC Advanced Grant. Since 2011 he has been an officer of the Ordre national du Mérite . In 2017 he received the OC Zienkiewicz Medal of the Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and has been an honorary member of the Italian Group of Fracture since 2019.

Fonts (selection)

Editor with Erwin Stein , Thomas JR Hughes Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics , 3 volumes, Wiley 2004
Editor with Ekkehard Ramm: Multiscale methods in computational mechanics , Springer 2010 (therein by Borst, MV Cid Alfaro, ASJ Suiker Multiscale Modeling of the Failure Behavior of fiber reinforced laminates )
Fundamentals of Discretization Methods , Computational methods in buckling and instability in Richard Blockley, Wei Shyy (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering , Volume 3, Wiley 2010
with JJC Remmers Numerical models for self healing mechanisms , in S. van der Zwaag Self Healing Materials An Alternative Approach to 20 Centuries of Materials Science , Springer Series in Materials Science, Vol. 100, 2007
with MGD Geers, RHJ Peerlings Computational Fracture Mechanics in Concrete Technology , in A. Carpenteri, M. Aliabadi Computational damage mechanics , 1999, pp. 23-69
with MGD Geers, RHJ Peerlings, WAM Brekelmans Material Instabilities in Solids , in R. de Borst, E. van der Giessen (editor) Higher-order damage models for the analysis of fracture in quasi-brittle materials , Wiley 1998, p. 405 -423
with JJC Remmers, A. Needleman The simulation of dynamic crack propagation using the cohesive segments method , J. Mech. Phys. Solids, Vol. 56, 2008, pp. 70-92
Challenges in computational materials science: Multiple scales, multi-physics and evolving discontinuities , Comp. Mat. Sci., Vol. 43, 2008, pp. 1-15

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personal data
SURNAME	Borst, René de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague