Zdeněk Bažant (engineering scientist)
Zdeněk Pavel Bažant (born December 10, 1937 in Prague ) is a Czech - American engineering scientist .
Life
Bažant is the son of the civil engineering engineer Zdeněk Bažant (1908–2001, Zdeněk J. Bažant), and grandson of the civil engineer Zdeněk Bažant (1879–1954). He won the Mathematics Olympiad in 1955 and then studied civil engineering at the Czech Technical University (CVUT) with a degree in 1960. Three years later, he received his doctorate from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1963, while at the same time working as a bridge engineer for a state company . In his dissertation he dealt with the creep of concrete. In 1966 he also obtained a diploma in theoretical physics and in 1967 he completed his habilitation at CVUT. From 1966 he was on a stay abroad at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley ; after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia he stayed entirely in the United States. In 1969 he was Associate Professor at Northwestern University and in 1973 Professor of Civil Engineering at this university ( McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science ). Since 1971 he has been registered as a structural engineer in Illinois.
He has published over 450 scientific papers. He is known for his work on the mechanics of fractures and creep , scaling behavior and applications of probability theory in mechanics and nanomechanics. He also investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center .
In addition to Czech and English, he speaks Russian, German and French.
Awards
In 1996 he was admitted to the National Academy of Engineering and in 2002 to the National Academy of Sciences . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008), the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (2008), the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 2014 he was elected as a foreign member of the Academia Europaea , in 2015 as a foreign member of the Royal Society .
In 2009 he received the Tymoshenko Medal , in 2005 the Von Karman Medal , in 2015 the Raymond D. Mindlin Medal and in 2016 the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art 1st Class . He has also received the Nadai Medal and Worcester-Reed-Warner Medal from ASME , the Nathan M. Newmark Medal , Maurice A. Biot Medal and J. James R. Croes Medal from ASCE and the William Prager Medal . Bažant has seven honorary doctorates (TU Prague, University of Karlsruhe, Technical University Vienna (2005), Ohio State University, University of Colorado in Boulder, INSA Lyon, Milan Polytechnic).
Fonts
- Scaling of Structural Strength , 2nd edition, Elsevier 2005
- with M. Jirasek Inelastic analysis of structures , Wiley 2002
- with J. Planas Fracture and size effects in concrete and other quasibrittle materials , CRC Press 1998
- with MF Kaplan Concrete at high temperatures: material properties and mathematical models , Addison-Wesley 1996, 2nd edition Pearson 2002
- with L. Cedolin Stability of structures: elastic, inelastic, fracture and damage theories , Oxford University Press 1991, Dover Publications 2003, 3rd edition World Scientific 2010
- Creep of concrete in static analysis (Czech), Prague 1966
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awarding of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class to Professor Zdeněk Bažant. TU Wien, 2016, accessed on October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 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. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.
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| SURNAME | Bažant, Zdeněk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bažant, Zdeněk Pavel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech-American engineer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |