Bernard Budiansky
Bernard Budiansky | |
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| Born | 8 March 1925 |
| Died | 23 January 1999 (aged 73) |
| Education | B.S., City College of New York , 1944,
Harvard |
| Doctoral advisor | William Prager |
| Doctoral students | John W. Hutchinson Olvi L. Mangasarian |
Bernard Budiansky (.
Biography
BudianskyLangley Field, Virginia.
He took an educational leave from NACA to enroll in 1947 in the graduate program in
Harvard
in 1955.
He made widely cited contributions on the way that fissures and joints in rocks affect the propagation of
seismic waves
, which has become a standard basis for inferring rock properties in the Earth, and contributed to understanding stressing and deformation in the inflation of the human lung.
His work of the later years was focused on problems in the domain of
composite materials
.
Budiansky won many honors including the AIAA 1970
National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences;[4]
and the Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics. Professional affiliations included: ASCE, ASME, AIAA, and AGU.
Bernard Budiansky died January 23, 1999, at his home in Lexington, Massachusetts, aged 73. He was survived by his wife and two sons, one of whom is writer Stephen Budiansky.[5]
See also
- Mechanicians
- Applied mechanics
References
- ^ Bernard Budiansky, 1925-1999, A Biographical Memoir by James R. Rice
- ^ J Arbocz and J Singer (2000) Professor Bernard Budiansky's contributions to buckling and post-buckling of shell structures. AIAA paper number 2000-1322.
- ^ Elishakoff, I., “Bernard Budiansky”, in Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics (H. Altenbach and A. Öchsner, eds.), pp. 237-241, Berlin: Springer, 2020.
- ^ "B. Budiansky (1925 - 1999)" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
- ^ Bernard Budiansky, 1925-1999, A Biographical Memoir by James R. Rice, p. 10
External links
- Bernard Budiansky at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- James R. Rice, "Bernard Budiansky", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2008)
- Acceptance speech upon receiving the Timoshenko Medal
- Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Memorial Minute
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