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RE: Great Structural Engineers - david-smith - 04-30-2012

Wai-Fah Chen

Dr. Wai-Fah Chen -- A well-respected leader in the field of plasticity, structural stability, and structural steel design over the past half-century, he has made major contributions to introduce the mathematical theory of plasticity to civil engineering practice, especially in the application of limit analysis methods to the geotechnical engineering field. Having headed the engineering departments at the University of Hawaii and Purdue University, Chen is a widely cited author and the recipient of several national engineering awards, including the 1990 Shortridge Hardesty Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction.

W. F. Chen, Ph.D. Brown University, Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering and Member of Taiwan National Academy of Science ( Academia Sinica), formerly Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and Dean of Engineering at University of Hawaii. He is currently a Research Professor of Civil Engineering at UH.

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Ram S. Gupta

Professor of Engineering at RWU, Ram Gupta holds forty years of experience working on projects in the United States, Australia, India and Liberia (West Africa). He is a full time faculty at RWU for over 22 years. He is a registered professional engineer (PE) in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Dr. Gupta is President of Delta Engineers, Inc., a RI based consulting company
specializing in Structures and WAter REsources.
He holds a master of engineering from IIT, Roorkee, India and a Ph.D. from Polytechnic University, New York.
Besides contributing a large number of research papers, he has authored two very successful textbooks, Hydrology and Hydraulic Systems, and Introduction to Environmental Engineering.
He worked on the technical scrutiny of energy related projects for inclusion in the National Five Year Plans of India and to monitor their progress. He was a member of the team to investigate the UN sponsored multinational Mano River Valley Hydropower Project in Africa. As a hydrology expert to the Government of Liberia, he set up a network of hydrometric stations and assessed the hydropower potential of the nation. For New York State Energy Resources Development Authority (NYSERDA) , he investigated the small hydropower potential in New York, as part of the team at Center of Regional Technology of Polytechnic University. The center developed the User's Manual for Small Hydropower Development. His research interest has been focused on the energy alternatives and renewable energy developments including wind energy sources which he covered in his environmental book.

Scott S. Washburn

Scott Washburn is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering at the University of Florida, where he has served on the faculty since August of 1999. Dr. Washburn obtained his BSCE, MSCE, and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington. He also has three years of professional consulting experience outside of academia, and is a registered professional engineer in the states of Washington and Florida.

Dr. Washburn's primary research areas are traffic operations and level of service. Other focus areas include software development, development and testing of simulation models, and statistical and numeric methods. He is a member of the Highway Capacity and Quality of Service Committee for the Transportation Research Board, and is chair of the user liaison subcommittee, past chair of the freeway/multilane highway subcommittee, and is also actively involved with the two-lane highway, simulation, and performance measures subcommittees.

Fred L. Mannering

Fred Mannering is currently the Charles Pankow Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University with a courtesy appointment in the Department of Economics. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he received his engineering bachelors degree from the University of Saskatchewan, masters degree from Purdue University and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Mannering's expertise is in the application of statistical and econometric methods to study a variety of subject areas including highway safety, transportation economics, automobile demand, and travel behavior.

Merle C. Potter

MERLE C. POTTER has four engineering degrees from Michigan Technological University and The University of Michigan. He has coauthored Statics, Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Fluid Mechanics, The Mechanics of Fluids, Thermodynamics for Engineers, Thermal Sciences, Differential Equations, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Engineering Your Future, and Jump Start the HP-48G in addition to numerous exam review books. His research involved fluid flow stability and energy related topics. In addition to teaching awards,he was inducted into the Academy of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan Tech; ASME awarded him the 1980 Centennial Award and the 2008 James Harry Potter Gold Medal. He is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University and continues to write and golf.

Alan Williams

Alan Williams, Ph.D., S.E., F.I.C.E., C. Eng., is a registered structural engineer in California who obtained his bachelor of science degree and doctorate from Leeds University. He has had extensive experience in the teaching and practice of structural engineering including the design and construction of bridges, schools, commercial and industrial structures. Dr. Williams has worked in California in the Department of Transportation and as Principal for Structural Safety in the Division of the State Architect. His other positions include Professor of Structural Analysis at Ahmadu Bello University, and as a consulting structural engineer in South Africa and the United States.
The author has published 13 papers and 9 books on structural engineering topics. He is a member of the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California, Fellow and Life Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom.

Biography for Robert Park
General
Professor Bob Park was born in Fiji in 1933. He obtained Bachelors and Masters degrees in civil
engineering at Canterbury University, New Zealand and a PhD degree in civil engineering at the
University of Bristol, England. He has worked most of his life in universities: Canterbury
University during 1956-59, University of Bristol during 1960-65, and University of Canterbury
during 1965-present. He was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of
Canterbury in 1968 and retired from that position on 31 January 1999. He was Head of the
Department of Civil Engineering during 1978-92. He was also Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the
University of Canterbury during 1993-1999.
Professor Park’s teaching and research work has been mainly in the fields of prestressed concrete
structures, particularly the design of buildings and bridges for earthquake resistance. He was
Chair of the Concrete Design Committee of Standards New Zealand.
He has served as President of the New Zealand Prestressed Concrete Institute (1975-77) and
President of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering (1983-85), has
served as Executive Vice-President of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering
(1996-2000). He has served as member of many other international technical committees.
Research and Publications
Professor Park’s research has resulted in his authorship of two books, nine invited chapters in
books and about 300 technical papers published in journals and conference proceedings in New
Zealand and overseas.
His major work, the book “Reinforced Concrete Structures” written by Professor Park and his
colleague Professor T Paulay, was published by John Wiley and Sons, New York in 1975. It has
been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Indonesia.
A second book, “Reinforced Concrete Slabs” written by Professor Park and Professor W L
Gamble of the University of Illinois, Urbana, USA, was published by John Wiley and Sons, New
York, in 1990. It has been translated into Spanish. A second edition published in 2000.
Applications to Structural Design
In the 1970s Professor Park chaired a discussion group of the New Zealand National Society for
Earthquake Engineering on the seismic design of ductile reinforced concrete building structures.
The extensive reports of this group led to the pioneering code for the design of concrete
structures published by the Standards Association of New Zealand in 1982. The significant
advancements of this code, NZS 3101:1982, were (1) the introduction of the capacity design
method for ensuring predictable and appropriate behaviour of buildings and bridge structures
during severe earthquakes by ensuring that the balance of strength between the members was
such that brittle failure mechanisms did not occur, (2) the procedures for detailing reinforcement
in beams, columns and walls for adequate ductility, and (3) the methods for detailing beamcolumn
joints for adequate strength. NZS 3101:1982 has become widely known and referred to
overseas. Professor Park has recently chaired the committee of Standards New Zealand which
has produced the revision to NZS 3101 which was published in 1995. He is a member of the
committee that is conducting the current revision.
Associated in this research work on concrete structures with Professor Park in the 1970s and
1980s were his colleagues Professor T Paulay and Professor MJN Priestley and many
postgraduate (ME and PHD) students. The outcome of the research and development conducted
by the University of Canterbury group, under Professor Park’s leadership, has been adopted by
many building codes overseas. The pioneering developments in seismic design are considered
to be the capacity design procedure and the methods for detailing structures for adequate strength
and ductility.
Awards
As a result of his research and development Professor Park has received 21 prestigious awards
from New Zealand and overseas technical societies and institutions for his published papers.
These awards were for the best papers published in their field. Particularly prestigious were the
Guthrie Brown Award, Murray Buxton Bronze Medal and the Murray Buxton Medal of the
Institution of Structural Engineers of the United Kingdom made in 1969, 1993, and 1999
respectively; the Moisseiff and T Y Lin Awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers
made in 1978, 1981, and 1992, respectively; the Martin P Korn Award of the American
Prestressed Concrete Institute made in 1987 and 1991, the Charles C Zollman Award of the
American Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute in 2003 and the Raymond C Reese Structural
Research Award of the American Concrete Institute made in 1984 and 1989. He has also
received the Fulton Gold Medal of the Institution of Engineers in 1972 and 1997 and several
other IPENZ awards through the years.
He has been honoured in other ways by technical and scientific institutions, mainly in China and
South America where he has lectured frequently.
He was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1978 and was the
first civil engineer to be so invited.
In 1990 he was invited to become a Foreign Member of the Fellowship of Engineering (FEng)
of the United Kingdom, which became the Royal Academy of Engineering in July 1992. His
invitation for Fellowship was for “exceptional merit and distinction in the field of engineering”.
In 1993 he was awarded the Professional Commitment Award of the Institution of Professional
Engineers New Zealand for his “contributions to engineering education and to professional
engineering”.
In 1994 he received on behalf of the Structural Engineering Laboratory of the University of
Canterbury the 1993 Charles S Whitney Medal of the American Concrete Institute. The ACI
Board of Directors and Personal Awards Committee selected the Laboratory “for a tradition of
leadership and excellence in research on structural concrete, particularly as applied to the design
of structures in seismic regions”.
In 1995 on the occasion of the Queen’s Birthday he received the honour of Officer of the Civil
Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) “in recognition of his services
to civil engineering”.
In 1997 he received Honorary Membership of the American Concrete Institute “in recognition
of his worldwide contributions to the understanding of reinforced and prestressed concrete,
particularly with its resistance to earthquakes”.
In 1997 he also received the medal of the Fédération Internationale de la Précontrainte, which
became the Fédération Internationale du Beton (the International Federation of Structural
Concrete) in 1998 with headquarters in Switzerland, “in recognition of his personal dedication
to seismic analysis design and also, more generally, that of the New Zealand School of Seismic
Design”.
In 1997 he received the inaugural R J Scott Medal of the Royal Society of New Zealand “for his
leadership and meritorious contributions in the field of seismic design and performance of
concrete structures”.
In 1998 he received Distinguished Fellowship of the Institution of Professional Engineers New
Zealand “in recognition of his eminent engineering career as well as his efforts on behalf of the
community in general and his profession in particular”.
In 1998 he received the inaugural Research Medal of the University of Canterbury “for
excellence in research”.
In 2000 he received Honorary Membership of the International Association for Earthquake
Engineering “for contributions to earthquake engineering”.
In 2000 he received the Millenium 2000 Award of the Institution of Professional Engineers New
Zealand in Building and Construction “for his leadership of structural engineering research, and
his determination to achieve sound answers to difficult challenges; for his generous and
unstinting efforts to pass on his knowledge to engineers in so many countries; and for his
massive contribution to his chosen profession in New Zealand”.
In 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering [DEng (honoris causa)] of the
University of Canterbury.
In 2002 he received the Honorary Award of the First Congress of the International Federation
for Structural Concrete (fib) in Osaka, Japan “for outstanding achievements in concrete
technology and structures”.
In 2003 he received the Award for Structural Engineering Excellence of the Structural
Engineering Society of New Zealand in “recognition of an outstanding application of the science
of structural engineering and for leadership, research and teaching in Structural Engineering”.
In 2004 he received the Meritorious Service Award from Standards New Zealand for individuals
who have a record of significant contribution to voluntary standardization and who have
demonstrated outstanding service in enabling Standards New Zealand to attain the objectives for
which it was founded.
Research Administration
Professor Park was a member of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee Standing
Committee on Research during 1991-98.
He was a member of the Marsden Committee during 1996-98 and was the Convenor of its Earth
Sciences and Astronomy Panel during 1996-97 and a member of its Physical Sciences and
Engineering Panel during 1996-98.
He was chair of the Engineering, Technology and Architecture Panel of the Performance Based
Research Fund Quality Evaluation of the Tertiary Education Commission in 2003-04.

Larry W. Mays, Ph.D., P.E., P.H.
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona 85287

Phone: 480-965-2524

Fax: 480-965-0557

[email protected]
My Interests in Water

Water resources has been a part of my personal journey that began years ago when I was a young boy with an inquisitive interest and love of water, fishing and playing in the creeks, ponds, lakes, and rivers. Coming from a small Illinois town between the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers near Mark Twain’s country, I began to see and appreciate at an early age the beauty, the useful power, and the extreme destructiveness that water can create. Later on these beginning interests led me to study civil engineering in college having been influenced greatly by Paul Munger and the late Terry Harbaugh. My graduate studies in water resources were greatly influenced by Jon Liebman, the late Ven Te Chow and the late Ben C. Yen. Along this personal journey, I have been influenced and encouraged by so many wonderful people.

My continued personal journey in teaching and performing research in water resources has been a very rewarding experience. Through out my personal journey in life this love of water has continued not only as my profession, but even in my spare time, being an avid snow skier, fly-fisherman, and scuba diver. During the past ten years I have expanded my personal journey to the study of ancient water structures, especially those built by the Romans. My career has afforded me many travel opportunities around the World. I have taken advantage of those trips to Europe and Turkey to visit and photograph many aqueducts and other water structures built by the Romans. Many of the photographs of these sites are located in this web site.

Career

Larry W. Mays has been a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University since August 1989. He served as Chair of the Department from August 1989 until July 1996. Prior to that he was Director of the Center for Research in Water Resources and holder of an Engineering Foundation Endowed Professorship at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was on the faculty since 1976. Prior to that, he was a graduate research assistant and then a Visiting Research Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received the Ph.D. in January 1976. He received the B.S. (1970) and M.S. (1971) degrees in civil engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla, after which he served in the U.S. Army, (1970-1973) stationed at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California.

His primary professional activity as a professor, previously at the University of Texas and now at Arizona State University, has spanned over 27 years. Other professional activities have included serving as a consultant to various government agencies and industries and serving as an expert witness in several litigations concerning flooding and other water-related issues. He is a registered professional engineer in seven states, a registered professional hydrologist with the American Institute of Hydrology, a member of several professional associations, and is listed in several biographies including Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World.

Teaching

The primary function of a professor is to teach and part of the teaching is performing research with students. Classroom teaching has included both undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics, hydraulics, water resources design, surface-water hydrology, open-channel flow, groundwater hydrology, water resources planning and management, and water resources systems analysis. Mentoring of graduate students has also been a major focus in his career having supervised to completion 27 Ph.D. students and 27 M.S. students with theses and many other non-thesis master’s degree students. Through the friendships that I have developed, each of these graduate students have left a special place in my heart.

Research Interests and Philosophy

Larry’s research interests are in the application of simulation models, optimization methods and risk/reliability methods to the design, analysis, and operation of hydrosystems including water distribution systems, stormwater management systems, flood and sediment control of river-reservoir systems, estuarine systems, groundwater systems, and the planning and management of watersheds and river basins. He has been principal investigator or co-principal investigator on many research projects sponsored by federal, state, and local government agencies. These research projects have ranged from mathematical (computer) model development using optimization and probability analysis for urban drainage design, water energy systems, soil aquifer treatment systems, risk and reliability analysis of hydraulic structures, development of optimal flood forecasting systems, alluvial fans, to experimental hydraulic analysis of culverts.

I feel that research is a very important part of the education function of the University. The unfortunate thing is that at many institutions the amount of external funding one receives is the primary measure of a professor’s research efforts and the quality of research has little or no bearing. What’s even worse is the attitude that it’s not research unless it’s being externally funded. Some of the best Ph.D. dissertations that I have supervised were not the result of externally funded efforts.

Publications and Books

Larry has published extensively in the water resources literature including over 85 refereed journal publications, 85 papers in proceedings of national and international conferences, 30 reports, and many book chapters including two chapters in the Handbook of Civil Engineering Practice. After several years of teaching with what I considered somewhat inadequate textbooks and other materials for the water resources engineering classroom, I set out to develop my own books for the classroom and the profession. I am still very heavily involved in this effort. Each of my books have been dedicated to humanity and human welfare.

My books include: co-author of Applied Hydrology, by V. T. Chow, D. R. Maidment, and L. W. Mays, published by McGraw-Hill Company in February 1988; editor of the book Reliability Analysis of Water Distribution Systems published by the American Society of Civil Engineers in August 1989 of which he was author or co- author of 10 of the 14 chapters; co-author of Hydrosystems Engineering and Management, by L. W. Mays and Y. K. Tung, published by McGraw-Hill Book Company in 1992, and co-editor of the book Computer Modeling of Free-Surface and Pressurized Flow published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1994. He was author of Optimal Control of Hydrosystems published by Marcel-Dekker in 1997; editor-in-chief of the Water Resources Handbook published by McGraw-Hill in 1996; editor-in-chief of Hydraulic Design Handbook published by McGraw-Hill in 1999; editor-in-chief of Water Distribution Systems Handbook, published by McGraw-Hill in 2000; editor-in-chief of Stormwater Collection Systems Handbook published by McGraw-Hill in 2001; author of Water Resources Engineering published by Wiley in 2000 with a new 2005 edition; and editor-in-chief of Urban Water Supply Handbook published by McGraw-Hill in 2002; editor-in-chief of Water Supply Systems Security published by McGraw-Hill in 2004; the third edition of Groundwater Hydrology (with David K. Todd) published by Wiley in 2005; and editor-in-chief of Water Resources Systems Management Tools published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. The Urban Water Supply Handbook won the Honorable Mention Award in Engineering from the Association of American Publishers in 2002. Presently he is working on a new book, Water Resources Sustainability to be published by McGraw-Hill.

Professional Memberships

Professional memberships include being a Fellow of the International Water Resources Association and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, where he has been very active on committees in the Hydraulics Engineering Division and the Water Resources Planning and Management Division. He is also a member of the American Water Resources Association, the American Institute of Hydrology, the International Association of Hydraulic Research, the International Water History Association, the American Water Works Association, and a representative to the Universities Council on Water Resources (UCOWR). He has served on the Board of Directors of UCOWR and also as President.

Greatest Honor

In 1999 he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

ANIL K. CHOPRA

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Biographical Summary
ANIL K. CHOPRA
(510) 642-1292 (bus.)
(925) 254-9275 (res.)
Personal Data
Born: February 18, 1941; Peshawar, India
Citizenship: Naturalized U.S. Citizen, 1977
Education
B.S. Civil Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, India, 1960
M.S. Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1963
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Professional and Academic Experience
1960 Engineer, Standard Vacuum Oil Company, India
1961 Design Engineer, Kaiser Engineers Overseas Corp., India
1966-67 Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1967-92 Lecturer and Assistant Research Engineer (1967-69), Assistant Professor (1969-71),
Associate Professor (1971-76), Professor (1976- ) of Civil Engineering, University of
California Berkeley
1980-83 Vice Chairman, Division of Structural Engineering and Structural Mechanics, University of
California, Berkeley
1991-93, Chair, Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Group, Department of Civil
1994-97 Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
1992- Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Chair in Engineering, University of California,
Berkeley
Awards and Honors
Banaras Hindu University Gold Medal for standing first in order of merit at the B.Sc. (Civil Engineering)
examination, 1960
Certificate of merit awarded to the paper, "Analysis of Earthquake Performance of Koyna Dam," by the
Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, 1974
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1975
Norman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1979
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, awarded at the Diamond Jubilee
Celebration of Engineering Education, 1980
Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1984
Honor Award, Association of Indians in America, 1985
AT&T Foundation Award, American Society for Engineering Education, 1987
Raymond C. Reese Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989
Miller Research Professor, University of California at Berkeley, Fall, 1990
Norman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1991
Horace, Dorothy and Katherine Johnson Chair in Engineering, University of California of Berkeley, 1992
Nathan M. Newmark Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1993
Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1998
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California at Berkeley, 1999
Norman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001
George W. Housner Medal, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2002
National Award for Significant Contribution in Science and Technology, Government of Venezuela, 2002
Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2004
Elected Honorary Member International Association for Earthquake Engineering, 2004
Elected Fellow, Structural Engineers Association of California, 2004
Doctor Honnoris Causa, Technical University of Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, 2007
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Keynote Lectures and Distinguished Lectures
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dams," 1986 Annual Lecture,
Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Roorkee, India, 1986.
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," Keynote Lecture, 5th Canadian
Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 6-8, 1987
"Earthquake Analysis and Response of Concrete Dams," Keynote Lecture, Engineering Mechanics Division
Conference, ASCE, Blacksburg, Virginia, May 22-25, 1988
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," Keynote Paper presented at the
International Workshop on Research Needs in Dam Safety, New Delhi, India, February 7-14, 1989
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," a seminar in the 1989
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of
Houston, Houston, Texas, March 31, 1989
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," invited Keynote Lecture, Fourth
U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Palm Springs, California, May, 1990.
Lecture series on earthquake engineering presented at National Taiwan University, at the invitation of the
National Science Council, Republic of China, 1990.
"Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Arch Dams," Invited State-of-the-Art
Lecture, Tenth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Spain, July, 1992.
"Accidental and Natural Torsion in Earthquake Response and Design of Buildings," State-of-the-Art talk,
11th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, June 1996.
“Numerical Analysis of Concrete Dams: Past, Present and Future,” Keynote Address, Fifth Benchmark
Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams, International Commission on Large Dams, Denver, CO,
June 2-5, 1999.
“Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Arch Dams, Invited Keynote Lecture, 3rd U.S.-
Japan Workshop on Advanced Research on Earthquake Engineering for Dams, San Diego, Calif.,
22-23 June 2002.
“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Seismic Engineering of Buildings,” Emilio
Rosenblueth Lecture, University of Mexico, Mexico City, March 2003.
“A Modal Pushover Analysis Procedure to Estimate Seismic Demands for Buildings: Summary and
Evaluation,” Keynote Lecture, 5th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey,
May 2003.
“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Seismic Engineering of Buildings,” Special Lecture
for Graduating M.S. Class in Earthquake Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, June
2003.
“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” CD-Rom Proceedings,
International Conference in Commemoration of the 5th Anniversary of the 1999 Chi-Chi Earthquake,
Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan. September 2004.
“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Keynote Paper No. 5007,
Proceedings, 13th World Conference Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, Canada, August 2004.
“Estimated Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Keynote Address,
Earthquake Engineering in the 21st Century, International Conference to Commemorate 40th Anniversary
of the Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Skopje. Macedonia, September
2005.
“Estimated Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Keynote Address, IX
Jornadas de Sismologia, Conception, Chile, November 2005.
“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings, Keynote Address,
Conference, Thirty Years from the Romania Earthquake of 4 March 1977, Bucharest, Romania, March
2007.
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“Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Keynote Address,
International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Disaster Mitigation, Jakarta, Indonesia, April
2008.
Activities in Professional Societies
American Society of Civil Engineers, Member
American Society of Civil Engineers, Engineering Mechanics Division
Dynamics Committee, Chairman (1975-77)
Editorial Board, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division (1975-77)
Advisory Committee, 1983 ASCE-EMD Specialty Conference
Executive Committee
Secretary (1981-83), Member (1983-87), Chairman (1986)
Advisory Board (1986-91), Chairman (1989)
American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Division
Committee on Seismic Effects, Chairman (1983-86)
Administrative Committee on Dynamic Effects, Chairman (1986-88)
Steering Committee, 1989 Structures Congress
Executive Committee, Member (1988-92), Chairman (1991)
Awards Committee (1991-96)
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Member
Board of Directors (1990-93)
Committee on Strong Motion (1973-79)
Committee on Earthquake Design Computations (1977-80)
Steering Committee, 1979 National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Steering Committee, 8th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
Advisory and Program Committees, 4th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 1990
Monograph Committee, Chairman (1989-90)
Honors Committee (1993-99)
Endowment Committee (1994-96)
Editorial Board, Earthquake Spectra (1999- )
International Association for Earthquake Engineering
Technical Review Committee Member for 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th World Conferences on
Earthquake Engineering (1973, -77, -80, -88, -92, -96)
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics: General Editor
Executive Committee: Consultative Member (2000- )
U.S. Society on Dams, Member
Committee on Methods of Numerical Analysis of Dams (1978- )
American Concrete Institute
Committee 442: Response of Buildings to Lateral Forces (1971-81)
Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, Member
Seismology Committee (1971-74, 1985-87), Research Committee (1985-89)
Board of Directors, Member (1987-89)
Seismological Society of America, Member; Board of Directors (1982-83)
Indian Society of Earthquake Technology, Member
Applied Technology Council
Board of Directors (1972-74)
Chairman, Task Committee on Structural Analysis, Applied Technology Council Project ATC-3 for the
development of new recommendations for the seismic design provisions of building codes (1974-77)
Participant, ATC-35 Ground Motion Initiative Workshop, San Diego, California, July 30-31, 1997.
Applied Technology Council
Focus Group FEMA-440 Project on “Improvement of Inelastic Seismic Analysis Procedures”
Applied Technology Council
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Focus Group FEMA-440 Project on “Improvement of Inelastic Seismic Analysis Procedures”
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Task Force on Seismic Analysis of Mechanical Systems (1982-88)
Service to Educational or Governmental Agencies
National Academy of Sciences Review Committee for "The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964:
Engineering" (1972)
Member, U.S. Delegation (eight members) to the U.S.-Japan Seminar on Earthquake Engineering with
Emphasis on Lifeline Systems, Tokyo, Japan, 1976
Member, U.S. Delegation (six members) to the Soviet Union to discuss and exchange information on design
and construction of dams and hydroelectric power plant structures in seismic regions, 1977
Member, U.S. Delegation (twelve members) to the Advisory meeting on Earthquake Engineering and
Landslides, U.S.-R.O.C. Cooperative Science Program, Taipei, R.O.C., 1977
Member, U.S. Delegation (ten members) to the Indo-U.S.A. Workshop on Natural Disasters Mitigation
Research, New Delhi, India, 1978
Member, Advisory Board, MIT Press Series in Structural Mechanics (1979-82)
National Research Council Committee on Natural Disasters
Member (1980-85); Vice Chairman (1981); Chairman (1982-83)
Member, Earthquake Engineering Panel (1974-79)
National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering Research (1981-82)
Working Group Member
National Research Council Committee on Earthquake Engineering: Panel on Concrete Dams (1986-90)
National Science Foundation: U.S. Planning Committee for the U.S.-China Arch Dams Workshop, 1987
Seismic Safety Commission, State of California
Member, Lifeline Facilities Subcommittee, Strong Motion Instrumentation Committee (1981-85)
Advisory Committee, U.S.-India Cooperative Earthquake Instrumentation Project (1981-87)
Participant, Earthquake Hazards Mitigation Program Future Directories II Workshop,
National Science Foundation, August 3-4, 1995
Member, Advisory Committee on Structural Safety of Department of Veterans Affairs Facilities,
Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, D.C. (1995-2000)
Member, Consulting Board for Earthquake Analysis, Division of Safety of Dams, Department of Water
Resources, State of California (1996- )
Member, Technical Subcommittee 2 on Design Criteria and Analysis, Building Seismic Safety Council,
National Institute of Building Sciences (1998-2001)
National Academy of Engineering
Civil Engineering Peer Committee (1997-99); Chair (1999).
Nominating Committee (2003-2004)
Section Liaison to National Research Council (2004-2007)
Membership Policy Committee (2004-2006)
Member, Department of Conservation, Strong Motion Instrumentation Program, State of California, Strong
Motion Instrumentation Advisory Committee (2003- )
Editorial and Review Service
National Academy of Sciences Review Committee for "The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964:
Engineering" (1972)
International Association for Earthquake Engineering
Technical Review Committee Member for 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th World Conferences on
Earthquake Engineering (1973, -77, -80, -88, -92, -96)
Editorial Board, Journal of the Engineering Mechanics Division, ASCE (1975-77)
Member, Advisory Board, MIT Press Series in Structural Mechanics (1979-82)
Executive Editor, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, the Journal of the International
Association for Earthquake Engineering, General Editor (1996-2004); Associate Editor (1988-96).
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Editorial and Review Service (continued)
Editorial Advisory Board, Dam Engineering, an international journal published by International Water Power
and Dam Construction (1990- )
National Science Foundation, Chair, Panel to review research proposals, June, 1994
Editorial Board, Earthquake Spectra (1999-2006)
Editorial Committee, Journal of Earthquake Technology, Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (1999- )
Invited Talks
1969 Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
1972 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
1973 Structural Engineers Association of California, San Francisco
1973 Structural Engineers Association of California, San Diego
1973 Stanford University
1974 Winter Annual Meeting, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1975 Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology, Skopje, Yugoslavia
1976-79 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute: Symposium on Interpretation of Strong Motion
Earthquake Records for Design Criteria and Structural Response: Oakland; Los Angeles;
Seattle; Washington, D.C.; Houston; St. Louis; Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
1976 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1976 U.S.-Japan Seminar on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo
1977 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
1977 Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi
1977 U.S.-R.O.C. Cooperative Science Program, Taipei, R.O.C.
1977 U.S.-Soviet Union Seminar on Design of Large Dams in Seismic Areas, Moscow
1978 Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
1978 Structural Engineers Association of California, Los Angeles
1978 University of Notre Dame
1980 Symposium on Seismic Design Today, ASCE, Los Angeles
1980 Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, Mississippi
1980 Panel on Soil-Structure Interaction, 7th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul,
Turkey
1981 Tercer Seminario Internacional Sobre Ingenieria Sismica, Bogota, Colombia
1982 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute--Regional Seminars in Salt Lake City, Utah and
Anchorage, Alaska
1982 Winter Annual Meeting, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1983 Illinois Section, ASCE and Great Lakes Chapter, EERI, Chicago
1983 Ohio State University, Columbus
1984 University of Catania, Italy: Series of ten lectures on "Earthquake Analysis Response and Design
of Structures Including Structure-Water-Foundation Interaction," June, 1984
1984 Association of Engineers, Province of Catania, Italy: "Dynamic Analysis and Building Code
Procedures," June, 1984
1984 Stanford University, "Earthquake Analysis and Design of Concrete Dams"
1985 EERI Seminar on Earthquake Fundamentals, Boston: "Structural Engineering--Analysis"
1986 Structural Engineers Association of Northern California, San Francisco
1987 EERI Seminar on "Strong Ground Motion--Analysis, Design and Code Issues," San Francisco
1988 "Building Structural Analysis and Codes," EERI-Sponsored Two-Day Seminar on Strong Ground
Motion--Seismic Analysis, Design, and Code Issues in the Central United States, Chicago,
Illinois, May 13-14, 1988.
1988 "Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," Pacific Gas and Electric
Company, San Francisco, California, April 29, 1988.
1988 "Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," Division of Safety of
Dams, Department of Water Resources, State of California, Sacramento, California, June 29,
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1988.
Invited Talks (continued)
1989 "Earthquake Analysis and Response of Concrete Dams," Department of Civil Engineering, Rice
University, Houston, Texas, March 31, 1989.
1989 "Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics," Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco,
California, May 19, 1989.
1994 "Structural Analysis," short course on "Awareness in Earthquake Engineering Practice,"
University of California, Berkeley, June, 1994.
1995 "What Ground Motion Parameters Should be Mapped," National Earthquake Ground Motion
Mapping Workshop, Los Angeles, California, September 22-23, 1995.
1995 "Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams," CUREe Symposium in
Honor of George Housner, Pasadena, California, October 27-28, 1995.
1996 "Concrete Dam Analysis," Association of State Dam Safety Officials Seminar on Earthquake
Engineering for Dams, Sacramento, California, April 11-12, 1996.
1996 "Emilio Rosenblueth's Selected Results in Structural Dynamics," 11th World Conference on
Earthquake Engineering, Acapulco, Mexico, June 1996.
1997 "Improvements in Code Analysis of Buildings using Motions Recorded during Earthquakes,"
Northridge Earthquake Conference, Los Angeles, August 1997.
1998 "Accuracy of Response Spectrum Estimates of Structural Response to Near Field Earthquake
Ground Motions,” Structural Engineers World Congress, San Francisco, CA, July 20-24,
1998.
1998 “Seismic code Improvements Based on Recorded Motions of Buildings during Earthquakes,”
SMIP98 Utilization of Strong Motion Data, Oakland, CA, September 15, 1998.
1999 “Capacity-Demand Diagram Methods for Estimating Seismic Deformation of Buildings,” Meeting
on U.S.-Japan Cooperation Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, Sonoma,
CA, March 19, 1999.
1999 “Dynamic Analysis Procedures for Performance-Based Seismic Design,” Seoul National
University, Seoul, Korea, December 14-15, 1999.
1999 “Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Gravity Dams,” Seoul
National University, Seoul, Korea, December 14-15, 1999.
1999 Workshop on Performance-Based Seismic Design of Buildings, National Center for Research
on Earthquake Engineering, Taiwan, December 17-18, 1999.
2000 “Capacity-Demand-Diagram Methods Based on Inelastic Design Spectrum,” 12th World
Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, January 30-February 4,
2000.
2000 “Earthquake Analysis, Design, and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams,” Seminar 2000 Disastres
Sismicos, Ministerio de Ciencia Y Technologia, Caracas, Venezuela, February 21-25, 2000.
2001 “Earthquake Analysis, Design and Safety Evaluation of Concrete Dams,” Seminar, Earthquake
Engineering Research Institute Student Chapter, University of California, Los Angeles,
California, 4 June 2001.
2002 “Modal Pushover Analysis of Generic Frames, 7th National Conference on Earthquake
Engineering, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Boston, Mass., July 2002.
2002 “Modal Pushover Seismic Analysis of SAC Buildings excluding Gravity Loads,” 12th European
Conference on Earthquake Engineering, London, September 2002.
2004 “Modal Pushover Analysis: Symmetric and Unsymmetric-plan Buildings,” Workshop on
Performance-Based Design, BLED, Slovenia, June 2004.
2005 “Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Invited
Lecture Series, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, June 2005.
2005 “Estimating Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Invited
Lecture, Orinde degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Catania, Catania, Italy, June 2005.
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2005 “Estimating Seismic Demands for Structures in Engineering Practice: Constrained by Computer
Software, Building Codes, and Building Evaluation Guidelines, Luis Esteva Symposium:
Seismic Engineering—Challenges and Tendencies, Mexico City, Mexico.
2006 “Estimated Seismic Demands for Performance-Based Engineering of Buildings,” Invited
Lecture, International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Tehran, Iran.
Invited Talks (continued)
2006 “Evaluation of the Modal Pushover Analysis Procedure for Unsymmetric-Plan Buildings,” First
European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland,
September 2006.
2008 “Short Course on Performance-Based Design,” Indonesian Earthquake Engineering Association
and Institute Tekologi Bandung, Jakarta, Indonesia, April 2008.
2008 “Application of Modal Pushover Analysis to RC Frames and Incremental Dynamic Analysis,”
Workshop on Nonlinear Static methods for Design Assessment of 3D Structures, Lisbon,
Portugal, May 2008.
Consulting
1972-73 International Engineering Company, San Francisco, California
Analysis of response of Pacoima arch dam during San Fernando earthquake
Analysis procedures to include seepage forces in concrete dam analyses
1972 Integral Ltda., Medellin, Colombia
Evaluation of proposed design for the intake tower for the Guatape power station
1972 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
1972 Harding, Miller, Lawson and Associates, San Rafael, California
Earthquake engineering concepts
1972 Maurseth, Howe, Lockwood and Associates, Los Angeles, California
Simulated ground motions for structural design of Whittier Lutheran Towers
1972-78 Lindvall, Richter and Associates, Los Angeles, California
Seismic safety analysis of various structures:
- Liquid nitrogen gas tanks at Port Hueneme, Oxnard and Point Concepcion sites
- Los Angeles Reservoir outlet tower
- Big Tujunga Dam
- Crystal Springs Dam
1974 East Bay Municipal Utilities District, Oakland, California
Safety evaluation of Briones tower against future earthquakes
1974-77 Applied Technology Council
Chairman, Task Committee on Structural Analysis, Project ATC-3 for the development of
new recommendations for the seismic design provisions of building codes
1975 Agbagbian Associates, El Segundo, California
Earthquake response analysis of Norris Dam in Tennessee in connection with the proposed
Clinch River Breeder Reactor downstream of the dam
1975-90 Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Procedures for analysis, design, and safety evaluation of concrete dams and intake-outlet
towers for earthquake effects
1976-79 State of California Department of Water Resources
Earthquake safety evaluation of Thermalito Diversion Dam and Thermalito Power Plant
Headwords Structure
1978 Engineering Decision Analysis Company, Palo Alto, California
Earthquake response analysis of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant - Unit 2
1978 T. Y. Lin International, San Francisco, California
Earthquake-resistant design of liquid storage tanks
1978-80 Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Soil-structure interaction part of the Seismic Safety Margin Research Program
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1979-81 American Association of Railroads
Computer procedures for analytical problems encountered by the railroad industry
1978-80 Wilson, Ihrig and Associates, Oakland, California
Ground-borne noise and vibration from rail transit operations
Consulting (continued)
1980-81 Integral Ltda., Medellin, Colombia
Earthquake analysis of intake towers at the San Carlos Hydroelectric Project
1980-84 Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Francisco and Orange, California
Earthquake-resistant design of concrete structures at the Potrerillos Dam Project, Argentina
Soil-structure interaction analysis, South Texas Project
Earthquake Safety Evaluation of Eaton Wash Dam, Pasadena, California
1981-83 Lindvall, Richter and Associates, Los Angeles, California
Earthquake safety evaluation of Juncal Dam, near Montecito, California
1981 World Bank, Washington, D.C.
Sardar Sarovar Dam, Gujarat, India
1981-83 Lindvall, Richter and Associates, Los Angeles, California
Earthquake safety evaluation of Mulholland Dam
1981-84 Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Francisco, California
Earthquake-resistant design of concrete structures at the Alta Sinu Hydroelectric Project,
Colombia
Earthquake-resistant design of concrete structures at the La Vueltosa Hydroelectric Project,
Venezuela
1982-90 Sacramento District Corps of Engineers
Seismic Evaluation of Folsom Dam
1982-85 Woodward-Clyde Consultants, San Francisco, California
Evaluation of landslide stability and safety of Tablachaca Dam, Peru
1984-85 Hidroservice, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Earthquake analysis and design of powerhouse, Duale Peripa Project, Ecuador
1984-85 Tippets-Abbet-McCarthy-Stratton (TAMS), New York
Evaluation of proposed blanket on spillway gates, Tarbela Dam Project, Pakistan
1984-85 Ben C. Gerwick, Inc., San Francisco, California
Earthquake safety of Wanapum Dam, Washington
1984-86 Dames and Moore, Los Angeles, California
Earthquake analysis and design of Pamo Dam, California
1984-86 Converse Consultants, San Francisco, California
Earthquake safety evaluation of Lake Hume and Scots Flat dams, California
1984-86 Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Walnut Creek, California
Earthquake safety evaluation of Old Aswan Dam and concrete structures at the project, Egypt
1985-87 Sacramento District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Earthquake safety evaluation of Englebright Dam, California
1986-90 ACRES International Co., Toronto, Canada
Safety assessment of existing dams for earthquake conditions
1987-93 Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, California
Seismic safety evaluation of dams and intake towers
1987-89 Harza Engineering Co., Chicago, Illinois
Seismic safety evaluation of Old Aswan Dam, Egypt
1988 Faye Bernstein and Associates, San Francisco, California
Earthquake analysis of tanks
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1990-93 East Bay Municipal Utility District, Oakland, California
Seismic safety evaluation of Pardee Dam and Jackson Creek Spillway
1990-93 Central Nuclear de Almaraz, Madrid, Spain
Seismic safety evaluation of Valdecanas Dam
1990-93 Klohn-Crippen Consultants, Vancouver, Canada
Seismic safety evaluation of Cleveland and Seymour Falls Dams
Consulting (continued)
1993-94 Dames and Moore, Oakland
Seismic safety evaluation of Bull Run Dam No. 1 in Oregon
1993-96 Sinotech Foundation for Research and Development, Taiwan
Post-earthquake assessment of arch dams
1994- Division of Safety of Dams, Department of Water Resources, State of California
Consulting services for seismic safety of concrete dams
1995-97 E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puentos, La Coruna, Spain
Seismic safety evaluation of Bolarque Dam
1996-98 Pacific Rim Power, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Seismic design of Balambano and Karebe Dams in Indonesia
1996- Division of Safety of Dams, Department of Water Resources, State of California
Member, Consulting Board for Earthquake Analysis
1997-00 B.C. Hydro, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Seismic safety evaluation of Seven Mile Dam
1997-99 Portland General Electric, Portland, Oregon
Seismic safety evaluation of River Mill Dam, Oregon
1998-99 California Division of Safety of Dams
Safety evaluation of Milliken Dam, California
1998- Panama Canal Commission, Panama City
Seismic safety evaluation of spillways, dams, and locks at Panama Canal
2000 Hidroestudios, Bogota, Colombia
Seismic analysis and design of Miel I Dam
2001 Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Seismic safety evaluation of Lake Mathews Dam outlet tower
2001 Integral Ltda., Medellin, Colombia
Seismic safety evaluation of Guatape and Troneras outlet towers
2001 Acres International
Seismic upgrade of Casad Dam Intake Tower
2002-04 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District
Seismic analysis and design of modifications to Folsom Dam
2006 University of California, San Francisco Design & Construction
Seismic evaluation of Moffitt Hospital
2006- Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Seismic evaluation of Lake Alamnor Tower
2006- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Seismic evaluation of East Canyon Dam, Utah
2007- INTERTECHNE, Curitiba, Brazil
Seismic design of Palomina Dam, Dominican Republic
2007- Panama Canal Authority
Seismic evaluation of existing locks and design of new locks as part of the expansion project
of the Panama Canal
2007- San Diego County Water Authority, San Diego, California
Design of San Vicente Dam Raise
2007- EDELCA, Caracas, Venezuela
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Evaluation of Macagua, Guri, Caruachi and Tocomo Dams and power houses
Publications
Over 300 publications (including two books) in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
07/08

Edward G. Nawy

DR. EDWARD G. NAWY is a distinguished profession in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He has been active in the ACI and PCI since 1949 and is internationally recognized for his extensive work in the fields of reinforced and prestressed concrete, particularly in the areas of crack and deflection control. Dr. Nawy has published in excess of 160 papers in numerous technical journals worldwide and is the author of Reinforced Concrete: A Fundamental Approach, 4th Edition, A©2000, published by Prentice Hall, Fundamentals of High Performance Concrete, 2nd Edition, A©2000, published by John Wiley and Sons, and Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook, A©1998, published by CRC Press. He is the recipient of several major awards, including the Henry L. Kennedy Award of the ACI, honorary professorship, Nanjing Institute of Technology, and is Evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). He is licensed Professional Engineer in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California and Florida, and has been a consultant in structural engineering to agencies throughout the United States.

Ferdinand P. Beer

Ferdinand Pierre Beer (1915–2003) was a French mechanical engineer and university professor. He spent most of his career as a member of the faculty at Lehigh University, where he served as the chairman of the mechanics and mechanical engineering departments. His most significant contribution was the co-authorship of several textbooks in the field of mechanics, which have been widely cited and utilized in engineering education.
Biography
Early life

Beer was born in Binic, France in 1915.[1][2] He received a Masters of Science degree from the Sorbonne and conducted post-graduate work at Brown University. From the University of Geneva in Switzerland, he earned a mathematics license in 1935 and a Doctor of Science degree in 1937.[1] Beer served in the French Army during the Second World War before moving to the United States and took a job at Williams College. He remained there for four years, where taught as part of the school's collaborative arts/engineering program with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]
Career at Lehigh University

In 1947, he arrived at Lehigh University, where he taught for 37 years.[3] When a department of mechanics was formed in 1957, Beer was named its first chairman. In 1968, Beer became the chairman of the Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Department after the two separate fields were merged into one department. He served in that capacity until 1977. In 1970, Beer was named the chairman of the newly formed University Forum, which was composed of 125 students and faculty members with the goal of promoting discussion between the two bodies. Lehigh professor Fazil Erdogan said that, while "at other universities around the country, students were rioting and conducting sit-ins ... [Beer] gained the confidence of the students. He had a calming effect on students and, in this critical time, he offered a not inconsiderable service to Lehigh."

Alongside Lehigh professor E. Russell Johnston, Jr., Beer co-wrote three bestselling engineering textbooks: Vector Mechanics for Engineers, Mechanics of Materials, and Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics, which won the 1976 Printing Industries of America Graphic Arts Award. He also authored numerous articles published in technical journals.
Awards and research

In 1974, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Middle Atlantic chapter awarded him the Western Electric Fund Award for engineering education. The Mechanics Division of the Science Society, in 1980, awarded him its Distinguished Educator Award. Beer's research studied the application of random loads to mechanical systems. His work in this field included support by Boeing, NASA, the Chemical Corps of the U.S. Army, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Federal Civil Defense Administration.

Beer was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). He was also a member of the ASEE and served as its mechanics division chairman and Middle Atlantic chapter chairman.

Beer was married to Vivienne C.M. Beer who died before him. Together they had two daughters, Marguerite V. Schaeffer and Dr. Michelle C.M. Beer.[1] He died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on April 30, 2003 at the age of 87.[1] It was partly in his honor that the ASEE named the Ferdinand P. Beer and E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Educator Awards.[4]
Published works

F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston Jr., J.T. DeWolf, Mechanics of Materials, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1981, ISBN 0071210601.
F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston Jr., et al., Vector Mechanics for Engineers, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0072931108.
F.P. Beer, E.R. Johnston Jr., et al., Mechanics for Engineers: Statics and Dynamics, New York: McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0070045844.

Stephen Timoshenko

Stephen P. Timoshenko (Ukrainian: Степан Прокопович Тимошенко, Russian: Степан Прокофьевич Тимошенко, December 22, 1878 – May 29, 1972), was a Ukrainian American[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] engineer who is reputed to be the father of modern engineering mechanics. He was a founding member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He wrote many of the seminal works in the areas of engineering mechanics, elasticity and strength of materials, many of which are still widely used today.
Biography

Timoshenko was born in the village of Shpotivka in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire (now located in Sumy Oblast of Ukraine). He studied at a "real school"[clarification needed] in Romny, Poltava Governorate (now in Sumy Oblast) from 1889 to 1896. In Romny his schoolmate and friend was future famous semiconductor physicist Abram Ioffe. Timoshenko continued his education towards a university degree at the St Petersburg Institute of engineers Ways of Communication. After graduating in 1901, he stayed on teaching in this same institution from 1901 to 1903 and then worked at the Saint Petersburg Polytechnical Institute under Viktor Kyrpychov 1903–1906. In 1905 he was sent for one year to the University of Göttingen where he worked under Ludwig Prandtl.

In the fall of 1906 he was appointed to the Chair of Strengths of Materials at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. The return to his native Ukraine turned out to be an important part of his career and also influenced his future personal life. From 1907 to 1911 as a professor at the Polytechnic Institute he did research in the earlier variant of the Finite Element Method of elastic calculations, the so called Rayleigh method. During those years he also pioneered work on buckling, and published the first version of his famous Strength of materials textbook. He was elected dean of the Division of Structural Engineering in 1909.

In 1911 he signed a protest against Minister for Education Kasso and was fired from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute. In 1911 he was awarded the D. I. Zhuravski prize of the St.Petersburg Ways of Communication Institute that helped him survive after losing his job. He went to St Petersburg where he worked as a lecturer and then a Professor in the Electrotechnical Institute and the St Petersburg Institute of the Railways (1911–1917). During that time he developed the theory of elasticity and the theory of beam deflection, and continued to study buckling. In 1918 he returned to Kiev and assisted Vladimir Vernadsky in establishing the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences – the oldest academy among the Soviet republics other than Russia.

After the Armed Forces of South Russia of general Denikin had taken Kiev in 1919, Timoshenko moved from Kiev to Rostov-on-Don. After travel via Novorossiysk, Crimea and Constantinople to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he arrived to Zagreb, where he got professorship at the Zagreb Polytechnic Institute. In 1920, during the brief takeover of Kiev by the Polish army, Timoshenko travelled to Kiev, reunited with his family and returned with his family to Zagreb.

He is remembered for delivering lectures in Russian while using as many words in Croatian as he could; the students were able to understand him well.
United States

In 1922 Timoshenko moved to the United States where he worked for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation from 1923 to 1927, after which he became a faculty professor in the University of Michigan where he created the first bachelor's and doctoral programs in engineering mechanics. His textbooks have been published in 36 languages. His first textbooks and papers were written in Russian; later in his life, he published mostly in English. From 1936 onward he was a professor at Stanford University.

In 1957 ASME established a medal named after Stephen Timoshenko; he became its first recipient. The Timoshenko Medal honors Stephen P. Timoshenko as the world-renowned authority in the field of mechanical engineering and it commemorates his contributions as author and teacher. The Timoshenko Medal is given annually for distinguished contributions in applied mechanics.

In addition to his textbooks, Timoshenko wrote two other books, Engineering Education in Russia and As I Remember, the latter an autobiography first published in Russian in 1963 with its English translation appearing in 1968.

In 1960 he moved to Wuppertal (Western Germany) to be with his daughter. He died in 1972 and his ashes are buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo Alto, California.
List of Timoshenko's doctoral students in the U.S.A.

University of Michigan

Coates, W. M., (1929)
Donnell, L. H., (1930)
Billevicz, V., (1931)
Everett, F. L., (1931)
Frocht, M. M., (1931)
Goodier, J. N., (1931)
Brandeberry, J. B., (1932)
MacCullough, G. H., (1932)
Jamieson, J., (1933)
Taylor, W. H., (1933)
Verse, G. L., (1933)
Vesselowsky, S. T., (1933)
Weibel, E. E., (1933)
Jakkula, A. A., (1934)
Maugh, L. C., (1934)
Schoonover, R. H., (1934)
Way, S., (1934)
Wojtaszak, I. A., (1934)
Allan, G. W. C., (1935)
Horger, O. J., (1935)
Maulbetsch, J. L., (1935)
Miles, A. J., (1935)
Young, D. H., (1935)
Anderson, C. G., (1936)
Fox, E. N., (1936)
Hetenyi, M. I., (1936)
Hogan, M. B., (1936)
Marin, J., (1936)
Zahorski, A. T., (1937)

Stanford University

Bergman, E. O., (1938)
Kurzweil, A. C., (1940)
Lee, E. H., (1940)
Huang, Y. S., (1941)
Wang, T. K., (1941)
Weber, H. S., (1941)
Hoff, N. J., (1942)
Popov, E. P., (1946)
Chilton, E. G., (1947)

Publications

Applied Elasticity, with J. M. Lessells, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1925
Vibration Problems in Engineering, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1st Ed. 1928, 2nd Ed. 1937, 3rd Ed. 1955 (with D. H. Young)
Strength of Materials, Part I, Elementary Theory and Problems, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1st Ed. 1930, 2nd Ed. 1940, 3rd Ed. 1955
Strength of Materials, Part II, Advanced Theory and Problems, D. Van Nostrand Company, 1st Ed. 1930, 2nd E

RE: Great Structural Engineers - david-smith - 04-30-2012

Henry Degenkolb

Henry Degenkolb is one of the pillars of the structural engineering profession. He practiced his trade in San Francisco for more than 50 years, consulting on most of the major seismic safety issues of his time and gaining an international reputation for making buildings structurally safer and public policies and building codes stronger.

To most individuals, earthquakes are frightening events, but to Degenkolb, they were his laboratory. He studied them, visited them, and designed buildings "as if an earthquake would occur in the next five years. When one thinks that way," it sure stiffens up your back," he told one interviewer.

After the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, California legislators started looking for resistive designs and passed statewide legislation for the construction of public schools. It was in this environment that Degenkolb arrived on the scene from Peoria, Illinois graduating in civil engineering from UC Berkeley in 1936. He helped design buildings for the Golden Gate International Exposition of 1939-40 and joined the firm of John Gould, the chief structural engineer for the exposition company. After 10 years he became a partner in the firm and its name changed to Gould and Degenkolb. When John Gould died in 1961, the firm became H. J. Degenkolb Associates, Engineers, which still exists today with nearly 150 employees who share in the success as well as the ownership of the company.

Unique among his peers, Degenkolb was the first to understand the need for an interdisciplinary approach that would encompass geophysics as well as the engineering sciences. As a result, he became a member of the Seismological Society of America in 1947, long before others in his field saw the value of studying this discipline.

In 1952 he started visiting the site of earthquakes around the world to gain a personal understanding of building design failures and human loss.

Degenkolb was often considered a "consultant's consultant." He served as an advisor to local, regional and national governments, including serving on the President's Task Force on Earthquake Hazards Reduction in 1970, the California Seismic Safety Commission from '69 to '74, and numerous professional organizations on earthquake and structural engineering. He, helped organize the First World Conference on Earthquake Engineering for the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

He wrote many papers and articles and received several professional awards and honors, including the American Society of Civil Engineers Ernest E. Howard Award in 1967 for preeminence in earthquake engineering.

Henry Degenkolb was married to Anna Alma Nygren and they had five children. He died in December 1989.

Ruth Gordon

When Ruth Gordon chained herself to the Pacific Stock Exchange on August 26, 1980, she was worried. Not that she'd be arrested or labeled an upstart. A woman in a traditionally male profession, she'd heard that kind of name-calling before. But she was concerned that a banner her fellow protesters had hung on the building's façade was blocking both of the building's exits. An ERA advocate, yes, but first she was an engineer and engineers are forever concerned for the safety of individuals inside buildings.

But Gordon was more than just an engineer. She was a pioneer. She was one of just two female engineers in her Stanford class of 1948 and the only woman to graduate in civil engineering and earn a master's in structures. Despite her credentials, she would often use just her initials to gain a job interview. Her credentials finally caught the eye of the late Isador Thompson a San Francisco structural engineer who "didn't care if you were green," Gordon reported later. That was in 1950.

Over the next 35 years, Gordon rose to the top of her profession and became the first woman Structural Engineer in California in 1959; the first woman member of SEAONC in 1953, the first woman president of the Bay Area Engineering Council in 1982-83, the first female to receive Tau Beta Pi's Eminent Engineer Award (1995), and many other awards and recognitions. She lectured frequently to young women on the importance of studying science and math and was a key spokesperson for the profession on earthquake safety and protection. She has been profiled in The Women's Book of World Records and Achievements.

From 1959 through 1984, Gordon was employed by the Office of the State Architect/Structural Safety Section, for which she monitored the construction of all hospital and public school buildings in the nine-county area from Mendocino to Monterey. In 1984 she established Pegasus Engineering, Inc., a consulting engineering firm. In 1988 she completed an earthquake survivability study of 42 hospitals for the California Office of Statewide Hospital Planning and Development. Following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, she performed postearthquake evaluations of 14 multistory buildings at San Francisco General Hospital and 12 buildings at the San Francisco Kaiser Hospital.

An avid sailor, Gordon purchased a 26-foot sloop in 1950 with her husband, Michael Schnapp. When he was called to duty in the Korean War, Gordon and three friends formed the an all-female racing team. The Madeleine didn't win the first race, but did sail past two all-male crews. Gordon went on to become the recipient of the highest honor of the Pacific Inter-Club Yachting Association: the 2001 Yachtsman of the Year.

James M. Gere

James M. Gere, civil engineer and founder of Stanford's Blume Earthquake Engineering Center
Gere was known for his outgoing manner, his teaching in and out of the classroom, his athleticism and his skill in civil engineering. "He was, without a doubt, the finest engineer and professor and mentor and adviser any student or faculty member ever had, period," said Haresh Shah, a student of Gere's who became a Stanford professor of engineering and retired in 1998.

Gere and Shah founded the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center in 1974, and they co-directed it until 1986. Gere also became the founding head in 1980 of the Stanford Committee on Earthquake Preparedness, which urged campus members to brace and strengthen office equipment, furniture and other things that could pose a hazard if the ground shook.

Gere contributed to civil engineering and earthquake research with a stream of articles and technical papers. He wrote nine books on engineering, and mathematical theory and applications. He co-authored a well-known text, Mechanics of Materials, in 1972 and was the sole author of later editions. Shah called this "the most popular book used by everyone in the world who is a mechanical or civil engineer."

Gere was not only a pioneer on paper—he and Shah were among the first foreigners to travel in 1980 to Tangshan, China, to study the devastating aftermath left by the major earthquake that shook the region in 1976.

Gere came to Stanford as a doctoral student in 1952, when he was awarded a National Science Foundation fellowship. The university offered him a faculty spot in 1954, after he completed his doctorate in applied mechanics, and Gere began his 34-year career of engaging his students and pioneering earthquake technology. From 1960 to 1970, he was associate dean of the School of Engineering, and from 1967 to 1972, he served as chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering. He retired from Stanford in 1988.

Gere's track record at Stanford wasn't just academic, but literal—he was an avid runner, and he helped to form a running group for university members, affectionately called "The Angell

Field Ancients," because Gere and his founding colleagues liked to poke fun at their age. The group gained popularity over the years, and graduate students, faculty and staff joined the pack. He tackled the Boston Marathon in 1973, at age 48, finishing in three hours and 13 minutes.

He also hiked frequently, sometimes 50 miles a day, and regularly visited Yosemite and the Grand Canyon national parks. He took students, colleagues and loved ones out into the wilderness and shared his knowledge of geology and the outdoors. Shah recalls that some people called Gere "the ranger," because he hiked skillfully and spouted facts with a park ranger's acumen, often wearing a brimmed ranger hat. His wanderlust and boundless energy took him to Mount Everest in 1986, where he and Shah hiked to the base camp.

Gere was born June 14, 1925, in Syracuse, N.Y. He joined the Army Air Corps at 17 and worked as a bombsight mechanic for three years. He earned undergraduate and master's degrees in civil engineering from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1949 and 1951, respectively. He worked as an instructor and later as a research associate for Rensselaer between 1949 and 1952.

Gere married his high school sweetheart, Janice Platt, in June 1946, and they were married 61 years at the time of his death.

He is survived by his wife and their three children: daughter Susan and sons William and David; grandchildren Clifford and Rachel Gere of Hollister and Dewitt Durham of Palo Alto; and his brothers Frederick of Roseville and William of Cheshire.

Services will be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, 1985 Louis Road, at Embarcadero Road, where Gere and his wife became members in 1952 and where Gere was deacon in the 1960s.

Hayley Rutger is a science-writing intern at the Stanford News Service.

Donald P. Coduto

Donald P. Coduto is currently a professor of geotechnical engineering and chair of the Civil Engineering Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He earned a BS in civil engineering from California Stat Polytechnic University, Pomona, an MS in geotechnical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from Claremont Graduate University. He is an ASCE Fellow, a licensed civil engineer and a licensed geotechnical engineer, and has worked on a variety of geotechnical projects for both private and public sector clients.

R. C. Hibbeler

Russ Hibbeler graduated from the University of Illinois-Urbana with a B.S. in Civil Engineering (major in structures) and an M.S. in Nuclear Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Northwestern University. Hibbeler's professional experience includes postdoctoral work in reactor safety and analysis at Argonne National Laboratory, and structural work at Chicago Bridge and Iron, Sargent and Lundy, Tucson. He has practiced engineering in Ohio, New York, and Louisiana. He has taught at the University of Illinois-Urbana, Youngstown State University, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Union College. Hibbeler currently teaches at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

Tom Paulay

Emeritus Professor Tom Paulay
On Friday 26th June New Zealand lost one of its most eminent structural engineers
with the death of Professor Tom Paulay. During his 28 years with the Department of
Civil Engineering Tom had a profound world-wide influence on the design of
engineering structures to resist earthquake excitation. His work has also been a major
contributor to the international standing of the Department of Civil Engineering in the
field of earthquake engineering.
Tom was born in Sopron, Hungary, on the 26th May 1923 and he was initially
destined for a life in the Royal Hungarian Army. After attending a boarding school for
military cadets in Sopron he entered the Royal Hungarian Military Academy in Budapest.
On graduation he was posted as a second lieutenant to the same cavalry regiment in
which his father served for many years.
In 1944 he faced the advancing Russian army in the Prypet Marshes in what was
then known as Eastern Poland. At the age of 21, after mounting casualties, he found
himself in command of 278 men and 308 horses. Much action and wounds received in
Poland, and later in Hungary, resulted in many months spent in various military hospitals
and left him somewhat deaf. This partial deafness is remembered by both students and
colleagues.
After he was discharged from the army in 1946 he, with many other returned
servicemen, joined the 300 students in the first year of civil engineering at the Technical
University of Budapest. Tom described lectures in the bombed out ruins of the university
with the lecturers writing on the blackboards whilst wearing knitted gloves and two
raincoats to keep out the cold. The student accommodation was no warmer. The harsh
economic conditions, and the reduced immediate demand for engineers, resulted in a 75%
failure rate in the first year. In 1948, after Stalin and the Red Army imposed total control
over Hungarian society, Tom was one of the few students to escape from Hungary to
Austria and West Germany.
In West Germany he enrolled at the Technical University of Munich, which, after
the allied bombing during the war, was in an even worse state that the Technical
University of Budapest. The lack of financial resources soon terminated his attempt to
continue his studies in civil engineering. In November 1948 Tom returned to Austria to
see the girl that he had met on his initial escape from Hungary. One year later Tom and
Herta were married. Tom spent 3 years in Germany as a stateless refugee working with a
charitable organization.
In 1951 Tom, Herta and daughter Dorothy were granted a scholarship by a group
of Catholic students at Victoria University in Wellington to come to New Zealand. On
September 11 1951 Tom started working as a maintenance labourer in Oamaru. Tom
described his job as a labourer as a wonderful educational experience. Although he was
already learning English, this was where he was first exposed to the rich Kiwi vocabulary
of His Majesty’s English, as practised by the railway labourers. Fifty years to the day
they went back to Oamaru to celebrate but the event was somewhat overtaken by other
happenings in New York.
Tom resumed his studies in civil engineering as a third year student in 1952 at the
University of Canterbury under the guidance of Professor Harry Hopkins. Structural
engineering, and particularly design, interested him most in his studies. It was noted that
the final 14 day examination project chosen by Tom was to design a reinforced concrete
shell roof, a subject not covered in the syllabus for civil engineering. On completing his
studies in 1954 Tom joined the consulting engineering practice of Don Bruce-Smith
where he worked for the next eight years designing many reinforced concrete buildings.
In 1961 he was invited by Harry Hopkins to apply for a lecturer position in the
Department of Civil Engineering to teach structural design. Tom initially told his classes
that the courses would be taught in Hungarian but with a very strong New Zealand accent.
Tom’s afternoon 3 hour design classes started with a one to one and half hour lecture,
followed by time in the drawing office. The lectures were intense, a 4 sheets of finely
written foolscap notes could be taken during that time. The afternoons were usually an
hour to an hour and a half longer than scheduled and sometimes rolled over to Saturdays
as well. Tom is remembered for his enthusiasm and practical knowledge of structural
design, his interest in the welfare of the students and the injection of recent research
findings and ideas. This helped build up an interest in seismic engineering and it had a
major influence on design practice in New Zealand. Even 20 years after he retired some
of the final year design afternoons are still referred to as ‘the Tom Paulay afternoons’.
Tom quickly picked up the research aspects of structural engineering and during
his time he supervised and co-supervised 16 Ph.D students and 26 M.E students. In
1969 Tom completed his own Ph.D on the Coupling of Shear-Walls under the
supervision of Harry Hopkins. His interest in the behaviour of structural walls continued
for many years and his concept of diagonally reinforced coupling beams has become a
standard solution for obtaining a good ductile structure.
He also became interested in the concepts of Capacity Design and his work in
using the analogy of a chain where the design chose the selected weak ductile link,
usually the beams in a multi-storey frames, where the ductile behaviour would take place
in a major earthquake and all other links, the columns, joints and foundations, would be
sufficiently strong that only the chosen members would yield. The designer would tell the
building how to deform. This concept of the weak beam-strong column became the
design norm for buildings in New Zealand and many other earthquake prone countries.
His 1975 book with Professor Bob Park “Reinforced Concrete Structures’ became the
seminal work on capacity design. Tom also recognised the power of modern computer
analysis to extend the work in the laboratory and many M.E. students over the next few
years carried out a large amount of research to determine the over-strength factors
required to ensure that undesirable soft-storey failures would not occur in a major
earthquake. His work on structural walls resulted in the book “Design of Reinforced
Concrete and Masonry Buildings” in 1992 with Professor Nigel Priestley again brought
the latest research findings into the design world. Tom was promoted with a Personal
Chair in Civil Engineering in 1975 as recognition of his contribution to research and
teaching.
Tom retired from the Department of Civil Engineering in January1989 and
became an Emeritus Professor. He continued his research interests and to help supervise
post-graduate students, being present in the department for most afternoons until about
2006. Herta’s declining health meant that he spent more time at home. Herta’s death in
2007 hit Tom very hard. However, he still kept in touch with his former colleagues in the
department and always had that cheerful outlook that was part of Tom.
Tom was involved with the New Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineers and
was President for a term. He served on many New Zealand Building Code committees
and also on many American Concrete Institute committees. He was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society and served as President of the International Association for earthquake
Engineering from 1992 to 1996. He received an OBE in 1986 and he has Honorary
Doctorates from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich in 1988, the Technical
University of Budapest in 1990, the Technical University of Bucharest in 1996 and the
National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina in 1999. He has received too many
awards and honours to list here.
At the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering in Beijing in October
2008 Tom was named as one the Legends in Earthquake Engineering. Being included as
one of the greatest names in earthquake engineering was a great honour for Tom and
earthquake engineering in New Zealand.
Tom is survived by his daughters Dorothy and Esther and son Gregory, and six
grand-children. He will be very much missed by the many thousand civil engineers in
New Zealand and overseas who have benefited from his great teaching. The effects of his
work in design approaches in earthquake engineering will continue long into the future.
His colleagues in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering will also
miss his cheery smile and that sense of humour which seemed to infect all around him.
Athol Carr

RE: Great Structural Engineers - david-smith - 07-26-2012

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RE: Great Structural Engineers - david-smith - 07-26-2012

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