George Zino Voyiadjis is an American
civil engineer
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. He has been on the faculty of
Louisiana State University
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in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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, since 1980, and is Boyd Professor and Bingham C. Stewart Distinguished Professor in its department of civil and environmental engineering. He specializes in
mechanics of materials
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and
damage mechanics, and the numerical modeling thereof.
Education
Voyiadjis took a
B.Sc.
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in
civil engineering
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from
Ain Shams University
Ain Shams University ( ar, جامعة عين شمس) is a public university located in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 1950, the university provides education at the undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels.
History
Ain Shams University was fou ...
in
Cairo
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in 1969, an
M.Sc.
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in civil engineering from
California Institute of Technology in
Pasadena
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Its ...
in 1970, and a
D.Eng.Sc. in
engineering mechanics from
Columbia University
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in
New York
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* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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in 1973.
Awards
In 2022, Voyiadjis was awarded the Nadia Medal by the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
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.
Books
* with Peter Issa Kattan: ''Advances in Damage Mechanics: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites''. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999. ; second edition 2006.
* with Peter Issa Kattan: ''Damage Mechanics with Finite Elements: Practical Applications with Computer Tools''. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 2001. .
* with Peter Issa Kattan: ''Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB''. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 2005 .
* with Peter Issa Kattan: ''Damage Mechanics''. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2005. .
* with Chung R. Song: ''The Coupled Theory of Mixtures in Geomechanics with Applications'', 2006. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer.
* with Pawel Woelke: ''Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells'', 2008. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. .
* with Mohammadreza Yaghoobi: ''Size Effects in Plasticity'', 2019. London; San Diego, CA: Elsevier. .
* with Yooseob Song: ''Gradient-enhanced Continuum Plasticity: Theories, Experiments and Numerical Methods'', 2020. Amsterdam: Elsevier. .
References
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Living people
1946 births
Louisiana State University faculty
California Institute of Technology alumni
Ain Shams University alumni
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni