Thomas Joseph Robert Hughes (born 1943) is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics and currently holds the Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair (III) at the Oden Institute at

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. Hughes has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company. A leading expert in

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, Hughes has received numerous academic distinctions and awards for his work. He is a research fellow of the

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, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), the

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, and has been elected as a foreign member of

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. He is a founder and past President of USACM and IACM, and past chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division of ASME.

Career

Hughes began his career as a mechanical design engineer at

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, subsequently joining

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as a research and development engineer. After receiving his Ph.D. from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, he joined the

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faculty, eventually moving to

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. He then moved to

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before joining The University of Texas at Austin. At Stanford, he served as chairman of the Division of Applied Mechanics, chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and chairman of the Division of Mechanics and Computation, where Hughes occupied the Mary and Gordon Crary Chair of Engineering. While at Stanford, he served as a member of International Advisory Committee,

ICTACEM The International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics (ICTACEM) is a professional organization for the field of Engineering. The ICTACEM was founded by (Late) Prof. P.K. Sinha of Department of Aerospace ...

(2001). Hughes has developed computational methods for understanding solid, structural and fluid mechanics. He recently has applied this expertise to develop customized models of blood flow for patients using their individual imaging records such as CT scans and

MRI Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to form pictures of the anatomy and the physiological processes of the body. MRI scanners use strong magnetic fields, magnetic field gradients, and radio waves ...

s. Hughes was elected to the

in 1995 for contributions to the development of finite element methods for solid-structural and fluid mechanics.

Books

* Thomas J. R. Hughes and

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, A Short Course in Fluid Mechanics, Mathematics lecture series, v. 6, Boston: Publish or Perish, 1976. * Thomas J. R. Hughes, D. Gartling, Robert L. Spilker, Applied Mechanics Division, Vol. 44: New Concepts in Finite Element Analysis,

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, 1981. * Thomas J. R. Hughes, A. Pifko, A. Jay, Applied Mechanics Division, Vol. 48: Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Plates and Shells,

, 1981. * Thomas J. R. Hughes, Stress-point algorithm for a pressure-sensitive multiple-yield-surface plasticity theory, Unknown Binding, Available from National Technical Information Service, 1982. * Computational methods for transient analysis, edited by Ted Belytschko and Thomas J.R. Hughes, Computational methods in mechanics, Volume 1: Mechanics and mathematical methods, New York: Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1983. * Thomas J. R. Hughes and Englewood Cliffs, The finite element method: linear static and dynamic finite element analysis, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1987), 1985. * Thomas J. R. Hughes,

Ernest Hinton Ernest Hinton (16 March 1946 – 18 November 1999) was a British civil engineer and engineering professor. He was born in Liverpool, England in 1946 and was educated at University of Wales Swansea. After receiving the BSc (1967), MSc (1968) and P ...

. Finite Element Methods for Plate and Shell Structures, Volume 1: Element Technology, Pineridge Press Ltd, 1986. * Thomas J. R. Hughes, Ernest Hinton. Finite Element Methods for Plate and Shell Structures, Volume 2: Formulation and Algorithms, Pineridge Press Ltd, 1986. * Jerrold E. Marsden and Thomas J. R. Hughes, Mathematical Foundations of Elasticity, Dover Publications, 1994. * J.C. Simo and T.J.R. Hughes, Interdisciplinary applied mathematics, Volume 7: Computational inelasticity, New York: Springer, 1998. * Thomas J. R. Hughes
The Finite Element Method: Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis
Dover Publications, 2000. * Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 1: Fundamentals, Wiley, 2004. * Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 2: Solids and Structures, Wiley, 2004. * Erwin Stein, René de Borst, Thomas J.R. Hughes, Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Volume 3: Fluids, Wiley, 2004. * J. Austin Cottrell, Thomas J. R. Hughes,

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, Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA, Wiley, 2009.

Awards and honors

*Hughes has received several awards, including the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE, the Melville Medal from ASME, the Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the von Neumann Medal from USACM and the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM. * In 1995 he was elected a member of the

* In 1998 he was awarded the

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and in 2007 the

Timoshenko Medal The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as th ...

, both by

.
ASME Timoshenko Medal
' asme.org. Retrieved 9 January 2010. *In 2007 he was awarded an honorary degree by the

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, Italy. *In 2009 he was awarded an

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by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). *In 2011 he was elected a

Foreign Member of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics ...

. *On June 21, 2013, Professor T.J.R. Hughes has named Doctor Honoris Causa from Escuela Técnica Superior Engenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos (E.T.S.I.C.C.P), at University of A Coruña (U.D.C) - Spain, into the ambit of Civil Engineering for his contributions in computational mechanics. * In 2020 he was awarded the

Eringen Medal The A. C. Eringen Medal or Eringen Medal is an award given annually bthe Society of Engineering Science(SES) to an individual "in recognition of sustained outstanding achievements in Engineering Science". This award was established in 1976. The ...

of the Society of Engineering Science

Videos

* Together with the

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, he developed the vide
"Simulating Patient-specific Nanoparticulate Drug Delivery for the Treatment of Vulnerable Plaques"

References

External links

T.J.R. Hughes webpageT.J.R. Hughes Faculty, Directory Page, The University of Texas at Austin
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