Stephen Harry Crandall (December 2, 1920 – October 29, 2013) was a professor of
mechanical engineering at
MIT. He earned his master's degree in engineering at
Stevens Institute of Technology in
Hoboken, New Jersey and his Ph.D. from MIT. He joined the MIT faculty in 1946 and taught dynamics and strength of materials until his retirement in 1991. He was a prolific author of texts in
solid mechanics, numerical methods, and
random vibration In mechanical engineering, random vibration is motion which is non-deterministic, meaning that future behavior cannot be precisely predicted. The randomness is a characteristic of the excitation or input, not the mode shapes or natural frequencies. ...
. His mentor at MIT was
J. P. Den Hartog.
He was awarded the
Timoshenko Medal in 1990 "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993.
References
Publications
Crandall, Stephen H., Dahl, Norman C. -Editors, An Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1959)
Crandall, Stephen H., Engineering Analysis. A Survey of Numerical Procedures, , (1956)
Crandall, Stephen H., Random Vibration, MIT PRESS, , (1959)
External links
Acceptance speech for Timoshenko medal
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1920 births
2013 deaths
Crandall, S. H.
Crandall, S. H.
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering