Professor Zdeněk P. Bažant, Ph.D., S.E.
McCormick Institute Professor and
Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering and Material Science and Engineering
TECH 2145 Sheridan Rd #A135, +1 847 491 4025, z-bazant@northwestern.edu
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Member National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Austrian, Italian, Spanish and Czech national academies, Lombard Institute and European Academy (Salzburg)7 honorary doctorates (CTU Prague, U Karlsruhe, UC Boulder, Milan Polytechnic, INSA Lyon, TU Vienna, Ohio State); Honorary member of ASCE, ASME and American Concrete Institute (ACI)Timoshenko, Nadai & Warner Medals of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); von Karman, Newmark, Biot and Croes Medals, and Huber, Lifetime Achievement and TY Lin Awards of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Prager Medal of Society of Engineering Science (SES); and others. Past President of SES, IA-FraMCoS (founder) and IA ConCreep (founder). Past Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Engineerin Mechanics |
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| EDUCATION |
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C.E. ("Civil Engineer"), 1960, Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech RepublicPh.D., 1963, Engineering Mechanics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech RepublicPostgraduate Diploma, 1966, Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicDocent (habilitatis), 1967, Concrete Structures, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| REGISTRATION |
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Illinois Registered Structural Engineer (S.E.), since 1971 |
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| RESEARCH INTEREST |
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Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety, with emphasis on the mechanics of fracture, damage and creep, size effects and scaling, probabilistic mechanics, nano-mechanics, and hygrothermal effects, and with applications to concrete, fiber composites, tough ceramics, rocks, soils, bone, snow and sea ice. |
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