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Dr. Zdenĕk Bažant
received his Ph.D. in
Engineering Mechanics in 1963 from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences,
Prague
. He joined
Northwestern
University
in 1969, became Professor in 1973, and served as the Director of Center
for Geomaterials from 1981 to 1987. Since
1990, Dr. Bažant has been the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil
Engineering and Materials Science. Beginning 2002 Professor Bažant has
also been the McCormick School Professor.
Dr. Bažant’s research areas include structural engineering,
concrete, geomaterials, facture, stability, creep damage in elastic
behavior. He has authored over
430 journal articles and six books including most recently the Stability
of Structures: Elastic,
Inelastic, Fracture and Damage Theories (Oxford University Press) and Inelastic
Analysis of Structures (J. Wiley & Sons).
Dr. Bažant is a registered Structural Engineer in
Illinois
. His honors and awards are numerous and most recently include the Lifetime
Achievement Award from the ASCE Illinois Structural Engineering
Section (2003), elected Member of the National Academy of Sciences,
Washington, D.C. (2002), Foreign Member, Academia Di Scienze e Lettere
– Istituto Lombardo, Milan Italy (2002), elected Member of the
National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C. (1996) and five
honorary doctorates from Universities in Colorado, Prague, Karlsruhe,
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