On this website page I take a very broad view of “shell buckling people”, since I include not only people who have contributed significantly directly to the field of shell buckling, but also people who have laid the foundations of mathematics and created the tools that are now so frequently used to do shell buckling analysis and linear or nonlinear, static or dynamic analysis of general structures of which shell structures are a subset. For example, famous people such as Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Laplace, Lagrange and Galelei are included because they created the mathematics essential for shell buckling research; Hill, Drucker, Prager, Lee, and Hodge are included because they were pioneers in the field of nonlinear behavior of metals; Halpin, Whitney and Tsai are included because they contributed mightily to the technology of laminated composite materials out of which so many modern light-weight shell structures are fabricated: Zienkiewicz, Belytschko, Hughes, Oden, and Felippa are included because their work on the nonlinear static and dynamic behavior of general structures is very broad and therefore encompasses the specific area of shell buckling.

Doubtless you will notice that many famous people in the specific field of shell buckling are still missing. Bear in mind that this is a work in progress. If you notice that individuals are missing and you have information on them, especially photographs, please email that to Dr. Bushnell.

Visitors to this web site may email your curriculum vitae.

I would feel honored if you would email to me, if you have not already done so, a close-up (head and shoulders) photograph of yourself with your CV or a summary of your CV including a link to a site that contains a list of your publications and perhaps other details about yourself.

Also, it would greatly benefit this website if you would write an informal description of yourself and your career that I would then introduce as a caption to go with the portrait of yourself in the “Shell Buckling People” slide show. Please see the caption for Dr. David Bushnell in the slide show as an example of this informal caption.

It would be easiest for me if you would send as three separate entities:

  1. Your portrait photograph in “jpg” or “jpeg” format.
  2. The text of your CV in “doc”, or “docx”, or (least preferred but acceptable) “pdf” format.
  3. The text of your informal portrait caption to appear in the “Shell Buckling People” slide show.

I want to include deceased famous “Shell Buckling Persons”, such as Professors Timoshenko, von Kármán, Koiter, Singer, Hoff, Babcock and any others of whom you can send me photographs and information. I would very much appreciate any help you can provide with this. Please see the “Shell Buckling People” slides/captions for Bo Almroth, Frank Brogan, and Professor Bernard Budiansky, for examples of how deceased “Shell Buckling People” are presented.

It would also greatly improve this website if you would send pictures of buckled shells or other pictures that pertain to shell buckling from work in the field by yourself and your colleagues. I would then include these in a slide show located on the “Other Buckling Photos” page of this website. Please include the names of links to the source of your pictures.

A portrait photograph of yourself is a very important part of your curriculum vitae. I may decide not to include your curriculum vitae on this website if it does not include that photograph. We “Shell Buckling People” want to see who our colleagues are!

If you have previously visited the “shellbuckling.com” website, in order to view the latest version of each screen in each of the various “slide shows” that I may have recently modified, you should first click on the “refresh” icon (small circular arrow) near the top of that screen. You should do this for every screen of every “slide show” that I may have recently modified as long as I continue to update the shellbuckling.com website by adding “slides” to the slide shows. It is especially important that you refresh each screen of the slide show associated with this “Shell Buckling People” page of the website.

The Curricula Vitae

Deceased

Living