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Emeritus Professor of Structural Mechanics
University of Hawaii
Biography:
After years of battling cancer, Rudolph Szilard passed away on January 20, 2009. He was born on August 26, 1921 in Hungary, immigrated to the United States in 1949 and became a citizen in 1954. He had been a Colorado Springs resident for the last 21 years. Rudolph Szilard received his education in Hungary, including his engineering degree, and his doctorate in structural mechanics from the University of Stuttgart. His academic career spanned many decades, during which he taught at various universities in the USA and Germany. He was the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the Senior Fellowship Award by the A. von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He was also the author of eight books on structural mechanics.
Selected Publications:
Books:
R. Szilard, Theory and Analysis of Plates. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974
Rudolph Szilard, Theories and Applications of Plate Analysis, John Wiley and Sons, 2004, 1024 pages
Journal Articles:
R. Szilard and A. West, “Finite curved shell elements and consistent mass matrices for static and dynamic analysis of aerospace structures, Air Force Flight Dynamics Lab Report AFFDL-TR-66-194, 1966
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