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Dr. Michael F. Card (1937 - 2013)

Obituary (Published in Virginia Gazette from Nov. 13 to Dec. 12, 2013)
(See: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/vagazette/obituary.aspx?pid=167972526#sthash.6ramRQZ4.dpuf )
“Dr. Michael Fawcett Card, 76, of Williamsburg, passed away peacefully after a lengthy illness on November 8, 2013. Born in Seattle, Washington, Card earned a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also received a masters and PhD from Virginia Tech. He retired in 1995 after 37 years of service at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, where he served as Chief Scientist. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Chief of the Structural Mechanics Division. From 1988 to 1989 he worked at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama on the space shuttle as assistant to the Director to Marshall Structures and Dynamics Laboratory. During his career he was the author of more than 30 papers on structural mechanics. Card loved music, reading, and the movies.”


Selected Publications:

Anderson, M. S. and Card, M. F., “Buckling of Ring-Stiffened Cylinders Under a Pure Bending Moment and a Nonuniform Temperature Distribution,” NASA TN D-1513, 1962.

Card, M.F., “Preliminary results of compression tests on cylinders with eccentric longitudinal stiffeners”, NASA TM X-1004, 1964

Block, D.L., Card, M.F. and Mikulas, M.M., "Buckling of Eccentricelly Stiffened Orthotropic Cylinders", NASA TN D-2960, August,1965.

Card, M.F. and Jones, R.M., "Experimental and Theoretical Results for Bucklinq of Eccentrically Stiffened Cylinders", NASA TND-3639, October, 1966.

Michael F. Card (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Bending tests of large-diameter stiffened cylinders susceptible to general instability”, NASA TN D-2200, 1964

Michael F. Card (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Experiments to Determine Elastic Moduli for Filament-Wound Cylinders”, NASA Technical Note TN D-3110, November 1964
DTIC Accession Number: ADA310372, Handle / proxy Url : http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA310372

J. Peterson and M.F. Card, “Investigation of the buckling strength of corrugated webs in shear”, NASA TN D-424, 1966

Michael F. Card (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Experiments to Determine the Strength of Filament-Wound Cylinders Loaded in Axial Compression”, NASA Technical Note D-3522, August 1966,
DTIC Accession Number: ADA307211, Handle / proxy Url : http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA307211

M.F. Card, The sensitivity of buckling of axially compressed fibre-reinforced cylindrical shells to small geometric imperfections, NASA TMX-61914 (1969)

Chang, L. K. & Card, M. F. (1970). Thermal buckling of stiffened cylindrical shells. Proceeding of the AIAA/ASME 11th structures, Structural Dynamics, and Material Conference, pp. 260-272.

L. K. Chang and Michael F. Card (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Thermal Buckling Analysis for Stiffened Orthotropic Cylindrical Shells” (Structural analysis of thermal buckling of orthotropic, multilayered, stiffened cylindrical shell using finite differences and determinant plotting or modal iteration), NASA Technical Note TN D-6332, April 1971
Accession Number: ADA309606, Handle / proxy Url : http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA309606

Wall, Jr., L. D., and Card, M. F., Torsional Shear Strength of Filament-Wound Glass-Epoxy Tubes, NASA TN D-6140, August 1971.

Mikulas, Martin M., Bush, Harold G., and Card, Michael F., “Structural Stiffness, Strength and Dynamics Characteristics of Large Tetrahedral Space Truss Structures,” NASA TMX-74001, March, 1977.

Michael F. Card and James H. Starnes, Jr. (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Current research in composite structures at NASA’s Langley Research Center”, Sadhana, Vol. 11, Nos. 3-4, 1987, pp. 277-298, doi: 10.1007/BF02811358

Theodore F. Johnson and Michael F. Card (NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, USA), “Effects of stiffening and mechanical load on thermal buckling of stiffened cylindrical shells”, 36th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics & Materials Conference. Vol. 2, pp. 1380-1388. 1995

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