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http://www.flowcontrolnetwork.com/containment/pipe/article/mit-research-could-help-predict-pipe-fractures-in-offshore-drilling
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Director, Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education:
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics, 1965, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Warsaw, Poland
S.M. in Engine Design, 1960, Warsaw Technical University, Warsaw, Poland
B.S. I took a unified program that led directly to the Master of Science.
MIT Service:
1983 to date: Professor of Applied Mechanics, Department of Ocean Engineering, MIT; currently the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Scientific & Professional Societies:
Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineering
International Society of DE
Honors & Awards:
Maximilian T. Huber Award for the best work in Mechanics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1974
Chairman of the Euromech Colloquium No. 121 on "Dynamics and Crushing of Plastic Structures", 1978
Chairman of the Summer School on "Dynamics of Plastic Structures", International Center for Mechanical Sciences, Udine, Italy, 1979
Polish Academy of Sciences award for the book "Design of Structures to Dynamic Loads", 1979
Co-chair, First International Symposium, "Structural Crashworthiness", UK, 1983
Co-chair, Second International Symposium, "Structural Failure", Cambridge, MA, 1988
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Senior US Scientist Award, 1988-1989
Co-chair, Third International Symposium, "Structural Crashworthiness and Failure", UK, 1993
Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and International Journal of Vehicle Design
Selected Publications Related to Buckling:
Wierzbicki T, Sinmao MV. A simplified model of Brazier effects in plastic bending of cylindrical tubes. Int J Pressure Vessels 1997;71(1):19-28
Wierzbicki T, Nurick GN. Large deformation of thin plates under localized impulsive loading. International Journal of Impact Engineering 1996;18: 899-918
Wierzbicki T, Bhat SU, Abramowicz W, Brodikin D. A two folding element model of progressive crushing of tubes. Int J Solid Struct 1992;29(24):3269-88
T. Wierzbicki, Crushing analysis of metal honeycombs. Int. J. Impact Engng 1, 157_174 (1983).
Wierzbicki T., Bhat S.U., “A Moving Hinge Solution for Axi-Symmetric Crushing of Tubes”, Int. J. Mech. Science, Vol. 28 p. 135-151, 1986.
Hanefi E.H, Wierzbicki T., “Axial Resistance and Energy Absorption of Externally Reinforced Metal Tubes”, Composites Part-B, Vol.270 p. 387-94, 1996
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