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See:
http://bechtel.colorado.edu/~willam/home.html
http://ceae.colorado.edu/faculty-staff/emeritus-faculty/kasper-willam/
http://www.cive.uh.edu/faculty/willam
http://www.egr.uh.edu/news/0910/?e=nae
http://www.nae.edu/MembersSection/Directory20412/30846.aspx
http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-199674
http://65.54.113.26/Author/18105780/kaspar-willam
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willam-Warnke_yield_criterion
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4250543A/Kasper_J._Willam
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL4250543A/Kasper_J._Willam
Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Colorado at Boulder
2010: Distinguished Cullen Professor of Engineering,
Cullen College of Engineering,
University of Houston
After completing his undergraduate Dipl.-Ing. degree at the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, in 1964, Professor Willam continued his studies with graduate work at California State University San Jose and at the University of California Berkeley. In 1969 he received his Ph.D. degree with a dissertation on ‘Finite Element Analysis of Cellular Structures’. Upon returning to Europe in 1970, he directed a large-scale R&D project at the University of Stuttgart to develop the 3-dim finite element code SMART for the analysis and design of prestressed concrete reactor vessels. This provided an opportunity to focus on computational aspects of thermomechanical analysis of materials and structures. In 1980 he was promoted to Universitätsdozent for Structural Mechanics in Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering with a habilitation thesis on ‘Finite Element Discretization of Quasistatic Problems in Space and Time’. In 1981 he was appointed Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was and is still teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in structural mechanics and materials. In 1988 he accepted the responsibility to chair the Institute of Mechanics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, from which he resigned in 1990 to return to CU-Boulder. He has directed major research projects on triaxial material models and localized failure analysis with the support of the NSF, AFOSR, WES, DFG, FHWA and CASI. Among other awards, he is the recipient of the prestigious Nathan M. Newmark Medal of ASCE [2003], the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany [1998], and the Science Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan [1992]. In 2004 he was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE Class of 2004).
Professor Willam is a Fellow of ASCE, ASME and USACM and a member of several committees on computational mechanics and nonlinear and inelastic material behavior. From 1994-2000 he chaired the ASCE/ACI 447 Committee on Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures. He is a member of the editorial board of several international journals and the author of more than 160 publications, and over 140 invited lectures and presentations at professional meetings. He has organized sessions and symposia at the annual conventions of ASCE, ACI, ASME and USACM. Over the past 25 years, he was involved in developing a number of workshops and panels at international conferences. Recently he was instrumental in hosting USNCCM99, the 5th National Congress for Computational Mechanics, at the University of Colorado Boulder, August 4-6, 1999, convening 700 participants from 27 countries. Recently he chaired the Local Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Fracture Mechanics of Concrete and Concrete Structures, FraMCoS-5, April 12-16, 2004 in Vail Colorado.
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