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Professor Viggo Tvergaard

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark

Viggo Tvergaard is a Professor of Solid Mechanics. He got his Ph.D. in 1971 from the Technical University of Denmark, and his dr. techn. degree in 1978. From 1980 to 1992 he was the Euromech Correspondent for Solid Mechanics in Denmark.

Viggo Tvergaard’s primary research interests are instabilities of structures and solids, the mechanics of materials, fracture mechanics, damage mechanics, and micromechanics.

Since 1995 he is the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids. He is a foreign member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Engineering, and an honorary member of ESIS, Eur. Struct. Integrity Soc. He is a member of the Congress Committee of IUTAM, and is chair of the Solid Mechanics Symposium Panel of IUTAM.

Honors:

The Esso Prize 1982; for outstanding technical-scientific research

The Villum Kann Rasmussen Prize 1989; for research on material mechanics and fracture mechanics

Appointed Visiting Professor of Engineering, Brown University, 1989-1994

Honorary doctor degree, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 1993

The 1998 Koiter Medal of ASME; for seminal contributions to the understanding of instability and failure phenomena in solids and structures.

The 2009 EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Prize; for outstanding contributions to a broad spectrum of solid mechanics.

The Alexander Foss Gold Medal 2010, for scientific technical research.

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