Biography
Ted Belytschko
Professor
Ph. D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
Northwestern University
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Address: 2145 Sheridan Road
Email: t-belytschko@northwestern.edu
Homepage: edu/dept/people/faculty/belytschko.html
Phone: 847-491-7270
Fax: 847-491-3915
Research Statement:
Ted Belytschko is interested in computational methods for modeling the behavior of solids, with particular emphasis on failure and fracture. He has developed new meshfree methods and the extended finite element method for modeling arbitrary crack growth without remeshing and applied them to a variety of crack growth problems, both static and dynamic. He is also using molecular mechanics to study the fracture and behavior of nanotubes and developing methods for coupling heterogeneous subdomains, such as molecular and continuum models.
Education:
| 1965 | B.S., Engineering Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology |
| 1968 | Ph.D. Mechanics, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Positions:
| 1998-2002 | Chair, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University |
| 1977- | Walter P. Murphy Professor, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University |
| 1976-77 | Professor, Structural Mechanics, University of Illinois-Chicago |
| 1973-76 | Associate Professor, Structural Mechanics, University of Illinois-Chicago |
| 1968-73 | Assistant Professor, Structural Mechanics, University of Illinois-Chicago |
Selected Honors:
- Editor, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
- Founding Editor, Engineering with Computers
- Member, National Academy of Engineering
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002
- John von Neumann Medal, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics Timoshenko Medal, ASME
- ISI 93 Most Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering
- ISI Original Member 200 Most Highly Cited Researchers
- Mel Baron Medal, The Shock and Vibration Information Analysis Center (SAVIAC)
- Walter Huber Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Jaeger Prize, International Association for Structural mechanics in Reactor Technology
- Theodore von Karman Medal, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- Computational Mechanics Award, International Association for Computational Mechanics
- Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics
- Fellow, US Association for Computational Mechanics,
- Fellow, ASME Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Honorary Doctorate, University of Liege
- Structural Computational Mechanics Award, US Association for Computational Mechanics
- ICES Medal, International Conference on Computational Engineering and Science
