Synopsis
This book is a personal anthology of the author's utmost academic works and accomplishments with his former students and colleagues intended as an enduring record for the engineering community for many years to come. The author's forty-year professional career and academic life journey is first briefly sketched in Chapter 1 and more details are elaborated in three chapters that follow: Chapter 2: The first ten years at Lehigh beginning to show; Chapter 3: Twenty=three years at Purdue the highly productive years; and Chapter 4: seven years at UH the pursuit of excellence. The author's specific academic contributions are documented in the following three chapters: Chapter 5: 23 academic bulletins are selected to highlight his 10 major research areas; Chapter 6: 23 Academic masterpiece books are listed along with their respective peer review comments; and Chapter 7: academic publications include journal articles, conference proceedings and symposiums, and lectures and keynotes. The book ends with the listing of all the author's 55 doctoral students' dissertation titles in Chapter 8. In 1975 at Lehigh, the author published a milestone treatise on Limit Analysis and Soil Plasticity. In 1982 at Purdue, he published another pioneering work on Plasticity in Reinforced Concrete. In September 1999, the author was recruited by UH to take the Deanship of the College of Engineering to accomplish the noble mission: to build the College to become one of the top 50 engineering schools by strengthening the faculty, improving the facilities, and increasing the enrollment. Over his seven years at UH, a lot of progress was made in all these three areas the research program expanded, facilities improved, and enrollment increased.
About the Author
About the Author Dr Wai-Fah Chen A well-respected leader in the field of plasticity, structural stabil-ity, and structural steel design over the past half-century, he has made major contribu-tions to introduce the mathematical theory of plasticity to civil engineering practice, especially in the application of limit analysis methods to the geotechnical engineering field. Having headed the engineering departments at the University of Hawaii and Purdue University, Chen is a widely cited author and the recipient of several national engineering awards, including the 1990 Shortridge Hardesty Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Steel Construction. W F Chen, PhD Brown University, Member of US National Academy of Engineering and Member of Taiwan's National Academy of Science ( Academia Sinica), Honorary Member of American Society of Civil Engineers, formerly Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and Dean of Engineering at University of Hawaii. He is currently Research Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at UH. About the Editor Dr Lian Duan, PhD, Purdue University, is a Senior Bridge Engineer and Structural Steel Committee Chair with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), USA. He had worked at the North China Power Design Institute from 1975 to 1978 and taught at Taiyuan University of Technology from 1981 to 1985. Dr Duan has over 40 years experience in structural and bridge engineering. He was lead engineer for the development of Caltrans Guide Specifications for Seismic Design of Steel Bridges. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He served as a member for several National Highway Cooperative Research Program (NCHRP) Panels and was a Transportation Research Board (TRB) Steel Committee member from 2000 to 2006. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of International Bridge Engineering, (CRC Press, 2014) and Bridge Engineering Handbook (CRC Press, 2014). He received the prestigious 2001 Arthur M Wellington Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for the paper, "Section Properties for Latticed Members of San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge", Journal of Bridge Engineering, May 2000. He received the Professional Achievement Award from Professional Engineers in California Government in 2007 and the Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award from the Engineers' Council in 2010.
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