Bernard Budiansky

Bernard Budiansky, ( born March 8, 1925 in New York City; † 23 January 1999 in Lexington, Massachusetts ) was an American engineer scientist.

Budiansky, the son of Russian immigrants, received in 1944 his bachelor's degree in civil engineering at the City College of New York, and then worked in the Structural Research Division of the NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ), the forerunner of NASA at Langley Field, Virginia. In 1950 he was at Brown University in Applied Mathematics at William Prager PhD (Fundamental Theorem and Consequences of the Theory of Plasticity slip ). From 1952 to 1955 he headed the department of static ( Structural Mechanics ), and was then a professor at Harvard University ( Gordon McKay Professor of Structural Mechanics and Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Engineering ).

He dealt with theoretical mechanics, for example, elasticity and plasticity theory, fracture mechanics, biomechanics, theory of elasticity in aircraft construction, mechanical behavior of composite materials and rock mechanics (effects of clefts on the propagation of seismic waves). Budiansky was a long -time advisor to NASA.

In 1982 he received the Von Karman Medal, 1985 AC Eringen Medal and 1989 Timoshenko Medal. He was an honorary doctorate from Northwestern University and the Technion. Budiansky was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the Dutch Academy of Sciences.