Ray W. Clough

Ray William Clough ( born July 23, 1920 in Seattle ) is Emeritus Professor of Structural Analysis at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the Finite Element Method (FEM). Its publication in 1956 (see below) marks the first application of this methodology and 1960 he used the first time the concept of finite elements.

Life

Clough studied at the University of Washington with a bachelor 's degree in 1942 at Caltech with a Master 's degree in 1943 and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1947 and his doctorate in 1949. Afterwards, he was Assistant Professor and later a professor at Berkeley. From 1983 he was professor Nishkian in Berkeley.

1956/57 ( 1972 /73), he was a Fulbright Fellow in Norway, where he dealt with ship vibration, and 1963/64, at Churchill College, Cambridge.

He was considered an authority in the field of seismic safety of structures.

Clough and Wilson described in 1999 in "Early Finite Element Research at Berkeley " the history of the FEM in the early 1952 to 1970 vividly.

Works / Major publications

  • MJ Turner, Ray W. Clough, HC Martin, and LJ Topp: Stiffness and deflection analysis of complex structures. In: Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences. Volume 23, No. 9, 1956, pp. 805-823
  • Ray W. Clough: The finite element method in plane stress analysis. In: Proceedings, 2nd Conference on Electronic Computation, ASCE Structural Division. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept. 1960
  • Ray W. Clough, Joseph Penzien: Dynamics of Structures. McGraw -Hill, 1975 and 1993, ISBN 0071132414

Rates and Memberships

  • National Medal of Science in 1994
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering
  • He received in 1997 along with John Argyris, the Fellowship of Engineering Prince Philip Medal ( in solid gold ) from the Royal Academy of Engineering in London ( the highest award of the engineering sciences in the UK) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to engineering through the formulation and development of the finite element method.
  • Clough was founded in 1982 honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology ( NTNU ) in Trondheim and 1979 the TH Chalmers in Gothenburg.
  • The Von- Karman Medal was awarded to him in 1995.
  • A. C. Eringen Medal 1992
  • Nathan M. Newmark Medal 1979
  • Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers
  • The Benjamin Franklin Medal in Civil Engineering was awarded to him in 2006
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