Stephen H. Crandall

Stephen Harry Crandall ( born December 2, 1920 in Cebu, Philippines, † October 29, 2013 in Needham, Massachusetts) was an American civil engineer and scientist for mechanics. He was a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

. Crandall studied engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology with a Master 's degree (ME) in 1942 during the Second World War he was at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT ( 1944-1946 as an instructor of Mathematics ); In 1946 he received his doctorate at Jacob P. Den Hartog at MIT. In 1947, he was Assistant Professor and later Professor at MIT ( Radiation Laboratory ). From 1958 he was Professor of Applied Mechanics at MIT, which he chaired from 1957 to 1959 and from 1961 to 1967. 1968 to 1971 he headed the department of mechanics and mathematics. From 1975 he was Professor of Engineering Ford. In 1991 he retired. He has been a visiting professor at Imperial College in London (1949, as a Fulbright Fellow ), Marseille (1960 ), 1964 /65, Berkeley, 1971/72 in Harvard, at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( 1967) and 1987 at the Technion ( Lady Davis Visiting Professor ).

In 1984 he received the Von Karman Medal and 1990, the Timoshenko Medal. In 1971 he received the Worcester Reed Warner Medal and the 1991 Den Hartog Award. In 1989 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Senior U.S. Scientist Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He was married since 1949 and has a son and a daughter.

Writings

• Editor with Norman C. Dahl An introduction to mechanics of solids, McGraw Hill 1959
• William D. Mark Random Vibration in Mechanical Systems, Academic Press 1963
• Engineering analysis. A survey of numerical procedures, McGraw Hill 1956
• Publisher Dynamics of mechanical and electromechanical systems, McGraw Hill 1968