Olgierd Zienkiewicz

Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Born 18 May 1921(1921-05-18)
Caterham, UK
Died 2 January 2009(2009-01-02) (aged 87)
Swansea, UK
Nationality Polish-British
Work
Engineering discipline Civil Engineer and Structural engineer
Institution memberships Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Structural Engineers
Significant advance finite element method in structural mechanics
Significant awards IStructE Gold Medal

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, CBE, FREng, FRS (18 May 1921 – 2 January 2009)[1][2] was a British academic, mathematician, and civil engineer. He was born in Caterham, England. He was one of the early pioneers of the finite element method.[3] Since his first paper in 1947 dealing with numerical approximation to the stress analysis of dams, he published nearly 600 papers and wrote or edited more than 25 books.[4]

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Early education

His school education took place in Poland, where his father was a judge of the Katowice district. He and his family family moved to the UK due to the World War II. Zienkiewicz studied in the early 1940s at Imperial College London for an undergraduate BSc (Hons) degree in Civil Engineering which he obtained in 1943 with first class honours. Then, after being offered a scholarship, he stayed for two more years at Imperial College to carry out research on dams under the supervision of Professors A. J. S. Pippard and Sir R. V. Southwell. He was awarded the PhD degree in 1945 with his thesis title "Classical theories of gravity dam design in the light of modern analytical methods".

Contributions to science

Zienkiewicz was notable for having recognized the general potential for using the finite element method to resolve problems in areas outside the area of solid mechanics. The idea behind finite elements design is to develop tools based in computational mechanics schemes that can be useful to designers, not solely for research purposes. His books on the Finite Element Method were the first to present the subject and to this day remain the standard reference texts. He also founded the first journal dealing with computational mechanics in 1968 (International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering), which is still the major journal for the field of Numerical Computations.[4]

International recognition

The international range of Zienkiewicz' academic experiences has been geographically diverse. He became a lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK (1949–1957) before becoming Professor of Structural and Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA (1957–1961). From 1961 to 1988 he was Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Swansea University. He was latterly Professor Emeritus of this institution. Other teaching positions have included:

  • International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering at CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain—Professor of Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • Polytechnic University of Catalonia at Barcelona, Spain—UNESCO Chair of Numerical Methods in Engineering
  • University of Texas, Austin—Joe C. Walter Chair of Engineering.

Honours

Zienkiewicz received honorary degrees from Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, China, Poland, Scotland, Wales, France, England, Italy, Portugal, Hungary and the United States.[4]

He was elected to a number of learned societies,[4] including:

He has been the recipient of many honors, awards, and medals.[4] including

He was instrumental in setting up the association of computational mechanics in engineering (ACME) for the United Kingdom in 1992 and was the honorary president for the association for the rest of his life.

References

  1. ^ Owen, D. R. J. (2009). "Olgierd (Olek) Cecil Zienkiewicz CBE. 18 May 1921 -- 2 January 2009". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 55: 337–359. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2009.0008.  edit
  2. ^ Stein, E. (2009). "Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz, a pioneer in the development of the finite element method in engineering science". Steel Construction 2 (4): 264–272. doi:10.1002/stco.200910036.  edit
  3. ^ 10th European Simulation Symposium (ESS ’98): Keynote lecturer, bio notes
  4. ^ a b c d e Swansea University: Awards news
  5. ^ ISI Highly Cited Author – Olgierd Zienkiewicz

Bibliography

  • Zienkiewicz, O. C. (1945), Classical theories of gravity dam design in the light of modern analytical methods. PhD Thesis, Imperial College, University of London.
  • Imperial College Alumni, Professor Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz [1]
  • Swansea University, College of Engineering, Professor Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz [2]



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