Zdeněk Bažant#
| Membership Number: | 3845 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/Bazant/html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002 - now McCormick Institute Professor, Northwestern University
- 1990 - now Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Northwestern University
- 1973 - 1990 Professor, Northwestern University
- 1981 - 1987 Director of Center of Geomaterials, Northwestern University
- 1969 - 1973 Associate Professor, Northwestern University
- 1968 - 1969 Assoc. Res. Engineer, UC Berkeley
- 1997 - 1968 Ford Foundation Fellow, Univ. of Toronto, and Post. Doc. CEBTP, Paris
- 1964 - 1967 Scientist of Adjunct Assistant Professor, Czech Technical University, Prague
- 1961 - 1963 Bridge Engineer, Dopravoprojekt, Prague
Fields of Scholarship
- Mechanics of materials and structures and structural safety
- The mechanics of fracture, materials damage and creep
- Size effects and scaling
- Probabilistic mechanics
- Nano-mechanics
- Hygrothermal effects, with applications to concrete
- Fiber composites, with applications to car crashworthiness, ships and aircraft
- Tough ceramics, rocks, soils, bone, snow and sea ice
- Hydraulic fracturing of rock
Honours and Awards
- 2002 Member, US National Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Member, US National Academy of Engineering
- 2008 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2006 Member of Italian Academy of Sciences (dei Lincei) *2000 Foreign Member of Austrian National Academy of Sciences
- 2008 Corresponding Member of Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering
- 1998 Member of Czech National Academy of Engineering
- 2002 Member of Lombard Institute (Milan)
- 2008 Member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts(Salzburg)
- 7 honorary doctorates (CTU Prague, 1991; University Karlsruhe, 1998; UC Boulder, 2000; Milan Polytechnic, 2001; INSA Lyon, 2004; TU Vienna, 2005; Ohio State, 2011)
- Honorary member of ASCE, 2007; ASME, 2012; and American Concrete Institute (ACI), 2011
- Timoshenko, 2009; Nadai, 2008; & Warner, 1997 Medals of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME);
- von Karman, 2005; Newmark, 1996; Biot, 2011; and Croes, 1997 Medals, and Huber Prize, 1976; Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003; and TY Lin, 1977, Award of American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE);
- Prager Medal of Society of Engineering Science (SES), 1996
- L'Hermite Gold Medal of RILEM
- Torroja Medal, Spain
- Solin Medal, CTU Prague
- Stodola Medal, Slovakia, and other
