Isaac Elishakoff
J.M. Rubin Foundation Distinguished
Professor of Structural Reliability, Safety and Security in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University.
Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL
33431-0991. USA
Biographical Information
Dr. Isaac
Elishakoff serves as the J.M. Rubin Foundation Distinguished Professor
of Structural Reliability, Safety and Security in the Department of
Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. He also holds a
courtesy appointment as a Professor in the Department of Mathematical
Sciences. Professor Elishakoff holds a Ph.D. in Dynamics and Strength of
Machines from the Power Engineering Institute and Technical University
in Moscow, Russia. Prior to joining the Florida Atlantic University, he
taught one year in the Abkhazian University, Sukhumi, Republic of
Georgia, and eighteen years at the Technion, Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa. He also occupied several visiting positions. He was
an inaugural holder of the Frank M. Freimann Chair Professorship of
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame,
Indiana during academic year 1985/86; as well as the Henry J. Massman,
Jr. Chair Professorship of Civil Engineering during the Fall Semester,
1986/87. He was a Visiting Castigliano Distinguished Professor in
University of Palermo, Italy during March 1992. During the academic year
1979-80 he served as Visiting Associate Professor at the Delft
University of Technology in the Netherlands. In 1987, he served as a
Visiting Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,
California. In summers of 1990 and 1991, he was a Visiting Professor of
Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, the
Netherlands, where in July 2000 served as an inaugural holder of the W.
T. Koiter Chair Professorship (Mechanical Engineering Department); in
June 2005 he served a Visiting Professor at the University of Rome, “ La
Sapienza” and University of Bologna, Italy. During December 2006 -
February 2007 he served as the Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion
of Science, at the University of Kyoto. During April/May 2007 he served
as a Visiting Eminent Scholar at the Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics, People’s Republic of China.
Dr.
Elishakoff is a recipient of the Bathsheva de Rothschild prize, as well
as Fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Office, and the
National Technical Foundation of the Netherlands. In 1992 he served as
Fellow of Japan Society of Promotion of Science in the University of
Tokyo. He was presented special medallions of the University of Notre
Dame, and of the University of Tokyo. During the years 1996-2002 he was
appointed as an ASME Distinguished Lecturer.
In 1991 Dr.
Elishakoff has been elected as a Fellow of American Academy of
Mechanics, for outstanding contributions to random vibrations of
structures and pioneering contributions to uncertainty modeling. His
research activities were supported at various periods by NSF; NASA
Kennedy Space Center; NASA Langley Research Center; NASA Glenn Research
Center; ICASE-NASA Institute for Computer Applications in Science and
Engineering; National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research.
Dr.
Elishakoff has made pioneering contributions in several areas:
1. random
vibrations, with special emphasis on continuous, homogeneous and
composite beams, plates and shells and associated effects of refinements
in theories and of cross-correlations;
2. free
vibration of structures with the generalization of Bolotin's dynamic
edge effect method, free of degeneracy property characteristic to the
original method;
3.
nonlinear buckling of structures, with a new method to combine the
results of experimental measurements of shell imperfections to predict
the theoretical knockdown factors associated with different
manufacturing processes;
4.
structural reliability with elucidation of errors associated with
various low-order approximations and human errors;
5. work on
a non-probabilistic theory for treating uncertainty in mechanics,
namely, optimization and anti-optimization under uncertainty and,
especially, its combination with stochastic modeling;
6. dynamic
stability of structures with imperfections, in elastic or viscoelastic
setting;
7. random
vibrations and reliability of composite structures with attendant first
book worldwide;
8.
development of the improved finite element method for stochastic
structures which has a non-perturbative nature;
9.
stochastic linearization,
10.
computerized symbolic algebra;
11.
co-authored the first and only monograph worldwide on convex modeling of
uncertainty;
12.
co-authored the first and only monograph worldwide on reliability of
composite structures;
13.
co-authored the first and only monograph on acoustically excited
structures;
14.
co-authored the first and only monograph on uncertain instability
problems;
15.
authored the first and only monograph on exact solutions for
inhomogeneous structures;
16.
authored the first and only monograph in English on safety factors.
Dr.
Elishakoff has published about 350 original papers in leading national
and international journals and conference proceedings. His publications
appeared mostly in ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics; Proceedings of the
Royal Society of London; AIAA Journal; International Journal of Solids
and Structures; Journal of Sound and Vibration; Journal Mathematical
Problems in Engineering; Acta Mechanica; Journal of Composite
Structures; Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering;
Computers and Structures; Journal of Acoustical Society of America;
Chaos, Solitons & Fractals; Meccanica and many others.
In addition
to extensive research he has developed numerous undergraduate and
graduate courses, including apparently the first engineering course
worldwide “Design for Homeland Security.”
Dr.
Elishakoff is General Advisory Editor for publications on Vibration,
Stability and Reliability for the series "Studies in Applied Mechanics"
and "Developments in Civil Engineering" of Elsevier Science Publishers,
Oxford, England; book review editor of the “Journal of Shock and
Vibration”; he is Associate Editor of three journals: (1) International
Journal of Mechanics of Machines and Structures; (2) Applied Mechanics
Reviews of the ASME; (3) Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Sciences
"Chaos, Solitons and Fractals" of Pergamon Press. He is on editorial
boards of following five journals: (1) Journal of Sound and Vibration;
(2) The Shock and Vibration Digest; (3) Trends in Acoustical Research;
(4) The Uncertainties in Engineering Mechanics Journal; (5)
International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics. In the past
he served also on boards of (6) Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics; (7)
Journal of Symbolic Computation; (8) International Journal of Computers
and Structures.
In 1986,
Dr. I. Elishakoff co-organized the (a) European Mechanics Colloquium on
"Refined Dynamical Theories of Beams, Plates and Shells, and Their
Applications" in Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany; (b) in 1990 he
co-organized the Second International Conference on Stochastic
Structural Dynamics, in Boca Raton, Florida. 8 In 1990, he co-organized
the Symposium on "Symbolic Computations and Their Impact on Mechanics"
at the 111th Winter Annual Meeting of the ASME, in Dallas, TX. (d) In
1992, he co-organized a joint FAU-University of Federal Armed
Forces-Hamburg (FRG) Conference on "Recent Developments in Solid
Mechanics." (e) In 1996 he organized an "International Conference on
Uncertain Structures" in Miami and Western Caribbean. (f) In 1997 he
coordinated a special course, "Uncertainty in Engineering Probability,
Fuzziness and Anti-Optimization" in the International Centre for
Mechanical Sciences (CISM ), in Udine, Italy, within its Hertz Session.
He also has organized numerous sessions at national and international
meetings worldwide, including the sessions at the ASME meetings. (g) In
2001 he co- organized a special course, "Stability of Structures: Modern
Problems and Unconventional Solutions” in CISM, Udine, Italy. (h) In
2005, he is organizing a special course “Mechanical Vibrations: Where Do
We Stand?”, in CISM, Udine Italy.
Dr.
Elishakoff has lectured at about 200 national and international meetings
and seminars, including over 25 special invited lectures and 13 key-note
lectures. He also has lectured worldwide in Europe, North and South
America, Middle East, and Far East.
Dr.
Elishakoff is the author or co-author of the following eight monographs:
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I. Elishakoff,
Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures, Wiley-Interscience,
New York, 1983, XII + pp. 489 (second edition: Dover Publications,
Mineola, New York, 1999 XVI + pp. 492).
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Y. Ben-Haim and I.
Elishakoff, Convex Models of Uncertainty in Applied Mechanics,
Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1990, XVII
+ pp. 221.
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G. Cederbaum, I.
Elishakoff, J. Aboudi and L. Librescu, Random Vibrations and
Reliability of Composite Structures, Technonic Publishers,
Lancaster, PA, 1992, X + pp. 196.
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I. Elishakoff, Y. K. Lin
and L.P. Zhu, Probabilistic and Convex Modeling of Acoustically
Excited Structures, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 1994, VIII + pp. 296.
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I. Elishakoff, Y. W. Li
and J. H. Starnes, Jr., Nonclassical Problems in the Theory of
Elastic Stability, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, XVI
+ pp. 336.
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I. Elishakoff and Y. J.
Ren, Large Variation Finite Element Method for Stochastic Problems,
Oxford University Press, 2003, IX + pp. 260.
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I. Elishakoff, Safety
Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes?, Kluwer Academic
Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004, + pp. 296.
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I. Elishakoff, Eigenvalues
of Inhomogeneous Structures: Unusual Closed-Form Solutions, CRC
Press, Boca Raton, 2004, XVII + pp. 720.
He also co-edited the
following 13 volumes:
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I. Elishakoff and H. Lyon,
(eds.), Random Vibration - Status and Recent Developments, Elsevier
Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1986, XX + pp. 565.
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I. Elishakoff and H.
Irretier, (eds.), Refined Dynamical Theories of Beams, Plates and
Shells, and Their Applications, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1987, XII +
pp. 436.
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I. Elishakoff, J. Arbocz,
Ch. D. Babcock, Jr. and A. Libai, (eds.), Buckling of
Structures-Theory and Experiment, Elsevier Science Publishers,
Amsterdam, 1988, XX + pp. 449.
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S. T. Ariaratnam, G.
Schuëller and I. Elishakoff, (eds.), Stochastic Structural
Dynamics-Progress in Theory and Applications, Elsevier Applied
Science Publishers, London, 1988, XX + pp.375.
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C. Mei, H. F. Wolfe and I.
Elishakoff,(eds.), Vibration and Behavior of Composite Structures,
ASME Press, New York, 1989, V + pp. 73.
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F. Casciati, I. Elishakoff
and J. B. Roberts, (eds.), Nonlinear Structural Systems under Random
Conditions, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990, VII + pp.
386.
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D. Hui and I. Elishakoff,
(eds.), Impact and Buckling of Structures, ASME Press, New York,
1990, V + pp. 99.
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A. K. Noor, I. Elishakoff
and G. Hulbert, (eds.), Symbolic Computations and Their Impact on
Mechanics, ASME Press, New York, 1990, XV + pp. 376.
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Y. K. Lin and I.
Elishakoff, (eds.), Stochastic Structural Dynamics–New Theoretical
Developments, Springer, Berlin, 1991, XIII + pp. 346.
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I. Elishakoff and Y.K.
Lin, (eds.), Stochastic Structural Dynamics–New Applications,
Springer, Berlin, 1991, XIII + pp. 351.
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I. Elishakoff (ed.), Whys
and Hows in Uncertainty Modeling, Springer, Vienna, 1999 VI+ pp.
393.
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A.P. Seyranian and I.
Elishakoff (eds.), Modern Problems of Structural Stability,
Springer, Vienna, 2002, IV + pp. 394.
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I. Ekishakoff (ed.),
Mechanical Vibration: Where Do We Stand?, Springer, Vienna, 2007,
IV+pp. 488.
Presently,
Dr. Elishakoff is composing a monograph titled “Follower Forces: Fact or
Fancy?”
Dr.
Elishakoff is listed in (1) Who's Who in America: Science and
Engineering; (2) Lexington Who's Who; (3) Marquis Who’s Who; (4) “The
Contemporary Who’s Who of Professionsals”; (5) Who's Who in the World.
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