March 8, 2013
ICES Director J. Tinsley Oden has been invited to give Stanford University’s 2012-2013 Timoshenko Lecture. The event hosts national leaders in mechanics to honor the memory of former Stanford University faculty member Stephen P. Timoshenko (1878-1972), a Russian-born engineer often called the father of applied mechanics.
Oden, known for substantial contributions to computational mechanics, will speak from his work in the evolution of mechanics into the computer age. Oden has authored more than 500 scientific publications on the subject over the last three decades.
Timoshenko’s contributions include the development of the energy method in problems of structural stability, the theory of lateral vibrations of beams (Timoshenko-beam theory), the concept of the shear center of a beam, the theory of warping and torsion of structural beams, and many other topics from elasticity theory. Much of the work he pioneered is now classical subject matter taught as standard topics in engineering courses.
Oden will deliver the annual Timoshenko Lecture for Stanford’s Division of Mechanics and Computation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering May 16.
