Gerald Wempner
Professor Emeritus
Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials
Education
- B.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1952
- M.S. Univ. of Wisconsin, 1953
- Ph.D. Univ. of Illinois, 1957
Awards
- Senior Award, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany, 1974-75
- Gillam Fellowship, Univ. of Calgary, Canada, 1983
- Recipient of Sigma Xi award for the outstanding research paper in engineering at the Ga. Inst. of Tech.,1982 & 1985
Articles
- Large Symmetrical Deflections of Annular Plates,( with R. Schmidt ), J.A.M, 1958
- Corrugated Open-Face Sandwich Plate, ( with J. McKinley ), J. Aero.. Eng., 1962
- Axisymmetric Deflections and Snap-Through of Shallow Conical Shells, J. Mech. Div. ASCE, 1962
- New Concepts for Finite Elements of Shells, Zeit.. Ang. Math. u. Mech.. 1968
- Discrete Approximations related to Nonlinear Theories of Solids, Int. J. Solids & Structures, 1971
- A Derived Theory of Elastic-Plastic Shells, ( with C. M. Hwang ), Int. J. Solids & Structures, 1977
- Mechanical Behavior of Filament-Wound Composite Tubes, ( with G. Clodfelter ), J. Composite Materials, 1980
- A Simple and Efficient Approximation of Shells via Finite Quadrilateral Elements, J. Applied Mechanics, 1982
- A Simple Finite Element for Elastic-Plastic Deformations of Shells, ( w. D. Talaslidis), Comp. Meth. in Applied Mechanics & Eng
- A General Theory of Shells and the Complementary Potentials, J. Appl.. Mech., 1986
- The Complementary Potentials of Elasticity, Extremal Properties and Associated Functionals, Jour. Applied Mechanics, 1992
Books
- Mechanics of Solids ( with applications to thin bodies ), McGraw-Hill, 1973: Reprinted by Sijthoff-Noordhoff, 1982
- Mechanics of Solids. PWS Publishing, 1995
- Mechanics of Solids and Shells, with D. Talaslidis, CRC Press, 2003
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