George Z. Voyiadjis Explained

George Zino Voyiadjis
Birth Place:	Cairo, Egypt
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Applied Mechanics
Workplaces:	Louisiana State University
Alma Mater:	Ain Shams University (B.Sc.) California Institute of Technology, (M.Sc.) Columbia University (D.Eng.Sc.)
Thesis Title:	Large Elasto-Plastic Deformations of Solids
Thesis Year:	1973
Doctoral Advisor:	Maciej P. Bieniek
Awards:	Khan International Medal (2012) Nathan M. Newmark Medal (2008)

George Zino Voyiadjis is an American civil engineer. He has been on the faculty of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, since 1980, and is Boyd Professor and Bingham C. Stewart Distinguished Professor in its department of civil and environmental engineering. He specializes in mechanics of materials and damage mechanics, and the numerical modeling thereof.

Education

Voyiadjis took a B.Sc. in civil engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1969, an M.Sc. in civil engineering from California Institute of Technology in Pasadena in 1970, and a D.Eng.Sc. in engineering mechanics from Columbia University in New York in 1973.

Awards

In 2022, Voyiadjis was awarded the Nadia Medal by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.^[1]

Books

with Peter Issa Kattan: Advances in Damage Mechanics: Metals and Metal Matrix Composites. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999. ; second edition 2006.
with Peter Issa Kattan: Damage Mechanics with Finite Elements: Practical Applications with Computer Tools. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 2001. .
with Peter Issa Kattan: Mechanics of Composite Materials with MATLAB. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer, 2005 .
with Peter Issa Kattan: Damage Mechanics. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2005. .
with Chung R. Song: The Coupled Theory of Mixtures in Geomechanics with Applications, 2006. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer.
with Pawel Woelke: Elasto-Plastic and Damage Analysis of Plates and Shells, 2008. Berlin; Heidelberg; New York: Springer. .
with Mohammadreza Yaghoobi: Size Effects in Plasticity, 2019. London; San Diego, CA: Elsevier. .
with Yooseob Song: Gradient-enhanced Continuum Plasticity: Theories, Experiments and Numerical Methods, 2020. Amsterdam: Elsevier. .

Notes and References

Web site: American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Nadai Medal Recipients. 7 October 2012.