John W. Fisher Explained

John William Fisher (born February 15, 1931, in Ancell, Missouri) is a professor emeritus of civil engineering.

Biography

John W. Fisher served from 1951 to 1953 in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, where he attained the rank of 2nd lieutenant. After graduating with a B.S. in civil engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 1956, he became a graduate student in civil engineering at Lehigh University, where he graduated in 1958 with an M.S. From 1958 to 1961 he worked as assistant bridge research engineer working for the National Academy of Sciences in Ottawa, Illinois^[1] at the facility of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Road Test.^[2] In 1961 he returned to Lehigh University as a research assistant and graduate student, graduating with a Ph.D. in 1964. He then joined the civil engineering faculty at Lehigh University as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 1969, retiring as professor emeritus in 2002.^[1] He was Lehigh University's Joseph T. Stuart Professor of Engineering for almost twenty years. In 1986 he was the founding director of Lehigh University's Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems (ATLSS) Center.^{[3] [1]}

He was elected in 1986 a member of the National Academy of Engineering.^[4] He was named in 1987 "Construction Man of the Year" by Engineering News Record (ENR). He received in 1988 an honorary doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.^[1] He was awarded in 1992 the Franklin Institute's Frank P. Brown Medal^[3] for "forensic engineering and fatigue of materials."^[5]

In 2000 he received both the Roy W. Crum Award from the Transportation Research Board^[3] and the John Fritz Medal^[1] from the American Association of Engineering Societies. From 2001 to 2002 he served on a FEMA panel of national experts that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks.^{[3] [1]} In 2020 he received the IABSE's Award of Merit.^[6]

On October 11, 1952, in Scott County, Missouri, he married Nelda Rae Adams (born 1933). There are four children from the marriage.^[3]

Selected publications

• Fisher, John William . On the behavior of fasteners and plates with holes . Report 288-18 . Fritz Engineering Laboratory . Bethlehem, PA . Lehigh University . December 1964 .
• Grant, John A.. Fisher, John W.. 2. Slutter, Roger G.. Composite beams with formed steel deck. Engineering Journal. 14. 1. 1977. 24–43.
• Book: Fisher, John W.. Fatigue and fracture in steel bridges. Case studies. New York. Wiley. 1984. 9780471804697 .
• Fisher, John W.. 2. Mertz, Dennis R.. Hundreds of bridges—thousands of cracks. Civil Engineering. 4. 64–67. 1985.
• Fisher. John W.. 2. Keating. Peter B.. Distortion-induced fatigue cracking of bridge details with web gaps. Journal of Constructional Steel Research. 12. 3–4. 1989. 215–228. 0143-974X. 10.1016/0143-974X(89)90056-4.
• Pisharody. Suresh A.. Fisher. John W.. 2. Abraham. Martin A.. Supercritical Water Oxidation of Solid Particulates. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 35. 12. 1996. 4471–4478. 0888-5885. 10.1021/ie960269k.
• Ricles. James M.. Mao. Changshi. Lu. Le-Wu. Fisher. John W.. 2. Ductile details for welded unreinforced moment connections subject to inelastic cyclic loading. Engineering Structures. 25. 5. 2003. 667–680. 0141-0296. 10.1016/S0141-0296(02)00176-1.
• Tsakopoulos. Paul A.. Fisher. John W.. 2. Full-Scale Fatigue Tests of Steel Orthotropic Decks for the Williamsburg Bridge. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 8. 5. 2003. 323–333. 1084-0702. 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2003)8:5(323).
• Connor. Robert J.. Fisher. John W.. 2. Consistent Approach to Calculating Stresses for Fatigue Design of Welded Rib-to-Web Connections in Steel Orthotropic Bridge Decks. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 11. 5. 2006. 517–525. 1084-0702. 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2006)11:5(517).
• Connor. Robert J.. Fisher. John W.. 2. Identifying Effective and Ineffective Retrofits for Distortion Fatigue Cracking in Steel Bridges Using Field Instrumentation. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 11. 6. 2006. 745–752. 1084-0702. 10.1061/(ASCE)1084-0702(2006)11:6(745).
• Fisher. John W.. 2. Barsom. John M.. Evaluation of Cracking in the Rib-to-Deck Welds of the Bronx–Whitestone Bridge. Journal of Bridge Engineering. 21. 3. 2016. 04015065. 1084-0702. 10.1061/(ASCE)BE.1943-5592.0000823.

References

1. Web site: John W. Fisher PhD, PE, NAE. Marquis WhoWho's Milestones.
2. Book: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board. Special Report - Highway Research Board. 1961. The Board..
3. Web site: John W. Fisher. P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University. 2021-04-09. 2021-04-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20210411033912/https://engineering.lehigh.edu/alumni/john-w-fisher. dead.
4. Web site: Dr. John W. Fisher. National Academy of Engineering.
5. Web site: John W. Fisher. The Franklin Institute Awards. 15 January 2014 .
6. Web site: Award of Merit. International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE).