Olgierd Zienkiewicz

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Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Personal information
Name	Olgierd Zienkiewicz
Nationality	British
Birth date	May 18, 1921(1921-05-18)
Birth place	Caterham, UK
Work
Engineering Discipline	Structural engineer
Institution memberships	Institution of Structural Engineers
Significant advance	finite element method in structural mechanics
Significant Awards	IStructE Gold Medal

Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz (born 18 May 1921 in Caterham, England) is one of the early pioneers of the finite element method and the first to realize its general potential for solution of problems outside the area of solid mechanics. The idea behind finite elements design is to develop tools based in computational mechanics schemes that can be useful to designers, not just for researcher.

Recently, the Zienkiewicz group at Swansea University, which includes Ken Morgan and Roger Owen, have done important research work on the European Airbus.

Nowadays, Zienkiewicz is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wales, Swansea and Professor of Numerical Methods in Engineering at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering at CIMNE, Barcelona, Spain.

In June 2007 he will receive an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow.

[edit] References

• O.C. Zienkiewicz, As I Remember, Timoshenko Medal acceptance speech presented at the ASME applied mechanics annual dinner in 1998.

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