Carlos A. Felippa is a professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the

University of Colorado The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado. It consists of four institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, and the University o ...

. His research at Colorado concerns aerospace structures and

structural analysis Structural analysis is a branch of Solid Mechanics which uses simplified models for solids like bars, beams and shells for engineering decision making. Its main objective is to determine the effect of loads on the physical structures and thei ...

, with special interests in coupled field problems: elastoacoustics,

aeroelasticity Aeroelasticity is the branch of physics and engineering studying the interactions between the inertial, elastic, and aerodynamic forces occurring while an elastic body is exposed to a fluid flow. The study of aeroelasticity may be broadly class ...

, control-structure interaction, thermomechanics and electrothermomechanics.

Biography

Felippa studied civil engineering at the

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(Ing. Civ. 1963) and the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

(M.S. 1964 and Ph.D. 1966). After working at

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and Lockheed, he took a position at the University of Colorado in 1986, where from 1989 to 1991 he directed the Center for Space Structures and Controls.

Selected publications

Professor Felippa has over 150 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. *C. A. Felippa and K. C. Park, A direct flexibility method, ''Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering'', 149, 319–337, 1997. *C. A. Felippa, Recent Developments in Parametrized Variational Principles for Mechanics, ''Computational Mechanics'', 18, No. 3, 159–174, 1996. *C. A. Felippa, L. A. Crivelli and B. Haugen, A Survey of the Core-Congruential Formulation for Nonlinear Finite Elements, ''Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering'', 1, pp. 1–48, 1994. *C. A. Felippa, Parametrized Variational Principles and Applications, ''Science and Perspectives in Mechanics'', ed. by B. Nayroles, J. Etay and D. Renouard, ENS Grenoble, Grenoble, France, 1994, pp. 1–42. *K. C. Park and C. A. Felippa, Partitioned Analysis of Coupled Systems, Chapter 3 in ''Computational Methods for Transient Analysis'', T. Belytschko and T. J. R. Hughes, eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam–New York, 1983.

References

www.colorado.edu/engineering/CAS/Felippa.d/FelippaHome.d/Felippa.Fullvita.pdf
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