Ted Bohdan Belytschko (January 13, 1943 – September 15, 2014) was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of

Computational Mechanics Computational mechanics is the discipline concerned with the use of computational methods to study phenomena governed by the principles of mechanics. Before the emergence of computational science (also called scientific computing) as a "third wa ...

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. He worked in the field of computational

solid mechanics Solid mechanics (also known as mechanics of solids) is the branch of continuum mechanics that studies the behavior of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation (mechanics), deformation under the action of forces, temperature chang ...

and was known for development of methods like element-free

Galerkin method In mathematics, in the area of numerical analysis, Galerkin methods are a family of methods for converting a continuous operator problem, such as a differential equation, commonly in a weak formulation, to a discrete problem by applying linear c ...

and the Extended finite element method. Belytschko received his B.S. in Engineering Sciences (1965) and his Ph.D. in Mechanics (1968) from the

Illinois Institute of Technology The Illinois Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Illinois Tech and IIT, is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the m ...

. He was named in ISI Database as the fourth most cited engineering researcher in January 2004. He was also the editor of the ''International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering''. He died at the age of 71 on September 15, 2014.

Awards and honors

* William Prager Medal, 2011. *Member of the

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(2011) *Member of the

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(1992) * John von Neumann Medal of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (2001) *

Timoshenko Medal The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to an individual "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." The Timoshenko Medal, widely regarded as ...

of the

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(2001) *Fellow of the

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(2002) * Gauss Newton Medal of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (2002) *

Theodore von Karman Medal The Theodore von Karman Medal in Engineering Mechanics is awarded annually to an individual in recognition of his distinguished achievement in engineering mechanics, applicable to any branch of civil engineering. This award was established and endo ...

, 1999.

References

External links

Ted Belytschko's website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Belytschko, Ted 1943 births 2014 deaths American mechanical engineers Scientific computing researchers Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Illinois Institute of Technology alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Northwestern University faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences