Editors-in-Chief

Prof. Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Prof. Jeom Kee Paik
Prof. Der-Liang Young

Prof. Sridhar Krishnaswamy is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northwestern University, USA. He is also the Director of the Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention at Northwestern University. Prof. Krishnaswamy is a Fellow of the ASME and a member of SPIE. He is an Associate Technical Editor of the 'Journal of Applied Mechanics'. Prof. Krishnaswamy is actively involved in the areas of nondestructive materials characterization, optical and ultrasonic metrology, and structural health management. He is currently leading an NSF-funded program: 'Partnerships for International Research and Education: Intelligent Structural Health Management of Safety-Critical Aerospace, Mechanical and Civil Structures'. The program offers researchers the opportunity to work in the general areas of structural diagnostics and prognostics in collaboration with international partners from China, India, Korea and Hong Kong.

Dr J.K. Paik is Professor of Ship and Offshore Structural Mechanics in Pusan National University, Korea. He is Director of the University’s Research Centre of Excellence funded by Lloyd’s Register Educational Trust (LRET), with the focus on Nonlinear Structural Mechanics in association with Limit States and Risk-based Approaches. He has some 25 year experience of teaching and research in the area, and he has authored over 400 technical papers and several books and book chapters. His book publications include “Condition Assessment of Aged Structures” (2008), “Ship-Shaped Offshore Installations: Design, Building, and Operation” (2007), and “Ultimate Limit State Design of Steel-Plated Structures” (2003). Prof. Paik is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including Medal of Exceptional Merit (The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, UK, 2008), the RINA best paper awards (The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, UK, 1995, 2000), the SNAME best paper awards (The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, USA, 2000, 2004), and the IME best paper award (The Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, 2003). Prof. Paik has been chairing ISSC committees on Ultimate Strength (2006-present), Condition Assessment of Aged Ships (2003-2006), and Ship Collisions and Grounding (2000-2003). He is Editor-in-Chief of Ships and Offshore Structures which is a peer-reviewed international journal, being quarterly published by Taylor & Francis, UK. He is also associate editor or editorial board of five other international journals. Prof. Paik is Convenor of ISO 18072 code development on Requirements for Limit States Assessment of Ship Structures. He is also Editor of UNESCO EOLSS (Encyclopedia Of Life Support Systems) 6.177 Ships and Offshore Structures.

Honorary Editor

Prof. Jan D. Achenbach
Northwestern University, USA

Jan D. Achenbach is an expert on the propagation of waves in solids, with present emphasis on the theory and applications of ultrasonic methods to quantitative non-destructive evaluation, particularly the measurement of elastic properties of thin films by acoustic microscopy, and the detection of cracks and corrosion in safety-critical structures. In recent years he has worked on the development of probabilistic methods for structural health monitoring of fatigue damage in structural components for the purposes of Diagnostics and Prognostics. He is the author of a well-known book entitled Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids (Elsevier Science, 1973, available in paperback), and a recent book entitled Reciprocity in Elastodynamics (Cambrige University Press, 2004), as well as numerous papers in technical journals.

Achenbach studied aeronautical engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University in Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Walter P. Murphy and Distinguished McCormick School Professor in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He was named to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982, the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, and elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994. He became a Corresponding Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and was awarded the ASME Timoshenko Medal in 1992, the SES William Prager Medal in 2001, and ASME Honorary Membership in 2002, as well as a number of other awards. In 2003 he received the 2003 National Medal of Technology, and in 2005 the National Medal of Science.

Founder

Prof. Satya N. Atluri

Prof. Satya Atluri's professional interests lie in the areas of aerospace and mechanical engineering. His teaching and research interests at UCI lie in the disciplinary areas of: applied mathematics; theoretical, applied, and computational mechanics of solids and fluids at various length and time scales; computer modeling in engineering and sciences; meshless and other novel computational methods; structural longevity, failure prevention, and health management.

He received Doctor of Science degrees from: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (earned); National University of Ireland (honoris causa); Slovak Academy of Sciences (honoris causa); and the University of Patras (honoris causa).

He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science.

He previously taught at: UCLA (Distinguished Professor); Georgia Tech (Institute Professor, Regents’ Professor of Engineering, and Hightower Chair in Engineering); MIT (JC Hunsaker Professor); and the University of Washington (Assistant Professor).

He is a Tsing Hua Honorary Chair Professor at the National Tsing Hua University, in Taiwan, and an Honorary Professor at the University of Patras. Previously he was an Honorary Professor at the Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea.

He is Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics; Fellow of AIAA; Fellow of ASME; Honorary Fellow of the International Congress on Fracture, Fellow of the Aeronautical Society of India; Fellow of the Chinese Society of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, and many others. He was elected to membership in the US national Academy of Engineering; the India National Academy of Engineering; the Third World Academy of Sciences (Trieste); and the European Academy of Sciences.

Some notable recognitions he received include those from AIAA ( the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal; the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal` and the SDM Lecture Award); from the Federal Aviation Administration ( “Excellence in Aviation Award”); from the ASCE ( the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award); from the Society of Engineering Science ( The Eringen Medal); from ICCES ( the “ Hilbert Medal” and the “ICCES Gold Medal”); from JSME, Japan ( the Computational Mechanics Medal); from the Greek National Association of Computational Mechanics( The Computational Mechanics Medal); from JSPS, Japan ( JSPS Fellow); from the US Secretary of Commerce ( Distinguished Service Award, the President’s National Medal of Technology Committee); from Georgia Tech (the annual Distinguished Professor Award; and twice the annual Outstanding Researcher Awards). From Sigma-Xi (the Sustained Research Award); from the Science Citation Index (one of 100 most highly cited researchers in engineering); from the National Academy of Engineering (Technical Achievement Award). He has been a Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer, as well as a Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer.