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