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.

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IStructE Gold Medal Winners

Henry Adams (1922) • John Baker (1953) • Eugene Freyssinet (1957) • Hardy Cross (1958) • Félix Candela (1960) • William Glanville (1962) • John Guthrie Brown (1964) • Pier Luigi Nervi (1967) • Alfred Pugsley (1968) • Knud Johansen (1971) • Yves Guyon (1972) • Ove Arup (1973) • Henry Husband (1973) • Ing Fritz Leonhardt (1975) • Oleg Kerensky (1977) • Nathan M. Newmark (1979) • Riccardo Morandi (1980) • Alex Skempton (1981) • Alan Harris (1984) • Frank Newby (1985) • Michael Horne (1986) • Alan Davenport (1987) • Anthony Flint (1988) • Gerhard Jack Zunz (1988) • Jörg Schlaich (1990) • Edmund Happold (1991) • Olgierd Zienkiewicz (1991) • Santiago Calatrava (1992) • Anthony Hunt (1994) • Michel Virlogeux (1996) • John Burland (1997) • Frederick Burdekin (1997) • William Ian Liddell (1999) • Duncan Michael (2000) • Cheng Hon Kwan (2001) • Sam Thorburn (2003) • Leslie E. Robertson (2004) • John Roberts (2005) • Roger Johnson (2006) • Joseph Locke (2007) • Mike Glover (2008) •