Stephen H. Crandall

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Stephen H. Crandall (born: 1920) is professor emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. He joined the faculty of MIT in 1946 where he taught dynamics and strength of materials until his retirement in 1991 [1]. He was a prolific author of texts in solid mechanics, numerical methods, and random vibration. His mentor at MIT was J. P. Den Hartog. He was awarded the Timoshenko Medal[2] in 1990 "in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics." He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1993[3].

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• Acceptance speech for Timoshenko medal

[edit] Publications

Crandall, Stephen H., Dahl, Norman C. -Editors, An Introduction to Mechanics of Solids, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, (1959)

Crandall, Stephen H., Engineering Analysis. A Survey of Numerical Procedures, ISBN-13: 9780070134300 ISBN: 0070134308, (1956)

Crandall, Stephen H., Random Vibration, MIT PRESS, ISBN-13: 9781124069777, ISBN: 112406977 (1959)