Author: Arthur P. Boresi

Arthur P. Boresi, PhD, Fellow of AAM, ASME, ASCE, isProfessor Emeritus in the MechanicalScience and EngineeringDepartment at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he has taught for more than twenty years, and the Departmentof Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyomingin Laramie. He has published over 100 refereed papers and is thesenior author of a number of books, including ApproximateSolution Methods in Engineering Mechanics and AdvancedMechanics of Materials (Wiley). Ken P. Chong, PhD, PE, Fellow of AAM, ASME, SEM, DistMASCE, is a Professor at The George Washington University andan associate at NIST. He has been an interim divisiondirector, engineering advisor, and director of the mechanics andmaterials for a total of twenty-one years at the U.S. NationalScience Foundation. He has published over 200 refereed papers, andis the author or coauthor of twelve books including IntelligentStructures, Modeling and Simulation-Based Life CycleEngineering, and Materials for the New Millennium. He hastaught at the Universities of Wyoming, Hong Kong, and Houston, inaddition to being a visiting professor at MIT and University ofWashington. James D. Lee, PhD, PE, Fellow of ASME, is a Professor atThe George Washington University teaching in the areas of continuummechanics, nanomechanics, fracture mechanics, and finite elementmethods. He has been a researcher at General Tire and RubberCompany, NIST, and NASA, and has published over 100 journal papersand many conference papers. He also coauthored the book MeshlessMethods in Solid Mechanics. He received the School ofEngineering and Applied Science at GWU Distinguished ResearcherAward.