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Zdenek P. Bazant Photo   HONORS
 
Member: National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foreign Member: Royal Society, London; Czech, Austrian, Italian (dei Lincei), Spanish, Japanese (EAJ), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), Indian (INAE), and Greek (Academy of Athens) national academies; Lombard Institute, Academia Europaea (London), and European Academy of Sciences and Arts (Salzburg)
9 honorary doctorates: CTU Prague, Karlsruhe, UC Boulder; Milano Politechnic, INSA Lyon; TU Wien, Ohio State, U. of Minnesota, UPPA France; Honorary member of ASCE, ASME, American Concrete Institute (ACI), Int. Union of Res. Lab's in Material and Structures (RILEM, Paris), and CSM, CSCE and CCS Prague. Honorary member of ASCE, ASME, American Concrete Institute (ACI), Int. Union of Res. Lab's in Material and Structures (RILEM, Paris), and CSM, CSCE and CCS Prague
Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art I. Class, from pres. of Austria; ASME Medal; Medals Timoshenko, Nadai & Warner Medals of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; von Karman, Freudenthal, Newmark, Biot, Mindlin and Croes Medals, and Huber, Lifetime Achievement and TY Lin Awards from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE); Boase Award (ACI); Prager Medal of Society of Engineering Science (SES); Outstanding Research Award of Am. Soc. for Composites (ASC); L'Hermite Medal (RILEM); Exner Medal (Austria); Torroja Medal (Spain); Solin, Bazant (Sr.), CSM and Stodola Medals (Czech Rep., Slovakia), and others. Elected to NAE, NAS, AAAS, Roy Soc London and 7 other national academies; Guggenheim Fellow. Past President of SES, IA-FraMCoS (founder) and IA - ConCreep (founder). Past Editor-in-Chief of ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics. In a 2019 weighted and filtered Stanford University citation survey, he came #1 in CE and #2 in engineering worldwide (ditto Elsevier 2022). ASME created ZP Bazant Medal for failure and damage prevention, and ASCE created ZP Bazant Medal for contributions to mechanics
 
EDUCATION

 
C.E. ("Civil Engineer"), 1960, Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Ph.D., 1963, Engineering Mechanics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
Postgraduate Diploma, 1966, Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Docent (habilitatis), 1967, Concrete Structures, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
 
REGISTRATION

 
Illinois Registered Structural Engineer (S.E.), since 1971
 
RESEARCH INTEREST

 
Mechanics of materials and structures, structural design and safety, with emphasis on the mechanics of fracture, damage and creep, structural stability, finite strain, size effects and scaling, probabilistic mechanics, nano-mechanics, diffusion with hygrothermal and chemo-mechanical effects, big data analysis and optimization; with applications to concrete, fiber composites, architected materials, tough ceramics, rocks, gas shale, soils, thin films, bone, snow and sea ice, and with impact on structural engineering, composite structures, structural safety, fracking and deep CO2 sequestration.
 
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