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      First published 2021 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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      Preface

      Short Bibliographical Presentation of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff

      This book is dedicated to Prof. Isaac Elishakoff by his colleagues, friends and former students, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday.

      Figure P.1. Prof. Isaac Elishakoff

Prof. Isaac Elishakoff is an international leading authority across a broad area of structural mechanics, including dynamics and stability, optimization and antioptimization, probabilistic methods, analysis of structures with uncertainty, refined theories, functionally graded material structures, and nanostructures. He was born in Kutaisi, Republic of Georgia, on February 9, 1944.

Figure P.2. Elishakoff in middle school in the city of Sukhumi, Georgia

Elishakoff holds a PhD in Dynamics and Strength of Machines from the Power Engineering Institute and Technical University in Moscow, Russia (Figure P.4 depicts the PhD defense of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff).

      Figure P.3. Elishakoff just before acceptance to university. Photo taken in Sukhumi, Georgia

Figure P.4. Public PhD defense, Moscow Power Engineering Institute and State University; topic “Vibrational and Acoustical Fields in the Circular Cylindrical Shells Excited by Random Loadings”, and dedicated to the evaluation of noise levels in TU-144 supersonic aircraft

His supervisor was Prof. V. V. Bolotin (1926–2008), a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Figure P.5 shows Elishakoff with Bolotin some years later).

Figure P.5. Elishakoff with Bolotin (middle), member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Yukweng (Mike) Lin (left), member of the US National Academy of Engineering. Photo taken at Florida Atlantic University during a visit from Bolotin

Currently, Elishakoff is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering at Florida Atlantic University. Before joining the university, he taught for one year at Abkhazian University, Sukhumi in the Republic of Georgia, and 18 years at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, where he became the youngest full professor at the time of his promotion (Figure P.6 shows Elishakoff presenting a book to Prof. Josef Singer, Technion’s former president).

Figure P.6. Prof. Elishakoff presenting a book to Prof. J. Singer, Technion’s President; right: Prof. A. Libai, Aerospace Engineering Department, Technion

      Elishakoff has lectured at about 200 meetings and seminars, including about 60 invited, plenary or keynote lectures, across Europe, North and South America, the Middle East and the Far East.

Prof. Elishakoff has made vital and outstanding contributions in a number of areas in structural mechanics. In particular, he has analyzed random vibrations of homogeneous and composite beams, plates and shells, СКАЧАТЬ