Richard H. Gallagher papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 16-4-4274

Scope and content

Includes copies of published papers and items relating to books, and materials relating to structural engineering, shell analysis, plasticity, elasticity, plate bending, and matrix structural analysis. Correspondence relating to the International Association of Computational Mechanics. Miga, Paulson, Kennedy, review comments on submission for International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Course materials and notes. Material relating to his National Academy of Engineering induction.

Dates

1966-1997.

Creator

Gallagher, Richard H. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Richard Hugo Gallagher was a pioneer of the finite-element method (FEM) in industry, who later had a distinguished career as dean of the School of Engineering at the University of Arizona, provost of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and president of Clarkson University. He worked at Cornell University from 1967-1978 where he served as professor of civil engineering and was later appointed chairman of the Department of Structural Engineering. He was also founder and editor of the International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering.