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Ted Bohdan Belytschko (January 13, 1943 – September 15, 2014) was an American mechanical engineer. He was Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He worked in the field of computational solid mechanics and was known for development of methods like element-free Galerkin method and the Extended finite element method.

Belytschko received his B.S. in Engineering Sciences (1965) and his Ph.D. in Mechanics (1968) from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was named in ISI Database as the fourth most cited engineering researcher in January 2004. He was also the editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. He died at the age of 71 on September 15, 2014.

Awards and honors

• William Prager Medal, 2011.
• Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2011)
• Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1992)
• John von Neumann Medal of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (2001)
• Timoshenko Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2001)
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002)
• Gauss Newton Medal of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (2002)
• Theodore von Karman Medal, 1999.

References

1. Supplement to Who's who in America. Marquis Who's Who. 27 April 1987. ISBN 9780837971001 – via Google Books.
2. ^ "Ted Belytschko". Department of Mechanical Engineering. Northwestern University. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
3. "Ted Belytschko". Department of Mechanical Engineering. Northwestern University. Retrieved September 15, 2014.
4. "Dr. Ted B. Belytschko". National Academy of Science. Archived from the original on July 4, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
5. "Dr. Ted B. Belytschko". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
6. "Award Recipients". United States Association for Computational Mechanics. Archived from the original on April 20, 2009. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
7. "Timoshenko Medal". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
8. "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
9. "Archive of IACM Awards" (PDF). International Association for Computational Mechanics. Retrieved June 2, 2011.

External links

• Ted Belytschko's website
• Ted Belytschko publications indexed by Google Scholar

• 1943 births
• 2014 deaths
• American mechanical engineers
• Scientific computing researchers
• Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Illinois Institute of Technology alumni
• Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
• Northwestern University faculty
• Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences