Modern Trends in Structural and Solid Mechanics 3

5 Preface: Short Bibliographical Presentation of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff

6 Begin Reading

7 List of Authors

8 Index

9 Summary of Volume 1

10 Summary of Volume 2

11 Other titles from ISTE in Mechanical Engineering and Solid Mechanics

12 End User License Agreement

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Series Editor

Noël Challamel

Edited by

Noël Challamel

Julius Kaplunov

Izuru Takewaki

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

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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