H. Mang, Inst. für Mechanik der Werkstoffe und Strukturen, Inst. for Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Technische Universität Wien,
Karlsplatz 13/202, A-1040 Vienna, Austria, Fax: +431 58801 20299Herbert A. Mang is Professor for Strength of Materials at the Vienna University of Technology. He was graduated to Dipl.-Ing. (Civil Engineering)
and to Dr.techn. of this university in 1967 and 1970, respectively. In 1974 he obtained the degree of Ph.D. from Texas Tech University
and in 1977 the certificate of a "Universitätsdozent" (habilitation) from the Vienna University of Technology. He spent 15 months
(July 1975-October 1996) as a Max Kade Fellow at Cornell University, collaborating with Prof. R.H. Gallagher. In 1979 he spent 3 months
as a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University, collaborating with Prof. K. Washizu. In 1981 he worked as a United Nations Field Expert
at the Zhengzhou Research Institute for Mechanical Engineering, People's Republic of China. In 1983 he was appointed to Full Professor
of Strength of Materials at the Vienna University of Technology. From 1985 on he has been holding the position of Director of the Institute
for Strength of Materials. 1989-1991 he was Chairman of the Board of the Computer Center, 1991-1994 Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering,
and 1994-95 Vice Rector of the Vienna University of Technology.
The of field expertise of Herbert A. Mang is computational mechanics
of solids. He has published more than 190 works including the book "Computational Mechanics of Reinforced Concrete Structures" (jointly
with Prof. G. Hofstetter) and 186 scientific articles in refereed journals and Proceedings of international conferences. Herbert A. Mang
is a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the European Community on Computational
Methods in Applied Sciences and the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM). He is a member of several scientific committees
and serves on a number of editorial boards of professional journals.
Herbert A. Mang has obtained several awards. Since 1992 he is
a Full Member of the National (Austrian) Academy of Sciences and since 1995 he is serving as Secretary General of this academy. |
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