Author Description

This book is a personal anthology of the author's utmost academic works and accomplishments with his former students and colleagues intended as an enduring record for the engineering community for many years to come. The authors forty-year professional career and academic life journey is first briefly sketched in Chapter 1 and more details are elaborated in three chapters that follow: Chapter 2: The first ten years at Lehigh - beginning to show; Chapter 3: Twenty-three years at Purdue - the highly productive years; and Chapter 4: Seven years at University of Hawaii - the pursuit of excellence. The author's specific academic contributions are documented in the following three chapters: Chapter 5: 23 academic bulletins are selected to highlight his 10 major research areas; Chapter 6: 23 Academic masterpiece books are listed along with their respective peer review comments; and Chapter 7: Academic publications include journal articles, conference proceedings and symposiums, and lectures and keynotes. The book ends with the listing of all the author's 55 doctoral students' dissertation titles in Chapter 8. At Lehigh, the author published a milestone treatise on Limit Analysis and Soil Plasticity in 1975, and also completed a two-volume treatise on Theory of Beam-Columns in 1976-77 with his former student T. Atsuta. At Purdue he published another pioneering work on Plasticity in Reinforced Concrete in 1982, and also published two very popular textbooks with his former students: E. Lui on Structural Stability in 1987, and D. J. Han on Plasticity for Structural Engineers in 1988. In September 1999, the author was recruited by University of Hawaii to take the Deanship of the College of Engineering to accomplish the noble mission: to build the College to become one of the top 50 engineering schools by strengthening the faculty, improving the facilities, and increasing the enrollment. Over his seven years at University of Hawaii, a lot of progress was made in all these three