Isaac Elishakoff

Isaac Elishakoff is an Israeli-American engineer who is Distinguished Research Professor in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department in the Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. He is an internationally recognized, authoritative figure in the area of theoretical and applied mechanics. He has made seminal contributions in the areas of random vibrations, structural reliability, solid mechanics of composite materials, semi-inverse problems of vibrations and stability, functionally graded material structures, optimization and anti-optimization of structures under uncertainty, and carbon nanotubes.

He has over 620 journal papers, authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 34 books and has given over 200 national and international talks at conferences and seminars.

His selected lectures on (a) Elastic Stability, (b) Vibration Syntheses and Analysis and (c) Intermediate Strength of Materials are available on the internet. Provided by Wikipedia