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Comment: Subject is clearly notable. I added a few in-line citations but sourcing could still be improved overall.All the Spanish sources I see include an accent mark on his surname (Simó) - perhaps worth including it in the early life section. Zzz plant (talk) 17:37, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Please add sources as marked. Also. Please avoid bragging, i.e. WP:PEACOCK. I removed a lot of it, but some may be left. Ldm1954 (talk) 12:25, 19 March 2025 (UTC)
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Juan C. Simo | |
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| Born | 1952 Spain |
| Died | 1994 Spain |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (PhD, 1982) |
| Known for | Contributions to finite element theory and computational mechanics |
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Juan Carlos Simo (1952-1994) was a professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford who worked in the field of computational mechanics. His work focused on engineering analysis, particularly in the area of finite element analysis of inelastic solids and structures.[1]
Early Life and Education
[edit]Juan Carlos Simo was born in Spain in 1952. He earned his doctoral degree in Computational Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982, where he began his research on numerical simulations and mathematical modeling. Simo would go on to teach graduate courses at both Berkeley and Stanford before becoming an assistant professor at Stanford in 1985.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Simo studied the mathematical formulation of mechanical models and the development and analysis of numerical methods for simulating them. He co-authored a textbook with Thomas J.R. Hughes on computational inelasticity.[2] With his graduate students, he published works demonstrating convergence for algorithms used in the field.
Simo's work was advanced nonlinear mechanical theories for beams and shells[3]. His work on the subject emerged in the wake of Clifford Truesdell's reformation of mechanics, which paved the way for generalized models of these classical theories, such as Paul Naghdi's treatment of shells and Stuart Antman's special Cosserat rod.[citation needed] However, these models were not suitable for finite element methods because they were posed over solution spaces lacking a vectorial structure. Simo's approach, shaped by his interest in differential geometry and his collaborations with mathematicians like Jerrold Marsden, overcame these limitations and represented an advancement in applying finite element methods to these complex nonlinear systems.
Simo also made contributions to the mathematical foundations of finite element analysis. His investigation of the patch test illuminated the mathematical basis for the procedure[4] and his perspective on mixed finite element methods contributed to their use as a variational technique.[5]
Throughout the course of his career, he published about 80 papers and three books.[6]
Death
[edit]Simo died in 1994 at the age of 42.
Awards and honors
[edit]Simo received the Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1987[7][8], was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1990, and became a full professor in 1993.[citation needed] Shortly after, he was appointed Chairman of the Applied Mechanics Division[6]. In 1994, Juan was honored with the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
In 2010, the annual Juan C. Simo Thesis award was established by the Mechanics and Computation Division at Stanford to commemorate the life and contributions of Simo.[6] In 2024, the United States Association for Computational Mechanics announced the creation of the Simo-Ladyzhenskaya award, named after Simo and Olga Ladyzhenskaya.[citation needed]
The Spanish Society on Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI) also presents a yearly award named in honor of Simo, which recognizes "young researchers in the field of numerical methods and their applications."[9][10]
Books
[edit]- Juan C. Simo and Thomas J.R. Hughes, Computational Inelasticity. Springer (1998).[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Mechanics: From Theory to Computation: Essays in Honor of Juan-Carlos Simo. Springer. ISBN 978-1461270591.
- ^ Anand, L.; Govindjee, S. Continuum Mechanics of Solids. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198864721.
- ^ Antman, S. (2005). Nonlinear problems of elasticity. Applied Mathematical Sciences. Vol. 107. Springer New York. doi:10.1007/0-387-27649-1. ISBN 978-0-387-20880-0.
- ^ Zienkiewicz, O. C.; Taylor, R. L.; Zhu, J. Z. (May 2005). The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals (6 ed.). Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-6320-0.
- ^ Strang, G.; Fix, G. (1973). An Analysis of The Finite Element Method. Prentice Hall. ISBN 978-0-13-032946-2.
- ^ a b c "Simo". Retrieved 4 April 2024.
- ^ "NSF 92-55 Directory of Awards, Engineering Directorate".
- ^ "Six Stanford researchers honored". The Peninsula Times Tribune. 1987-01-10. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-04-20.
- ^ "Dr. Pavel Ryzhakov wins the Juan Carlos Simó Prize 2017". www.cimne.com. 2017-01-04. Retrieved 2025-04-20.
- ^ "Premios y distinciones – SEMNI" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2025-04-20.
Premio SEMNI Juan Carlos Simó al joven investigador
- ^ Simo, J.C.; Hughes, T.J.R. (1998). Computational Inelasticity. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics. Vol. 7. doi:10.1007/b98904. ISBN 0-387-97520-9.