Klaus-Jrgen Bathe

Klaus-Jrgen Bathe is a Professor of MechanicalEngineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,and founder of ADINA R & D, who specializes incomputational mechanics.[1] Bathe is considered to beone of the pioneers in the eld of nite element analy-sis and its applications.[2]

1 Early life and educationBorn in Berlin, Bathe had his high school education atOldenburg in Federal Republic of Germany. He thenwent to South Africa, where he earned his graduatedegree in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechan-ics from the University of Cape Town in 1967. Bathereceived his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering fromUniversity of Calgary, Canada in 1969. Then, he receivedhis Ph.D. in Civil Engineering fromUniversity of Califor-nia, Berkeley in 1971.[3] His thesis was on numerical so-lution of large eigenvalue problems, where he developedthe subspace iteration method.

2 CareerDuring his time as a post-doctoral fellow (19721974) atUC Berkeley, Bathe et al. developed the nite elementprograms SAP IV and NONSAP, which have been usedby thousands of individuals and organizations in researchand practice and had a major impact in advancing the -nite element method. In 1974 he started the developmentof the ADINA system. Soon after, he joined the depart-ment of mechanical engineering at MIT.In 1986, he founded ADINA R&D, Inc.[4]

3 Major contributionsBathe has made fundamental contributions in the niteelement analysis of structures, heat transfer, eld prob-lems, CFD, and uid-structure interactions. These con-tributions are widely used in commercial software codes.Specically, the following contributions for reliable, ac-curate and ecient nite element analyses are widely em-ployed: [5] [6]

Formulation of shell nite elements (the MITC shellelements).

Formulations of large deformations of solids (theTotal and Updated Lagrangian formulations).

Solution techniques for large eigenvalue problems(the subspace iteration method).

Solution techniques for contact problems (theconstraint-function method).

Time integration schemes for the dynamic analy-sis of structures and uid-structure interactions (theBathe method).

Schemes for fully coupled uid-structure interac-tions and multi-physics problems.

Mathematical analysis of nite element schemes. The book Finite Element Procedures used as astandard reference text in academia and industry.

Bathe is widely recognized to bridge the worlds ofacademia and industry in computational mechanics. [7]

4 Honors and awardsBathe has received many honorary doctorates from insti-tutions around the world: Slovak Academy of Sciencesand Technical University of Zilina, Slovakia; Techni-cal University of Darmstadt, Germany; Technical Uni-versity of Rzeszow, Poland; Universidad Politcnica deMadrid, Spain; University of Bucharest, Romania; Uni-versity of Miskolc, Hungary; University of Buenos Aires,Argentina; and University of Cape Town, South Africa.[1] [7]

Bathe has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author inEngineering by the ISIWeb of Knowledge, Thomson Sci-entic Company.[8]

5 Editorial activitiesBathe currently serves as the Co-Editor of the Journal ofComputers & Structures.[9] He is also the editor of theSpringers book series on Computational Fluid and SolidMechanics.[10] He has organized the twelve bi-yearly con-ferences Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis and AD-INA, atM.I.T., 19771999, and the seven bi-yearly con-ferences Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics [11]at M.I.T., 2001-2013.

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6 Klaus-Jrgen Bathe LeadershipProgram

The goal of this Program is to produce graduates comingfrom any faculty of the University of Cape Town, SouthAfrica with outstanding leadership qualities and a strongsense of social justice, who will go on to play leading andsignicant roles in business, government, industry andcivil society in South Africa and on the African continent.[12]

7 Books K.J. Bathe and E.L. Wilson, "Numerical Methods inFinite Element Analysis", Prentice-Hall, 1976.

K.J. Bathe, "Finite Element Procedures in Engineer-ing Analysis", Prentice-Hall, 1982.

K.J. Bathe, "Finite Element Procedures", 1st Edition,Prentice Hall, 1996; 2nd Edition, Watertown, MA:Klaus-Jrgen Bathe, 2014.

D. Chapelle and K.J. Bathe, "The Finite ElementAnalysis of Shells Fundamentals", 1st Edition,Springer, 2003; 2nd edition, Springer, 2011.

M.Kojic andK.J. Bathe, "Inelastic Analysis of Solidsand Structures", Springer, 2005.

K.J. Bathe, "To Enrich Life", Amazon.com, 2007. M.L. Bucalem, K.J. Bathe, "TheMechanics of Solidsand Structures Hierarchical Modeling and the Fi-nite Element Solution", Springer, 2011.

8 Video Courses on Finite ElementMethods

MITVideo Lectures: "Finite Element Procedures forSolids and Structures - Linear Analysis". [13]

MITVideo Lectures: "Finite Element Procedures forSolids and Structures - Nonlinear Analysis". [14]

9 References[1] K.J. Bathe at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[2] Anwar Bg, O. (2003). Giants of Engineering Science.Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-899293-52-0.

[3] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe (2008). To Enrich Life. Klaus-JrgenBathe. ISBN 0979004926.

[4] ADINA Finite Element Analysis Software. adina.com.

[5] J.W. Tedesco and J. Walczak, Preface, Computers &Structures, 81: 455-462, 2003

[6] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe (2014). Finite element Procedures(2nd ed.). Klaus-Jrgen Bathe. ISBN 978-0-9790049-2-6.

[7] Bridging the world of academia and industry. Universityof Cape Town News.

[8] ISI Highly Cited Author - Klaus-Jrgen Bathe

[9] K.J. Bathe Co-Editor of Journal of Computers & Struc-tures. Retrieved 2009-10-16.

[10] K.J. Bathe Editor of the Springers book series on Com-putational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Retrieved 2009-10-19.

[11] Seventh MIT Conference on Computational Fluid andSolid Mechanics.

[12] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe Leadership Program.

[13] MIT Video Lectures: Finite Element Procedures forSolids and Structures - Linear Analysis.

[14] MIT Video Lectures: Finite Element Procedures forSolids and Structures - Nonlinear Analysis.

10 External links Special issue on K. J. Bathes 60th birthday anniver-sary, preface in Computers & Structures

Founder of ADINA R&D, Inc.

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