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... FENVES* WILLIAM McGUIRE, a prominent contributor to knowledge of the behavior and design of steel structures, died on January 31, 2013, at the age of 92.
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... He was the author or coauthor of numerous papers and reports and of two widely used textbooks: Steel Structures (1968) and Matrix Structural Analysis (first edition, 1979, with R.H.
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... WILLIAM McGUIRE 207 Starting in the early 1970s, Bill was an innovator in the adaptation of interactive computer graphics techniques to the computer-aided nonlinear analysis and design of threedimensional framed structures. He advocated that better designs would always come from a better understanding of structural behavior.
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... 208 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Cornell University faculty and administration members as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC)

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