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YIH-HSING PAO
Pages 298-303

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... He came to the United States and obtained an MS degree in engineering mechanics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and went on to Columbia University where he received his PhD in wave propagation in solids in 1959. At Columbia he was exposed to fundamental applied physics, rather than just elements of structural engineer ing, and with his advisor, Raymond Mindlin, wrote his first paper, "Dispersion of Flexural Waves in an Elastic, Circular Cylinder," a classical subject of applied dynamics.
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From page 300...
... In 1974 he became chair of T&AM and strove with great vigor to move applied mechanics at Cornell into the top ranks. He hired and supported faculty who established nationally recognized laboratories in ultrasonic wave propagation, magneto-mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, constitutive behavior of materials, and fracture mechanics.
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From page 301...
... Pao's main research interest was the dynamics of solid materials, especially wave propagation, ultrasonics, non­ destructive testing, and the mechanics of structures in electromagnetic fields. His multidisciplinary research on waves in trusses and frames, begun in the late 1990s, might be called "waves in complex continuous systems." He and his students took the classical problem of steady vibration of trusses and frames and addressed the difficult analysis of wave propagation in the transient regime.
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From page 302...
... At Cornell Pao was known as a strong personality who often expressed his views forcefully and always with a view toward the future. But during T&AM's weekly lunches at Johnny's Big Red Grill in Collegetown, he would often lead a discussion about where mechanics research was going or what role mechanics should play in teaching in the College of Engineering.
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