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OLGIERD C. ZIENKIEWICZ
OLGIERD C. ZIENKIEWICZ
Pages 378-386
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TAYLOR In May 2011, I attended the 19th International Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics held in Warsaw, Poland. As I sat in a main lecture hall of the Warsaw University of Technology for the opening session, I could not help but recall my good friend Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz, who died on January 2, 2009, in Swansea, Wales, after a brief illness.
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He had a phenomenal memory and could, in late life, clearly recall poems of the Iliad learned from his Latin tutor, sing the Polish songs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, and recall salient points from any of his publications. In the early 1930s the family settled in Katowice, where his father had attained a position as a judge in the regional court.
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At the time Olek believed finite difference methods could solve all elasticity problems equally well, but that finite element methods offered a way to solve shell problems associated with arch dams if appropriate bending elements could be developed. In 1961, Olek was appointed chair of the civil engineering department at the University of Wales, Swansea.
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The book was an immediate success and firmly established Olek worldwide as a leader in finite element theory and practice. The book has appeared in five subsequent editions, with the current edition, published in 2005, consisting of three volumes numbering nearly 1,800 pages.
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Through his efforts the International Association of Computational Mechanics was founded in 1986 and he served as its first president for four years. During the next 25 years, Olek and his colleagues and students developed and applied finite element methods to solve a wide range of applications -- from problems in solid mechanics to problems in fluid dynamics to problems in electromagnetism.
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While traveling he would spot a dam or bridge under construction, or recently collapsed, and then to his children's cringing embarrassment, march up to the security gate and never fail to talk his way in. And we would see wonderful things, huge civil engineering projects, research labs, inside other people's houses.
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A world, most of which he visited, some of which he showed us and an awful lot of which passed through our living room in the form of his friends and colleagues. He enjoyed sailing with all of them.
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