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DANIEL C. DRUCKER
Pages 109-116

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From page 110...
... He introduced the concept of material stability, now known as Drucker's stability postulate, which provided a unified approach for the derivation of stress-strain relations for plastic behavior of metals. His theorems led directly to limit design, a technique to predict the load-carrying capacity of engineering structures.
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From page 111...
... He taught at Cornell University from 1940 to 1943 before joining the Armour Research Foundation. After serving in the US Army Air Corps, he returned to the Illinois Institute of Technology for a short time before he went in 1947 to Brown University, where he did much of his pioneering work on plasticity.
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From page 112...
... He had a reputation as an incisive thinker and his advice was eagerly sought, and generously given, at the university, state, and national levels. A list of such participation is too long to be given here, but recent examples include the NAS Committee on Human Rights, NRC Engineering Research Board, and National Science Board.
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From page 113...
... When Dan came to Florida he immediately joined our department's "lunch bunch," which met every school day at noon. At various times the group included Knox Millsaps, Larry Malvern, Ray Bisplinghoff, Hans von Ohain, ChiaShun (Gus)
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From page 114...
... I have watched him chair meetings of the ASME Council and of the IUTAM General Assembly -- and it was a joy to see how he managed to make those highly autocratic bodies more democratic -- and all without hurting anyone's feelings…." Karl Pister wrote to several colleagues, "I know this [sad news] hits all of us hard.
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From page 115...
... Dan stayed near always -- although he had traveled extensively all of his professional life, he never left Gainesville after her stroke. She died on December 30, 2000.
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