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CHARLES E. MASSONNET
Pages 226-231

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... FENVES C HARLES ERNEST MASSONNET, a prominent European educator and researcher on structural steel construction and initiator of many international collaborations in the field, died April 4, 1996, at the age of 82. He was born March 14, 1914, in Arlon, in the south of Belgium, to Jules Massonnet, a pharmacist who served as mayor of Arlon and member of the Belgian Senate, and Louise (née Martha)
From page 228...
... Research areas included many forms of buckling, shear lag, postbuckling strength, fracture mechanics, plastic design, structural connections, finite element methods and related software, boundary elements, and large-scale tests. In the United States he was a lecturer or visiting professor at the universities of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, Lehigh, Cornell, Brown, California (Berkeley and Los Angeles)
From page 229...
... He personally investigated and provided testimony on major structural issues, including failures, and he assigned investigators to lesser cases. When he first joined SECO, one of his duties was to check the design of many pavilions for the 1958 Brussels World Exhibition.
From page 230...
... Over the years they extended their hospitality to colleagues, friends, visitors, and collaborators (the present writer included) , either in their apartment with a sweeping view of the river Meuse or in their country house in hilly Nandrin.


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