Hilton to Present Continuum Mechanics Conference Plenary Lecture

4/9/2013 Written by Susan Mumm

AE Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton has been invited to present the plenary lecture at the World Scientific and Engineering Academy International Continuum Mechanics Conference, to be held February 24-26 at Cambridge University, England.

Written by Written by Susan Mumm

AE Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton
AE Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton
AE Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton
AE Prof. Emeritus Harry H. Hilton has been invited to present the plenary lecture at the World Scientific and Engineering Academy International Continuum Mechanics Conference, to be held February 24-26 at Cambridge University, England.

Hilton’s lecture, "A Rational Integrated Approach to Designer Materials, Aerodynamics, Structural Control and Vehicle Performance: Analytical and Computational Issues," will present the theory and discuss large-scale simulations on the NCSA-IBM peta-scale Blue Waters HPC.

Hilton has extensive analytical and computational research experience and is internationally recognized for his pioneering work in deterministic and stochastic linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity. His other active research areas are creep buckling, solid propellant structural integrity, linear and nonlinear viscoelastic finite element analysis, random material properties and characterization, damping, flutter and divergence of inelastic lifting surfaces, aerodynamic noise, stochastic failure analysis, viscoelastic crack propagation, piezo-viscoelasticity, structural control, electronic packaging, composites, structural survivability, computational structural mechanics and numerical analysis.

Hilton served as a faculty member at Illinois for 41 years before officially retiring in 1990, but has remained active in teaching, research and in professional and public services since then. Since retirement, he has taught one 400- or 500-level AE or theoretical and applied mechanics (TAM) course each semester, as well as numerous individual special problem courses. Hilton continues to advise master’s degree, PhD, and minority program students, and, during his retirement, has published or has had accepted for publication in archival journals or proceedings over 200 research papers.

On campus he is a member of the Senate and its Executive Committee, as well as the Chair of its Honorary Degree Committee, and is active in the AAUP and Sigma Xi. He continues to be involved in student activities as faculty advisor to two student organizations. Off campus, he is a member of 2 national and 2 international scientific committees.

Hilton has held several academic positions, including AE department head from 1974 to 1985. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in aeronautical engineering in 1947 and 1949, respectively, from New York University. He earned a PhD in TAM with a minor in mathematics in 1951 at Illinois.

Hilton is an AIAA fellow and a director of Sigma Gamma Tau, the national aerospace honorary society and is on the Editorial Board of a book series entitled Advances in High-Performance Computing.


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This story was published April 9, 2013.