Faculty - Aerospace Engineering - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Harry Hilton

Professor Emeritus

h-hilton@illinois.edu

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Office address	Mailing Address	Research Group
316 Talbot Lab 217-333-2653	306 Talbot Lab 104 S. Wright St. Urbana, IL 61801	Computational Structural Mechanics
Research Areas
Harry H. Hilton received BS and MS degrees in aeronautical engineering in 1947 and 1949 from New York University and a Ph. D. in theoretical and applied mechanics with a minor in mathematics from UIUC in 1951. He has been at UIUC since 1949. He has held several academic positions, including the AE department head from 1974 to 1985 and during the '89 and '90 summers he was an assistant dean of engineering. From 1997 to 2001, he was appointed Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Rotan. He 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. He 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. He also has been employed as a consultant by several large aerospace companies. Since his retirement in August 1990, he has remained active in teaching, research and in professional and public services. Since retirement, he has taught one 400 or 500 level AAE or TAM course each semester as well as numerous individual special problem courses and continues to advise MS and Ph. D. thesis and minority program students. During his retirement, he has published or had accepted for publication (1990-97), (1996), (1997), (1998), (2000), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2004) in archival journals or proceedings over 170 research papers. He and Professor Sung Yi (Portland State University) are also writing an advanced graduate book titled Anisotropic Viscoelasticity with Applications to Composites and Damping. Among other recent sponsored funding, he has been the recipient in 1984 of a $2,000,000 IBM CAD/CAM equipment grant, in 1987 of a $154,000 AT&T equipment grant, in 1987 of a $75,000 start up grant for an AE instructional computer laboratory and in 1990-91 of a $203,500 one year viscoelastic composite finite element analysis research grant from the IBM Palo Alto Research Center. He was an active research member of the DoE-ASCI UIUC Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. He also serves as Senior Academic Lead for Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics at NCSA where he has active research grants with the Boeing Co., the Air Force, DoD and NASA, varying from $200,000 to $650,00 per year. He is also a faculty member in the Computational Science and Engineering program. He also remains very active with his professional and public services. On campus he is a member of the UIUC 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, which are in the process of organizing professional conferences for 2005 and 2006, past member and chair of the City of Champaign Human Relations Commission, of the steering committee of the Champaign County ACLU Chapter and past treasurer of A Woman's Fund Foundation board of directors. Additional information.

Office address

Mailing Address

Research Group

316 Talbot Lab
217-333-2653

306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

Computational Structural Mechanics

Research Areas

Harry H. Hilton received BS and MS degrees in aeronautical engineering in 1947 and 1949 from New York University and a Ph. D. in theoretical and applied mechanics with a minor in mathematics from UIUC in 1951. He has been at UIUC since 1949. He has held several academic positions, including the AE department head from 1974 to 1985 and during the '89 and '90 summers he was an assistant dean of engineering. From 1997 to 2001, he was appointed Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Rotan. He 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. He 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. He also has been employed as a consultant by several large aerospace companies.

Since his retirement in August 1990, he has remained active in teaching, research and in professional and public services. Since retirement, he has taught one 400 or 500 level AAE or TAM course each semester as well as numerous individual special problem courses and continues to advise MS and Ph. D. thesis and minority program students. During his retirement, he has published or had accepted for publication (1990-97), (1996), (1997), (1998), (2000), (2001), (2002), (2003), (2004) in archival journals or proceedings over 170 research papers. He and Professor Sung Yi (Portland State University) are also writing an advanced graduate book titled Anisotropic Viscoelasticity with Applications to Composites and Damping. Among other recent sponsored funding, he has been the recipient in 1984 of a $2,000,000 IBM CAD/CAM equipment grant, in 1987 of a $154,000 AT&T equipment grant, in 1987 of a $75,000 start up grant for an AE instructional computer laboratory and in 1990-91 of a $203,500 one year viscoelastic composite finite element analysis research grant from the IBM Palo Alto Research Center. He was an active research member of the DoE-ASCI UIUC Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets. He also serves as Senior Academic Lead for Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics at NCSA where he has active research grants with the Boeing Co., the Air Force, DoD and NASA, varying from $200,000 to $650,00 per year. He is also a faculty member in the Computational Science and Engineering program.

He also remains very active with his professional and public services. On campus he is a member of the UIUC 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, which are in the process of organizing professional conferences for 2005 and 2006, past member and chair of the City of Champaign Human Relations Commission, of the steering committee of the Champaign County ACLU Chapter and past treasurer of A Woman's Fund Foundation board of directors.

Additional information.

Education:

Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mech., University of Illinois, 1951 (mathematics minor)
M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, New York University, 1949
B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, New York University, 1947
Dipl., Mechanical Engineering (ASTP), Pennsylvania State Univ., 1945

Academic Positions:

1997 - 2001, Charles E. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Rotan
1997 - present Senior Academic Lead for Computational Structural/Solid Mechanics, NCSA
1997 - present, External Examiner, School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
1993 - 1997, Professor Emeritus of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering and of Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois at U-C
1990 - present Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1989, 90 Summer, Assistant Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1988-1990, Director of AAE Instructional Computational Laboratory, University of Illinois at U-C
1957-1990, Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1977-1985, Head, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1976-1977, Associate Head, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1974-1976, Acting Head, Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1955-1957, Associate Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1951-1955, Assistant Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C
1949-1951, Instructor in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C

Major Honors and Awards:

AIAA Fellow
AIAA Dayton-Cincinnati Aerospace Sciences Symposium Best Paper Award (2002, 2004)
Association of College Honor Societies Award (2000)
Pierce Award Finalist (1992)
AIAA Faculty Advisor Award
AIAA 25-year membership Award
AIAA 40-year membership Award
ACLU Award for Lifetime Commitment to Civil Liberties (2002)
Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers (1976, 77, 78, 82, 83, 84, 85, 03, 04)
Tau Beta Pi
Phi Kappa Phi
Sigma XI
Sigma Gamma Tau

Selected Publications:

Harry H. Hilton, "Implications and constraints of time independent Poisson ratios in linear isotropic and anisotropic viscoelasticity," Journal of Elasticity, 63:221-251, 2001.
Harry H. Hilton, "Optimum viscoelastic designer materials for minimizing failure probabilities during composite cure," Journal of Thermal Stresses, 26:547-557, 2003.
Sung Yi, Shih Fu Ling, Ming Ying, Harry H. Hilton and Jack R. Vinson, "Finite element formulation for anisotropic coupled piezo-hygro-thermo-viscoelasto-dynamic problems," International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 45:1531-1546, 1999.
Harry H. Hilton and Sung Yi, "Stochastic delamination simulations of nonlinear viscoelastic composites during cure," Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 1:111-127, 1999.
Cristina E. Beldica and Harry H. Hilton, "Analytical simulations of optimum anisotropic linear viscoelastic damping properties," Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, 18:1658-1676, 1999.

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