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Exercises to the course:
41225: Structural reliability and load modelling, 2004

SHORT CURRICULUM VITAE (Aug 2001):

Born:

1935-10-21 in Glostrup, Denmark

Education and degrees:

Ms. Civil Engineering, 1959, Dr.techn.,1971, Technical University of Denmark.

Appointments:

Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Structural Mechanics, DIAB (Civil Engineering Department of the Engineering Academy of Denmark) 1959-1961 (half-time parallel with military service to 1961). Associate Professor, DIAB, 1961-1964. Professor of Mathematics, DIAB, 1964-1984 (acting appointment from 1964-1967), on leave from July 1, 1984. External lecturer in probability theory at the Technical University of Denmark, 1966-1968. Research professor at the Department of Structural Engineering, Technical University of Denmark from July 1, 1984 to May 31, 1991. Professor in Load Modeling and Structural Reliability at the same institution from June 1, 1991. From August 2001 to October 2005 professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (after reorganization of DTU) and thereafter professor emeritus.

Visiting professorships:

W.W. Clyde professor at the University of Utah, April-June 1974. Massachusets Institute of Technology, May-June 1977. Technical University of Munich, Oct. 1980. University of Waterloo, Ontario, July 1983. Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor, Center of Applied Stochastics Research, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, March 1996. Miller Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley, January-February 2000.

Society memberships:

Elected member of the Academy of Technical Sciences, 1970, Member of the Engineering Association of Denmark since 1959, Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers since 1987.

International committee memberships:

Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS). ASCE-EMD: Probabilistic Methods Committee.
Chairman of Committee on Stochastic Methods in Structural Engineering, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability (1997-2005)(IASSAR-CSMSE).
Editorial boards: Structural Safety, Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, Extremes, European Journal of Mechanics (A/Solids).

Scientific authorship:

1966-1974: Several textbooks in Danish on pure and applied mathematics. 1971: Dissertation on stochastic process topics in civil engineering. 1981: Textbook on Uncertainty Modeling, McGraw-Hill. 1996: Main author of the monograph: Structural Reliability Methods, John Wiley & Sons 1996). 1962-1998: Author or co-author to about 140 papers in journals and conference proceedings and to about 40 reports including not yet published paper manuscripts.

Research topics in recent years:

Structural and geotechnical reliability theory, stochastic load modeling (traffic loads, silo pressures, ship loads), strength modeling (timber beams), stochastic crack growth, aeroelastic "lock in" in the natural wind, random vibrations of elasto-plastic structures, non-Gaussian stochastic dynamics, statistical interpretation of time series and field data in structural and geotechnical engineering, decision philosophy.

Consultative work topics in recent years:

Structural and geotechnical reliability evaluations, traffic load models, strength models for timber, stochastic fatigue crack growth in welded connections, interpretation of geotechnical data series from Storebælt and Øresund, boulder size investigations in the Storebælt region, code calibration, decision criteria, tolerance settings.
The clients have been: DNV Research(Oslo), Trätek (Stockholm), Danish Road Directorate, AS Storebæltsforbindelsen, COWI Consult, Betonelement-Foreningen (Copenhagen), Birch & Krogboe, ØLC (Øresund Link Consultants), RAMBØLL, Kampsax Geodan, Canadian Ministry of Transport.

Comments, suggestions etc. are welcome:

Ove Ditlevsen, oveditlevsen@mac.com

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