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Zdenek P. Bazant received his PhD from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in 1963.He joined Northwestern University, Illinois in 1969, where he has been W. P. Murphy Professor since 1990 and simultaneously McCormick Institute Professor since 2002, and Director of the Center for Geomaterials (1981–7). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Society of London, as well as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Engineering Academy of the Czech Republic, the Italian National Academy, the Spanish Royal Academy of Engineering, the Istituto Lombardo, Milan, the Academia Europaea, London, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Bazant is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Concrete Institute, and RILEM (International Union of Laboratories and Experts in Construction Materials, Systems and Structures), Paris. He has received the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class, 7 honorary doctorates, ASME Timoshenko, Nadai and Warner Medals, the ASCE von Karman, Newmark, Biot, Mindlin and Croes Medals and Lifetime Achievement Award, the Society of Engineering Science William Prager Medal, and the RILEM L'Hermite Medal, among others. He is the author of Scaling of Structural Strength (2002), Inelastic Analysis of Structures (with Milan Zirásek, 2001), Fracture and Size Effect in Concrete and Other Quasibrittle Materials (with Jaime Planas, 1997), Stability of Structures (with Luigi Cedolin, 2010) and Concrete at High Temperatures (with Maurice F. Kaplan, 1996). In 2015, ASCE established ZP Bažant Medal for Failure and Damage Prevention. He is one of the original top 100 ISI Highly Cited Scientists in Engineering (www.ISIhighlycited.com). Jia-Liang Le is currently Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He obtained his Bachelor (First Class Honors) in civil engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2003, a Master of Engineering from NUS in 2005, and a PhD in structural mechanics from Northwestern University, Illinois in 2010. He received the Undergraduate Faculty Award from the University of Minnesota, the Best Paper Award of the 48th US Rock Mechanics/Geomechanics Symposium, and the 2015 Young Investigator Award from the US Army Research Office. His research interests include fracture mechanics, probabilistic mechanics, scaling, and structural reliability. He has authored three book chapters and more than forty refereed journal articles.
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