Jose Andrade Receives 2006 Zienkiewicz Medal and Prize

October 15, 2007

Jose Andrade, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, is the recipient of the 2006 Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize for his paper “Capturing strain localization in dense sands with random density.”

The Zienkiewicz Numerical Methods in Engineering Prize was instituted in 1998 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., publisher of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, to commemorate the work of Professor Olgierd C. Zienkiewicz, founder of the journal. The prize of £1000 and a silver medal is awarded biannually to a post-graduate researcher, under the age of forty, for the paper submitted to the judging panel of the ICE which contributes the most to research and development in the field of Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Andrade received the Medal and Prize from Professor Quentin Leiper, President of the ICE, Jan de Landtsheer, Publisher, and Alexandra Owen, Assistant Editor, John Wiley & Sons, at the ICE annual Awards Ceremony in London in October 2007.

Andrade’s research is directed towards the understanding, modeling, simulation, and quantitative prediction of complex mechanical systems, with special application to geomechanics. He is particularly interested in modeling instabilities in multi-phase porous media under static and dynamic loading by developing robust constitutive models and efficient techniques in computational inelasticity and finite element procedures.