Stepan Prokofievich Timoshenko and America

Abstract

In this essay, we describe relationship of S. P. Timoshenko (1878–1972), who is often identified as “the father of American engineering mechanics” with America, where he arrived in 1922 and stayed until 1964. His autobiography appeared in 1963 in Paris in the Russian language; Timoshenko former students and colleagues at Stanford University arranged its translation into English that appeared in 1968 when Timoshenko became 90 years old. The book provides a testimony of the complex relationship that he developed towards America and Americans. Drawing from various documents in addition to his autobiography, this essay discusses in some detail various facets of his relationship. The main goal of this paper is to show that along harsh criticisms towards United States in his autobiographical book, in various documents he expressed positive views about US.

Global existence and asymptotic behavior for a Timoshenko system with internal damping and logarithmic source terms

“…Nowadays, this celebrated theory is often knowledge by Timoshenko's paper [28] of 1921. For more detailed historic context, see [10][11][12] with references therein. The internal damping is associated with an oscillating system and produces a loss of energy to overcome external sources that act in the mechanical resistance of the material.…”

Systematic Methods to Increase the Lifetime of Mechanical Products Such as Refrigerators by Employing Parametric Accelerated Life Testing

“…To robustly acquire the design of a mechanical product, designers have used established approaches such as the strength of materials [20]. Attention is being paid to the development of engineering procedures defining the structural integrity conditions of a given component.…”