Handbook of Damage Mechanics: Nano to Macro Scale for Materials and Structures

George Z. Voyiadjis is the Boyd Professor at the Louisiana State University in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the highest professorial rank awarded by the Louisiana State University System. He also holds the Freeport-MacMoRan Endowed Chair in Engineering. Voyiadjis is a Foreign Member of both the Polish Academy of Sciences, Division IV (Technical Sciences) and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea. He is the recipient of the 2008 Nathan M. Newmark Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the 2012 Khan International Medal for outstanding life-long Contribution to the field of Plasticity. He is currently a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Academy of Mechanics, and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also on the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Past President of the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science.