By Appointment
Robert Taylor is a Professor of the Graduate School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley. Taylor’s research focuses on computational mechanics, mechanics of solids, finite element methods, and finite element software. He is a recipient of the prestigious Daniel C. Drucker Medal awarded by the American Society of Mechanical Engineering in 2005, the Gauss-Newton Award Congress Medal from the International Association for Computational Mechanics in 2002, the Von Neumann Medal from the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics in 1999, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.
Ph.D., Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1963
M.S., Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1958
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 1956
Taylor’s research focuses on the mechanics of solids, computational mechanics, finite element methods, isogeometric methods, multi-scale methods, and finite element software.
- Daniel C. Drucker Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, 2005
- Gauss-Newton Award, Congress Medal, International Association for Computational Mechanics, 2002
- Von Neumann Medal, U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, 1999
- Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 1991
Recent Publications
Journal Papers
• Markovic, D., R. Niekamp, A. Ibrahimbegovic, H.G. Matthies and R. L. Taylor, "Multi-scale Modeling of Heterogeneous Structures with Inelastic Constitutive Behavior: Part II-Software Coupling Implementation Aspects," Engineering Computations, 2009, Vol 26, No. 1/2, pp. 6-28.
• Sengupta, A., P. Papadopoulos and R.L. Taylor, "Multiscale Finite Element Modeling of Superelasticity in Nitinol Polycrystals," Computational Mechanics, 2009, Vol 43, No. 5, pp. 573-584.
• J.L. Perez-Aparicio, R.L. Taylor and D. Gavela, "Finite Element Analysis of Nonlinear Fully Coupled Thermoelectric Materials," Computational Mechanics, 2007, Vol. 40, pp. 35-45.
• Rojek, J., E. Onate and R.L. Taylor, "CBS-based Stabilization in Explicit Solid Dynamics," International Journal for Numerical Method Engineering, 2006, Vol. 66, 1547-68.
• Sherwin, S.J., R.M. Kirby, J. Peiro, R.L. Taylor and O.C. Zienkiewicz, "On 2-D Elliptic Discontinuous Galerkin Methods," International Journal for Numerical Method Engineering, 2006, Vol. 65, 752-84.
Books
• Zienkiewicz, O.C., R.L. Taylor and P. Nithiarasu, "The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics", Elsevier, 2006.
Other Publications
• Taylor, R.L., "FEAP Version 8.3 Manuals," (User Programmer, Contact Theory, Installation, Example), June 2009.
• Taylor, R.L., "FEAP Version 8.2 Manuals," (User Programmer, Contact Theory, Installation, Example), January 2008.
• Taylor, R.L. and S. Govindjee, "FEAP Version 8.2 Parallel Manual," , January 2008.
• Taylor, R. L., "FEAP Version 8.1 Manuals," (User Programmer, Contact, Theory, Parallel, Installation, Example), 2007.
• R.L. Taylor, "FEAP Version 7.5 Manuals," (User, Programmer, Contact, Theory, Installation, Example), 2006.