Robert L. Taylor

Professor of the Graduate School
Research Interests
Mechanics of solids, Computational mechanics, Finite element methods, Finite element software
Office

714 Davis Hall

Office Hours

By Appointment

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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.

Education

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.

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