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Radu Voinea
Member of the Romanian Academy
Born: May 24, 1923, Craiova, Dolj County
Studies
- 1946 - graduate of the Polytechnic Institute in Bucharest-Civil Engineering
Section, obtaining an engineer diploma
- 1949 - Doctor of engineering, equivalent with that of Reader Doctor of Science
Scientific Titles
- Corresponding Member (1963) and Full Member (1974) of the Romanian Academy
- Honored Professor (1972)
- Honored Man of Science (1974)
- Member of the European Academy of Arts, Science and Literature (1987)
- Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Timisoara (1996), Craiova (1996)
and Petrosani (1999), of the Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" of
Iasi (1998), of the University Pitesti (1999) and of the Civil Engineering
Technical University of Bucharest (1998)
Didactic activities
- Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest
- Assistant Lecturer (1947-1949)
- Chief Assistant Lecturer (1949-1950)
- Lecturer (1951-1963)
- Professor (1963-1993)
- since 1993 Consulting Professor
- Civil Engineering Institute: 1951-1958, Professor (1960-1964)
- Pro-Rector (1964-1967) and Rector (1972-1981) of the Polytechnic Institute
of Bucharest
Scientific Activities
- Secretary General (1967-1974), President of the Romanian Academy (1984-1990)
and President of the Technical Section of the Romanian Academy (1981-1983,
1991-1993 and since 1998).
- Author of more than 100 scientific papers, out of which: 2 treaties, 3
volumes published in central publishing houses, 44 articles issued in magazines
published in Romania and abroad, 17 papers issued in the published volumes
of scientific national and international conferences, 5 manuals and collections
of problems published in central publishing houses, 13 didactic manuals
and collections of problems published for local purposes, 13 papers on
basis of contracts, 8 articles in several specialized magazines.
- Original contribution in the field of theoretical mechanics (sufficiency
of the virtual mechanical work principle, introduction of the idea of a
critical system, composition of accelerations in the relative movement
of solid bodies), in the theory of mechanisms (method of independent cycles,
positional analysis of mechanisms, synthesis of cinematic couples), as
well as in the field of elastic stability of structures, of vehicle dynamics,
of vibration of rotors belonging to non-inertial systems, etc.
- A coordinator of doctorates in the field of technical mechanics and of
vibrations. So far, a number of 39 candidates have defended their paper
for a doctor's degree and have consequently been awarded the doctor's title.
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