Richard B. Hetnarski

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Richard B. Hetnarski
Ryszard Bożysław Hetnarski
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Born31 May 1928
Stopnica, Poland
NationalityPolish American
Citizenship Flag of Poland.svg Polish
Flag of the United States.svg US Naturalized
Alma mater
Known for Thermal Stresses Thermoelasticity
Scientific career
FieldsSolid Body Mechanics
Institutions
Thesis On the Solution of Generalized Wave Equation in Problems of Coupled Thermoelasticity (1964)
Doctoral advisor

Richard B. Hetnarski (born May 31, 1928) is a Polish American and a professor emeritus [1] in the department of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. He has been an ASME Fellow since 1983 [2] and a New York State Licensed Professional Engineer since 1976. [3] He is best known for his contributions [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] to the fields of Thermal Stresses and Themoelasticity.

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Early life and work

Richard B. Hetnarski was born in Stopnica, [10] Poland. He received an M.S. degree in mechanical engineering at Gdańsk University of Technology in Poland in 1952; [5] an M.S. degree in mathematics at the University of Warsaw in 1960; [5] and a Doctor of Technical Sciences [11] degree at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw in 1964, mostly under the tutelage of Professor Witold Nowacki. [11] [12] In his career he concentrated his research on Solid Body Mechanics. [8] [4]

In Poland, he worked at the Institute of Aviation in Warsaw (1955-1959), [5] and also at the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1959-1969). [5] [11] In the years 1964–1965, he held post-doctorate fellowships at Columbia University in New York [5] and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. [5]

Immigration to the United States

In 1969, he and his family emigrated from Poland to the United States, [5] [9] and he became Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, [5] [9] for the year 1969–1970. He became a United States naturalized citizen in 1974. From 1970 until 1998, he held positions in the Department of mechanical engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, [5] first as New York State Science and Technology Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor [13] (1970-1971), then as Professor [13] (1971-1992), and finally as James E. Gleason Professor (1992-1998). [14] [15] Since 1998, he has been Professor Emeritus. [1]

In 1979, he held a summer faculty fellowship at the NASA Lewis Research Center [16] in Cleveland, Ohio. Then, in September, 1979, he taught a UNESCO sponsored course at the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM) [17] [13] in Udine, Italy. Subsequently, he became a NASA employee [13] [18] [19] as an aeronautical engineer, and worked at NASA in Cleveland until the end of January 1980. Later, he spent five months as Visiting Professor at the University of Paderborn in Germany. [20] [13]

Achievements

Professor Richard B. Hetnarski, at the opening ceremony of the 10th International Congress on Thermal Stresses in Nanjing, China, on 1 Jun 2013. He is presenting the book "Theory of Elasticity and Thermal Stresses" which just got published. RB Hetnarski - 10th International Congress of Thermal Stresses.jpg
Professor Richard B. Hetnarski, at the opening ceremony of the 10th International Congress on Thermal Stresses in Nanjing, China, on 1 Jun 2013. He is presenting the book "Theory of Elasticity and Thermal Stresses" which just got published.

He is the founder (with Naotake Noda) and president until 2020 of the International Congresses on Thermal Stresses (ICTS). These Congresses are held every two years consecutively on three continents, that is, in Asia, America, Europe. The first meeting was held June 5–7, 1995 in Hamamatsu, Japan at Shizuoka University [21] [14] and second was held June 8–11, 1997 in Rochester, New York, U. S.A. at Rochester Institute of Technology. [22] These were titled First and Second International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics, respectively. The name International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics was changed to International Congress on Thermal Stresses with the meeting in Cracow, Poland at Cracow University of Technology on June 13–17, 1999. [23] In 2002 the International Congresses on Thermal Stresses (ICTS) became an Affiliated Organization of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). [24]

He has been active in teaching, research, publishing, translating, and editing. He is the author of many papers [4] [8] on Mechanics and Mathematics. His latest paper, on Constant Force Spring System with a Spiral [25] was published in the ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics in 2020 when he was 92 years old.

Books

He is a co-author of five graduate-level textbooks:

Editor and translator work

In 1978, he founded the Journal of Thermal Stresses , [27] [9] and he was its editor-in-chief for 40 years [6] [5] (1978-2018), and is now its Honorary Editor. He served (1988-1991) as an Associate Editor of Applied Mechanics Reviews.

All 11 Volumes of the Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, 10 June 2014 11 Vol Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses.jpg
All 11 Volumes of the Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, 10 June 2014

He was Editor of the 11-volume Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, [28] [29] 6643 pages, Springer, 2014. Also, he was Editor of the five-volume Thermal Stresses [30] handbook which was published by Elsevier in Amsterdam and by Lastran Corp. in Rochester, New York, in the years 1986–1999.

He translated or co-translated three books into Polish from Russian, [31] from German, [32] and from English, [33] and one from Russian into English. [34] He edited five books on Mechanics. [35] [36] [37] [38] [39]

Personal life

Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Poland and Richard B. Hetnarski in discussion at Rochester Institute of Technology 16 Feb 1998 Photo of Lech Walesa and Richard B. Hetnarski.jpg
Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of Poland and Richard B. Hetnarski in discussion at Rochester Institute of Technology 16 Feb 1998

He has been known for his deeply pro-democracy convictions.  In 1989, when the Communist government in Poland was collapsing, he gave a number of presentations on the subject at three TV network affiliates of NBC, ABC, and CBS. When Lech Wałęsa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former president of Poland, visited Rochester Institute of Technology [41] in February 1998, he and Wałęsa had a discussion on the political situation in Poland, later described in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, [42] February 22, 1998 edition.

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  1. 1 2 RIT Professor Emeritus Appointment. 8 Sept 1998
  2. ↑ ASME 2020 Fellows List, p. 29
  3. ↑ NYS Professional Engineer License. 12 Mar 1976
  4. 1 2 3 "Richard B. Hetnarski's research while affiliated with Rochester Institute of Technology and other places".
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Ignaczak, J. (1998). Recollections on Richard B. Hetnarski, Journal of Thermal Stresses, vol. 21, pp. 181-183.
  6. 1 2 Special Issue to Commemorate the 90th Birthday of Richard B. Hetnarski and Forty Years of the Journal of Thermal Stresses, Journal of Thermal Stresses, Part I, vol. 41, 2018, issues 10, 11, 12, pp. XVIII + 1202-1596.  Part II, vol. 42, 2019, issue 1, pp. 1-212.  
  7. ↑ YUGOSLAV SOCIETY OF MECHANICS NEWS - Professor Richard B. Hetnarski
  8. 1 2 3 Semantic Scholar - R. Hetnarski
  9. 1 2 3 4 Ireland, C., "Three physicists glow in Rochester". Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester, NY] p. 1B & 4B, 2 Aug. 1998.
  10. ↑ Stopnica, Main Square (rynek) at the end of the market day ca. 1936
  11. 1 2 3 Professor Witold Nowacki Assessment. 11 June 1969
  12. ↑ "Assessment of Dr. Ryszard B. Hetnarski's scientific activities". Polish Academy of Science. 14 June, 1969
  13. 1 2 3 4 5 "Hetnarski Research on Aerospace Stress". R·I·T NEWS & EVENTS. 20 Mar, 1980. p. 3., Vol.12, No.11
  14. 1 2 "Prof to Co-chair International Symposium". R·I·T NEWS & EVENTS. 19 Mar, 1998. Page 5., Vol.30, No.10
  15. ↑ "Dr. Hetnarski Named RIT's Jeames E. Gleason Professor", The Rochester Engineer. Oct. 1992 p. 30
  16. ↑ Cetificate of Recognition, NASA Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, Summer 1979
  17. ↑ CISM Invitation. 23 Jan 1979
  18. ↑ NASA Employee Service Statement, 9 Oct 1979 - 1 Feb 1980
  19. ↑ NASA Notification of Personnel Action, 9 Oct 1979 - 1 Feb 1980
  20. ↑ Visiting Professor Invitation. University of Paderborn, 26 April 1979
  21. ↑ First International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics
  22. ↑ Second International Symposium on Thermal Stresses and Related Topics
  23. ↑ Third International Congress on Thermal Stresses
  24. ↑ IUTAM 2002 Annual Report, p.82
  25. ↑ Hetnarski, R. B. (August 11, 2020). "Constant Force Spring System With a Spiral." ASME. J. Mechanisms Robotics. December 2020; 12(6): 061018. doi : 10.1115/1.4047982
  26. ↑ Applied Mechanics Reviews, vol. 54, no 4, July 2001, pages B71-B72
  27. ↑ "Our Faculty: In the Forefront of the Field." RIT M·E·R·I·T, Spring 1987. p. 2
  28. ↑ Maugin, Gérard A. (2015). [Review of Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses, edited by Richard B. Hetnarski LXXXIII (11 vols., 6643 pp., 3269 illus., 1141 illus. in color), Springer, Dordrecht, Holland, 2014. ISBN 978-9400727380]. Journal of Thermal Stresses Volume 38, 2015 - Issue 2, pp. 271-275.
  29. ↑ Picture of 11-volume Encyclopedia of Thermal Stresses
  30. ↑ Bahar, Leon Y. (1987). [Review of “Thermal Stresses I” Vol. 1 of the Second Series: Thermal Stresses Edited by Richard B. Hetnarski A Series of Handbooks in Mechanics and Mathematical Methods, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1986, pp. viii + 547]. Journal of Thermal Stresses Volume 10, 1987 - Issue 4, p. 367.
  31. ↑ Iliushin, A.A. and Lenskij W.S., Strength of Materials . Translated by R.B. Hetnarski and W. Piechocki. Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN), Warsaw, 1963, 480 pages.
  32. ↑ Doetsch, Gustav. Practice of Laplace Transforms . Translated by R.B. Hetnarski, Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN), Warsaw, 1964, 303 pages.
  33. ↑ Moon, P. and Spencer, D.E., Field Theory for Engineers. Translated by R.B. Hetnarski, Polish Scientific Publishers (PWN), Warsaw, 1966, 600 pages.
  34. ↑ Parton, V.Z. and Morozov, E.M., Mechanics of Elastic-Plastic Fracture, Translated by M. Piterman and R.B. Hetnarski, Hemisphere Publishing, New York, 1989.
  35. ↑ Nowacki, W. (1975). Dynamic Problems of Thermoelasticity (translation from Polish). Edited by R.B. Hetnarski and P. Francis. Noordhoff International Publishing, 1975, 436 pages.
  36. ↑ Parton, V.Z. and Boriskovsky, V.G. (1989). Dynamic Fracture Mechanics , vol. 1 (translation from Russian). Edited by R.B. Hetnarski. Hemisphere Publishing, New York, NY, 322 pages.
  37. ↑ Parton, V.Z. and Morozov, E.M. (1989). Mechanics of Elastic-Plastic Fracture (translation from Russian). Edited by R.B. Hetnarski. Hemisphere Publishing, New York, NY, 522 pages.
  38. ↑ Frolov, K.V., Izrailev, Yu.L., Makhutov, N.A., Morozov. E.M. and Parton, V.Z. (1991). Thermal Stresses and Strength of Turbines (translation from Russian). Hemisphere Publishing, New York, NY, 379 pages.
  39. ↑ Skrzypek J. (1993). Plasticity and Creep . Edited by R.B. Hetnarski. Begell House Publishing, New York, NY, and CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 542 pages.
  40. ↑ RIT Staff Photographer, Photo of Lech Wałęsa and Richard B. Hetnarski at Rochester Institute of Technology, 16 Feb. 1998. Hetnarski's personal collection.
  41. ↑ "RIT's latest in-the-news stories". R·I·T NEWS & EVENTS. 17 May 1995. p. 5, Vol.26, No.18
  42. ↑ "Reader Q & A". Democrat and Chronicle [Rochester, NY] p. 19A, 22 Feb. 1998.
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