HALDAR, Achintya

HALDAR, Achintya. American (born India), b. 1945. Genres: Engineering. Career: Kuljian Corp., Calcutta, India, student engineer, 1967; Paharpur-Marley Cooling Tower Engineers, Calcutta, India, design engineer, 1968-70; Engineers India Ltd., New Delhi, India, junior engineer, 1970-72; Marco Steel Supply Co., Champaign, IL, designer, 1972; Bechtel Power Corp., Norwalk, CA, staff engineer, 1978; Illinois Institute of Technology-Chicago, assistant professor of civil engineering, 1978-79; Georgia Institute of Technology-Atlanta, assistant professor, 1979-85, associate professor of civil engineering, 1985-88; University of Arizona-Tucson, professor of civil engineering and engineering mechanics, 1988-. University of Trondheim, visiting scholar at Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1995; Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, visiting professor at Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2002; guest speaker throughout the world, including China; consultant. Publications: Probability Concepts in Engineering Planning and Design, Vol. 1: Basic Principles: Solution Manual, 1975; (ed., with B.M. Ayyub and A. Guran) Uncertainty Modeling in Vibration, Control, and Fuzzy Analysis of Systems, 1997; (ed., with B.M. Ayyub and A. Guran, and contrib) Uncertainty Modeling in Finite Element, Fatigue, and Stability of Systems, 1997; (with S. Mahadevan) Probability, Reliability, and Statistical Methods in Engineering Design, with solutions manual (with Mahadevan and J. Huh), 2000; (with S. Mahadevan) Reliability Assessment Using Stochastic Finite Element Analysis, 2000. Contributor to scientific books on engineering. Contributor to scientific and technical journals. Address: Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]