Robert D. Cook Professor Emeritus Address/E-mail Program Affiliations Education Fields of Interest Summary

Contact Information

3350 Engineering Hall 1415 Engineering Drive Madison, WI 53706

Tel: 608/262-0958 E-mail: cook@engr.wisc.edu

Departments

• Engineering Physics

Education

• PhD 1963, Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois

Fields of Interest

• finite element methods
• structural mechanics
• stress analysis

Summary

Professor Cook's research interests are in stress analysis, structural mechanics and computational mechanics, especially finite element methods (which are used for approximate numerical analysis of various problems of continua). He is well known for his textbooks on finite element methods and advanced mechanics of materials.