R. Owen

Short biographical note of Prof. D. Roger J. Owen
Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea

Professor Owen is the author of seven textbooks and over three hundred scientific publications. In addition to being the editor of thirty monographs and conference proceedings, Professor Owen is also the editor of the International Journal for Engineering Computations and is a member of several Editorial Boards.

Professor Owen's research, in the field of solid and structural mechanics, has largely centred on the development of solution procedures for non-linear problems encountered in engineering practice. Professor Owen has contributed prominently to the development of computational strategies for plastic deformation problems and to the introduction of parallel processing concepts to finite element analysis. Over the last decade or so, his work has focused on the development of discrete element methods for particulate modelling and the simulation of multi-fracturing phenomena in materials. Areas of application have included the simulation of industrial forming processes for metals, plastics and glass, rock blast modelling, deep level mining operations, food technology, defence problems and structural failure predictions.

Professor Owen is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He is also the recipient of an Honorary D. Sc. from the University of Porto, Portugal.

He is an Executive Council Member of IACM (International Association for Computational Mechanics). He is Past Chairman of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering and has served for over ten years as elected Council Member of the National Association for Finite Element Methods & Standards. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the Institute for High performance Computing (iHPC), Singapore.

In 1985 Professor Owen co-founded Rockfield Software Ltd., of which he is Chairman, for the specific purpose of providing a computational technology service to industry. The company has grown into one of the foremost UK computational R&D companies and has established a world-wide reputation for leading edge engineering activities.

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