K.C. Park

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K. C. Park is a professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Center for Aerospace Structures, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado since 1985. He received his BS from Inha Institute of Technology (Inchon, Korea), MS from Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA), and PhD from Clarkson College (Postdam, NY). He served as Founding Director, Center for Aerospace Structures, University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to his present position, he was a senior staff scientist at Lockheed Missiles & Space Company's Palo Alto Research Laboratory (Palo Alto, California). His visiting appointments include: Visiting Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT (Cambridge, MA); Professeur Invite, University of Paris, Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble, Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Institut National des Sciences Appliques de Rouen, France; Visiting Professor, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Nihon University, Japan; and, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea.

His contributions include: a time integration algorithm for the solution of highly nonlinear problems with emphasis for dynamic buckling problems; the staggered and partitioned solution procedures jointly developed with his colleagues at Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory for the simulation of coupled-field problems which have been adopted by others in their work either in its original form or varied form; a robust ANS 9-node shell element for high-accuracy buckling and nonlinear shell analysis; a simultaneous active control and structural design synthesis approach for space structures; a physical-coordinate based structural system identification technique; a structural damage detection technique based on localized measured flexibility. Recently, he and his long-time colleague Professor Carlos Felippa have been jointly working on the development of flexibility methods based on a localized version of the method of Lagrange multipliers that have been applied to parallel computing, system identification, structural health monitoring, modeling of multi-physics, contact-impact modeling, non-matching interfaces, localized active control, and flexibility-based structural component mode synthesis, modeling of structural joints, among others.

Professor Park is a Fellow of ASME and his current research interests are modeling of large-scale structural systems, membranous structures for space applications, MEMS modeling and design, and computational multi-physics. He can be reached via email: kcpark@titan.colorado.edu and home page at http://caswww.colorado.edu/KCPark.d/KCParkHome.d/KCPark.html

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