Laureate Professor
Scott Sloan
AO
Scott Sloan in 2015, portrait via the Royal Society
Born
Scott William Sloan

(1954-07-02)2 July 1954
Mildura, Victoria, Australia
Died23 April 2019(2019-04-23) (aged 64)[3]
NationalityAustralian
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Newcastle
ThesisNumerical analysis of incompressible and plastic solids using finite elements (1982)
Website

Scott William Sloan AO (2 July 1954[5] – 23 April 2019[3])FRS[1] FREng FAA FTSE was laureate Professor[6][7][8] of Civil Engineering at the University of Newcastle.[2][9][10][11][12]

Education

Sloan was educated at Monash University where he was awarded Bachelor of Engineering and Master of Engineering degrees.[4] He went on to study at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1981 for numerical analysis of incompressible and plastic solids using finite elements.[13][14]

Awards and honours

In 2009, Sloan was awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship.[15]

Sloan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2015. His certificate of election reads:[1]

Professor Sloan is distinguished for the development of pioneering new methods which can be used to predict the ultimate limit states of geostructures such as tunnels, dams, highways and foundations. Being able to estimate the limit load accurately is complicated by the fact that the behaviour of geomaterials is dilatant, nonlinear, heterogeneous, anisotropic and dependent on the pore pressures and ground water conditions. His work is based on the limit theorems of plasticity, applied via novel finite element techniques. His research has made fundamental contributions to the science of geomechanics, enabling engineers to model complex geomaterial behaviour in a robust manner, leading to cheaper and safer civil infrastructure worldwide.

Sloan was named as the Government of New South Wales Scientist of the Year in 2015[citation needed] and gave the Rankine Lecture in 2011.

In January 2018 Sloan was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for " distinguished service to education, particularly in the field of geotechnical engineering, as an academic and researcher, to professional associations, and as a mentor of young engineers".[16]

References

  1. ^ a b c Anon (2015). "Professor Scott Sloan FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b Scott W. Sloan publications indexed by Google Scholar
  3. ^ a b "News | Professor Scott Sloan". www.britishgeotech.org.
  4. ^ a b "Laureate Professor Scott Sloan". Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. Archived from the original on 4 March 2015.
  5. ^ Scott William Sloan at Library of Congress
  6. ^ Scott W. Sloan's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ "Laureate Professor Scott Sloan, School of Engineering". University of Newcastle. Archived from the original on 5 August 2014.
  8. ^ Scott Sloan directs the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Geotechnical Science and Engineering on YouTube
  9. ^ Sloan, S. W.; Kleeman, P. W. (1995). "Upper bound limit analysis using discontinuous velocity fields". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 127 (1–4): 293–314. Bibcode:1995CMAME.127..293S. doi:10.1016/0045-7825(95)00868-1.
  10. ^ Sloan, S. W. (1988). "Lower bound limit analysis using finite elements and linear programming". International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 12 (1): 61–77. Bibcode:1988IJNAM..12...61S. doi:10.1002/nag.1610120105.
  11. ^ Lyamin, A. V.; Sloan, S. W. (2002). "Lower bound limit analysis using non-linear programming". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 55 (5): 573. Bibcode:2002IJNME..55..573L. doi:10.1002/nme.511. S2CID 15967002.
  12. ^ Sloan, S. W.; Randolph, M. F. (1982). "Numerical prediction of collapse loads using finite element methods". International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 6 (1): 47–76. Bibcode:1982IJNAM...6...47S. doi:10.1002/nag.1610060105.
  13. ^ Sloan, Scott William (1981). Numerical analysis of incompressible and plastic solids using finite elements (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 69018673.
  14. ^ Sloan, S. W. (1987). "A fast algorithm for constructing Delaunay triangulations in the plane". Advances in Engineering Software. 9: 34–55. doi:10.1016/0141-1195(87)90043-X.
  15. ^ "ARC Laureate Fellowship". University of Newcastle. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  16. ^ Sloan, Scott (26 January 2018). "Australia Day 2018 Honours List".
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