Klaus-Jrgen Bathe

Klaus-Jrgen Bathe is a Professor of Mechanical

Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and founder of ADINA R & D, who specializes in
computational mechanics.[1] Bathe is considered to be
one of the pioneers in the eld of nite element analysis and its applications.[2]

Formulations of large deformations of solids (the

Total and Updated Lagrangian formulations).

Time integration schemes for the dynamic analysis of structures and uid-structure interactions (the
Bathe method).

Solution techniques for large eigenvalue problems

(the subspace iteration method).
Solution techniques for contact problems (the
constraint-function method).

Early life and education

Born in Berlin, Bathe had his high school education at

Schemes for fully coupled uid-structure interacOldenburg in Federal Republic of Germany. He then
went to South Africa, where he earned his graduate
tions and multi-physics problems.
degree in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechan Mathematical analysis of nite element schemes.
ics from the University of Cape Town in 1967. Bathe
received his M.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from
The book Finite Element Procedures used as a
University of Calgary, Canada in 1969. Then, he received
standard reference text in academia and industry.
his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of California, Berkeley in 1971.[3] His thesis was on numerical soBathe is widely recognized to bridge the worlds of
lution of large eigenvalue problems, where he developed
academia and industry in computational mechanics. [7]
the subspace iteration method.

4 Honors and awards

Career

Bathe has received many honorary doctorates from institutions around the world: Slovak Academy of Sciences
and Technical University of Zilina, Slovakia; Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany; Technical University of Rzeszow, Poland; Universidad Politcnica de
Madrid, Spain; University of Bucharest, Romania; University of Miskolc, Hungary; University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina; and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

During his time as a post-doctoral fellow (19721974) at

UC Berkeley, Bathe et al. developed the nite element
programs SAP IV and NONSAP, which have been used
by thousands of individuals and organizations in research
and practice and had a major impact in advancing the nite element method. In 1974 he started the development
of the ADINA system. Soon after, he joined the department of mechanical engineering at MIT.

[1] [7]

In 1986, he founded ADINA R&D, Inc.[4]

Bathe has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in

Engineering by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientic Company.[8]

Major contributions

5 Editorial activities

Bathe has made fundamental contributions in the nite

element analysis of structures, heat transfer, eld problems, CFD, and uid-structure interactions. These contributions are widely used in commercial software codes.
Specically, the following contributions for reliable, accurate and ecient nite element analyses are widely employed: [5] [6]

Bathe currently serves as the Co-Editor of the Journal of

Computers & Structures.[9] He is also the editor of the
Springers book series on Computational Fluid and Solid
Mechanics.[10] He has organized the twelve bi-yearly conferences Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis and ADINA, at M.I.T., 19771999, and the seven bi-yearly con Formulation of shell nite elements (the MITC shell ferences Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics [11]
elements).
at M.I.T., 2001-2013.
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Klaus-Jrgen Bathe Leadership

Program

The goal of this Program is to produce graduates coming

from any faculty of the University of Cape Town, South
Africa with outstanding leadership qualities and a strong
sense of social justice, who will go on to play leading and
signicant roles in business, government, industry and
civil society in South Africa and on the African continent.
[12]

Books

K.J. Bathe, "Finite Element Procedures in Engineering Analysis", Prentice-Hall, 1982.

K.J. Bathe, "Finite Element Procedures", 1st Edition,
Prentice Hall, 1996; 2nd Edition, Watertown, MA:
Klaus-Jrgen Bathe, 2014.
D. Chapelle and K.J. Bathe, "The Finite Element
Analysis of Shells Fundamentals", 1st Edition,
Springer, 2003; 2nd edition, Springer, 2011.
M. Kojic and K.J. Bathe, "Inelastic Analysis of Solids
and Structures", Springer, 2005.
K.J. Bathe, "To Enrich Life", Amazon.com, 2007.
M.L. Bucalem, K.J. Bathe, "The Mechanics of Solids
and Structures Hierarchical Modeling and the Finite Element Solution", Springer, 2011.

Video Courses on Finite Element

Methods
MIT Video Lectures: "Finite Element Procedures for
Solids and Structures - Linear Analysis". [13]
MIT Video Lectures: "Finite Element Procedures for
Solids and Structures - Nonlinear Analysis". [14]

[5] J.W. Tedesco and J. Walczak, Preface, Computers &

Structures, 81: 455-462, 2003
[6] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe (2014). Finite element Procedures
(2nd ed.). Klaus-Jrgen Bathe. ISBN 978-0-97900492-6.
[7] Bridging the world of academia and industry. University
of Cape Town News.
[8] ISI Highly Cited Author - Klaus-Jrgen Bathe
[9] K.J. Bathe Co-Editor of Journal of Computers & Structures. Retrieved 2009-10-16.

K.J. Bathe and E.L. Wilson, "Numerical Methods in

Finite Element Analysis", Prentice-Hall, 1976.

EXTERNAL LINKS

References

[1] K.J. Bathe at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

[2] Anwar Bg, O. (2003). Giants of Engineering Science.
Troubador Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-899293-52-0.
[3] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe (2008). To Enrich Life. Klaus-Jrgen
Bathe. ISBN 0979004926.
[4] ADINA Finite Element Analysis Software. adina.com.

[10] K.J. Bathe Editor of the Springers book series on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics. Retrieved 200910-19.
[11] Seventh MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and
Solid Mechanics.
[12] Klaus-Jrgen Bathe Leadership Program.
[13] MIT Video Lectures: Finite Element Procedures for
Solids and Structures - Linear Analysis.
[14] MIT Video Lectures: Finite Element Procedures for
Solids and Structures - Nonlinear Analysis.

10 External links
Special issue on K. J. Bathes 60th birthday anniversary, preface in Computers & Structures
Founder of ADINA R&D, Inc.

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