Biographical sketch and publications of M. A. Biot

✍ Scribed by M.D. Trifunac

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 111 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0267-7261
• DOI: 10.1016/j.soildyn.2006.01.020

✦ Synopsis

A listing of Biot's many awards, his memberships and fellowships in learned societies, together with a brief description of Biot the man, can be found in [1].

During his remarkably productive career, spanning the 57 years from 1928, when he was an engineering student at Louvain, until his death in 1985, Biot was the author of 179 published papers -or 180, if we include the one that now appears in this special issue (Biot's papers are listed in Appendix A, and his books in Appendix B). Biot's publications cover an unusually broad range of subjects, and continue to make an extraordinary impact in science and engineering, as evidenced by the number of citations that they continue to receive [2]. The principal subject areas to which Biot contributed can be summarized briefly as follows.

Earthquake Engineering (papers 10, 20, 41, and 45). Biot started to develop the concept of the response spectrum, based on recorded earthquake accelerations, in his doctoral dissertation of 1932. He proposed the use of spectral envelopes, based on a family of recorded accelerograms, and developed engineering design procedures using a