Ted Belytschko

Who is Ted Belytschko?

Ted Bohdan Belytschko is an American mechanical engineer. He is Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor of Computational Mechanics at Northwestern University. He works in field of computational solid mechanics and is known for development of methods like element-free Galerkin method and the Extended finite element method.

Belytschko received his B.S. in Engineering Sciences and his Ph.D. in Mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He was named in ISI Database as the fourth most cited engineering researcher in January 2004. He is also the editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.