Words of Dr. Wieslaw Binienda "cutting the birch with only a small amount of damage to the edge of the wing" cause dubts about his professional qualifications.
Dr. Wieslaw Binienda will discuss this case at the Earth and Space 2012 Conference which will be held in Pasadena, California, April 15-18, 2012.
Symposium 6: Ballistic Impact and Crashworthiness Response of Aerospace Structures
Co-Chair: Wieslaw Binienda, Ph.D., F. ASCE, University of Akron
ASCE News, November 2007 Volume 32, Number 11
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Wieslaw K. Binienda, Ph.D., M.ASCE, the chair of the civil engineering department in the University of Akron's College of Engineering, has received the Turning Goals into Reality Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa) for his work on a nasa team dealing with containment concepts as they relate to jet engines. Binienda's contributions to the team included numerical simulations in impact and postimpact experiments; material and model development; and assistance to General Electric, Honeywell International, and Williams International in the design process for jet engine composite containment systems. The author of more than 80 publications and the recipient of numerous awards, Binienda became a member of the Akron faculty in 1988. His research interests include composite materials testing and processing, material characterization, micromechanics-based modeling, and the implementation of such rigorous techniques as singular integral equations for the analysis of composite damage and failure mechanisms. After obtaining a master's degree in Poland from the Warsaw University of Technology, Binienda earned a master's degree and a doctorate, both in mechanical engineering, at Drexel University.
If you need his CV: The University of Akron : Individual Faculty Profile