ASCE Journal Honors Urs Meier
Posted on July 14th, 2011
ISHMII Leader Urs Meier Honored by ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction
The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the International Institute for FRP in Construction (IIFC) have published a joint occasional special issue of the Journal of Composites for Construction in honor of Professor Urs Meier. Edited by Lawrence C. Bank and Kenneth W. Neale, this issue recognizes Professor Meier’s pioneering contributions to the field of fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) in construction. Eleven authors from Canada, Greece, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the USA contributed papers that represent the strong connection between themselves and Professor Meier or topics that relate to his long history of research and influence in the field of FFP.
Professor Meier has an illustrious career in the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa). Empa is a founding organization of ISHMII and Professor Meier serves on the ISHMII Council and Executive Committee as well as in many noted international organizations.
The leaders and members of ISHMII are pleased to recognize and celebrate our colleague Urs Meier for his life-ling achievements and extend our congratulations. We also note that this is only the second time that this prominent journal has so honored a person with a special issue.
The Journal of Composites for Construction, March/April 2011, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 125-247 can be accessed at http://ascelibrary.org/cco/resource/1/jccof2/v15/i2. The full article honoring Professor Meier may be read on-line or downloaded at http://ascelibrary.org/cco/resource/1/jccof2/v15/i2/p125_s1?bypassSSO=1 .
Please extend your good wishes to Professor Meier at urs.meier@empa.ch.