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Professor James (Jim) K. Wight has been one of the most remarkable researchers and educators in the field of reinforced concrete structures in the past several decades. It was while a student at the University of Illinois that Jim Wight made his first major contributions to the field of behavior and design of reinforced concrete structures, particularly under earthquake excitations. He was likely the first to study the phenomenon of shear strength decay in reinforced concrete columns during large shear reversals. He also identified and explained the "disappearance" of the yield plateau in longitudinal reinforcing bars of flexural members subjected to moment gradient. Referring to this, Mete Sozen later said that had Jim been in the field of Physics, he would have won the Nobel Prize.

In 1973, Jim Wight joined the faculty at the University of Michigan. In a career that has spanned over 40 years as a Professor of Structural Engineering, Jim has made enormous contributions to the field of behavior and design of reinforced concrete members, including beam-column and slab-column connections, structural walls, and deep beams. Much of his research has led to key advances in the safety and performance of reinforced concrete building structures during seismic events. Jim has also contributed to the education of thousands of structural engineers as co-author (with Professor James MacGregor) of the widely used textbook Reinforced Concrete - Mechanics

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Published: 10/01/2016 ISBN(s): 9781945487248 File Size: 1 file , 31 MB