Professor
The Harold D. Jolley Professor
Education
Ph.D., Northwestern, 1966
M.S., University of Illinois, 1960
B.S, University of Illinois, 1959
Biography
Professor Gould is recognized as one of the leading authorities in the analysis of shell structures. His work in shell analysis has been used for many industrial structures including chimneys and hyperbolic cooling towers. Professor Gould joined the faculty at Washington University in 1966.
A Senior U.S. Scientist Award enabled Professor Gould to spend a year as a guest professor at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. He has also served as a guest professor at the University of Sydney, Australia and the Shanghai University of Technology, China and has lectured at many universities in the U.S. and worldwide.
Professor Gould is the author of books in the fields of thin shell analysis; earthquake and wind engineering; introductory elasticity; and finite element analysis. Also, he is the founding editor of the prestigious journal, ENGINEERING STRUCTURES and continues as Editor-in-Chief.
In the American Society of Civil Engineers, Professor Gould has served on several national and regional committees and was the chair of the Committee on Thin Shell Design. He was also recognized by the St. Louis Section with their Professional recognition Award for lifetime service. He served as the chair of the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission, and as the Program Coordinator for Education and the St. Louis Regional Director of the Mid-America Earthquake Center. The education program of the MAE Center has received very positive reviews from NSF during the annual site visits and the Consequence - Based Engineering Institute developed by Professor Gould and his colleagues is a new and exciting vehicle for cross-disciplinary earthquake engineering education.
Research
Professor Gould's research activities have centered on thin shell structures with applications to finite element analysis, biomedical engineering, earthquake engineering, and the structural design of thin-shell structures. Numerous technical papers have accrued from these studies and Professor Gould became an internationally recognized authority on the design of hyperbolic cooling towers. The development of accurate methods for the dynamic analysis of these enormous structures remains an enduring achievement of Professor Gould and his students.