Omri Rand

b. Israel 1954. B.Sc., Technion, 1980. M.Sc., Technion, 1982. D.Sc., Technion, 1985. 1985-1987, University of Maryland, USA. At Technion since 1987, 1993/4 U.S. Army Advanced Systems Research & Analysis Office, NASA Ames Research Center, USA, Professor since 2003, holding the Shirley and Burt Harris Academic Chair since 2005.

RAPID – Rotorcraft Analysis for Preliminary Design – software package

The Annual Israeli Symposium on Composite Materials and Structures

Science and Engineering of Composite Materials – Journal

Analytical Methods in Anisotropic Elasticity – Publisher , Authors

Analytical methods in anisotropic elasticity. Theoretical modeling of thin-walled and solid composite beams. Modeling of composite helicopter blades. Rotorcraft and rotary-wing theory. Helicopter vibration suppression and stability augmentation. Helicopters faults – simulation, detection and identification. Experimental methodologies for studying the structural dynamics of composite blades and wing/rotor systems. Structural dynamics, response and stability of nonlinear periodic systems. Thermoelastic analysis of space structures.

“Experimental study of the natural frequencies of rotating thin-walled composite blades”, J. of Thin-Walled Structures, 21, 2, 1995, pp. 191-207.

“Fundamental closed-form solutions for solid and thin-walled composite beams including a complete out-of-plane warping model”, International J. of Solids and Structures, 35, 21, 1998, pp. 2775-2793.

“The influence of composite induced couplings on tilt rotor whirl flutter stability in forward flight”, J. of the American Helicopter Society, 43, 2, April 1998, pp. 133-145 (with S.M. Barkai).

“Similarities between solid and thin-walled composite beams by analytic approach”, J. of Aircraft, 35, 4, July-Aug. 1998, pp. 604-615.

“Analysis of elastically coupled thick-walled composite blades”, International J. of Solids and Structures, 37, 2000, pp. 1019-1043 (with O. Rappel).

“Analytic extraction of the elastic coupling mechanisms in composite blades”, Composite Structures J., 49, 2000, pp. 399-413 (with J. Alkahe).

“The influence of the in-plane warping on the behavior of thin-walled beams”, J. of Thin-Walled Structures, 37, 2000, pp. 363-390 (with D. Mazor).

“Bending and extension of thin-walled composite beams of open cross-sectional geometry”, J. of Applied Mechanics, 67, 4, December 2000, pp. 813-818.

“Nonlinear in-plane warping deformation in elastically coupled open thin-walled beams”, J. of Computers and Structures, 79, 2001, pp. 281-291.

“A multilevel analysis of solid laminated composite beams”, International J. of Solids and Structures, 38, 2001, pp. 4017-4043.

“Analysis of anisotropic beams: An analytic approach”, J. of Applied Mechanics, 68, 4, July 2001, pp. 674-678 (with V. Rovenski).