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Biography of Professor Magnus Langseth
International Journal of Impact Engineering 108 (2017) 1
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Biography of Professor Magnus Langseth
Magnus Langseth was born in Stjørdal east of Trondheim 18 June 1952. As son of an officer in the Norwegian Air Force, Magnus spent his childhood close to different airfields and other military installations: Trondheim, rlandet and Lillestrøm. He entered the former Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim in 1972 and graduated with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1976. His first employer was the consultant engineer Reinertsen in Trondheim. Here, Magnus designed steel and concrete structures from 1977 until 1983. Magnus returned to the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1983. Supervised by Professor Per Kr Larsen, Magnus took his doctorate in 1988 with the thesis Dropped objects: plugging capacity of steel plates. Thereafter, Magnus worked one year in a property development company before he decided to return to the university in 1989. Since then, he has been an associate professor (1989 1995) and professor (1995 !) at the Department of Structural Engineering. After reorganization, the university was renamed the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 1996. Magnus Langseth’s main field of research has been impact and crashworthiness of metallic materials and structures. Initially working with steel, he turned his interest towards aluminium in the early 1990s. Other materials have also gained attention. Trained as a civil engineer, Magnus always tries to understand the important physical mechanisms in the problem at hand. This information is essential for analytical or numerical calculations, but also very useful when it comes to design of robust experimental set-ups. Indeed, Magnus is an outstanding experimentalist, and has always emphasized the value of test rigs where materials, components or structures can be investigated with well-defined boundary conditions and up-to-date instrumentation. Magnus has been a key person in establishing and developing the research group SIMLab (Structural Impact Laboratory) at the Department of Structural Engineering. During the last 25 years, considerable investments have been made in the development of state-ofthe-art test facilities for material testing as well as impact and crashworthiness testing of components and structures. Equally important, Magnus has had a clear view of the importance of insight in material modelling and application of numerical tools in analyses of problems involving transient dynamics. SIMLab has grown significantly since http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2017.07.010 0734-743X/© 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
the 1990s, and now includes six faculty members, a number of researchers and post.doc fellows, some 20 PhD students, and two laboratory technicians. A great moment in the history of SIMLab was when the Research Council of Norway awarded the research group a Centre for Researchbased Innovation for the period 2007 2014. Such a centre would not have been possible without Magnus’ exceptional skills in defining and carrying out research projects in close cooperation with industry and public entities. Starting with funding from Statoil during his doctoral work in the 1980s, the main collaboration partners from 1990 onwards have been Hydro and the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency. Since 2000, several automotive companies have cooperated with Magnus and SIMLab, and so has various types of Norwegian industry. Magnus is outstanding in combining research with transfer of know-how to various industrial partners. The Research Council of Norway has acknowledged the research philosophy and the successful dissemination by awarding SIMLab a Centre for Research-based Innovation also for the period 2015 2023, now with the name CASA Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis. As the author of around 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals, Magnus Langseth is a well-respected scientist in the international community within the field of impact and crashworthiness. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Impact Engineering since 2009. Before that, he served as a regional editor for three years. He is or has been a member of the editorial board of other journals, and he is also involved in the scientific committees of several conferences. Moreover, he has been an elected member of the board of DYMAT since 2012, and he is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy daille Albert of Technological Sciences. He was awarded the “Me te fran¸c aise de me tallurgie et de mate riaux in Portevin” by Socie 2005, and in 2009 he was appointed Honorary Doctor at the Uni de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambre sis in France. versite Yet, the scientific career of Magnus Langseth has had the greatest impact locally at the research group of SIMLab in Trondheim, Norway. The group has enjoyed the pleasure of being headed by a creative and engaged scientist who has great skills in communication, cooperation, and important in research asking the right questions. Magnus Langseth has created a stimulating working atmosphere combining science, education, external relations and good collegial relations. His influence will remain for years through the approximately 30 PhD projects where he has been or is a supervisor. Many of these candidates are now employed at academic institutions or research institutes. The investments in laboratory facilities also have a long-lasting impact both at NTNU and for the scientific community. Tore Børvik, Arild Holm Clausen and Odd Sture Hopperstad SIMLab, Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
International Journal of Impact Engineering journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijimpeng
Biography of Professor Magnus Langseth
Magnus Langseth was born in Stjørdal east of Trondheim 18 June 1952. As son of an officer in the Norwegian Air Force, Magnus spent his childhood close to different airfields and other military installations: Trondheim, rlandet and Lillestrøm. He entered the former Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in Trondheim in 1972 and graduated with a master’s degree in Civil Engineering in 1976. His first employer was the consultant engineer Reinertsen in Trondheim. Here, Magnus designed steel and concrete structures from 1977 until 1983. Magnus returned to the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1983. Supervised by Professor Per Kr Larsen, Magnus took his doctorate in 1988 with the thesis Dropped objects: plugging capacity of steel plates. Thereafter, Magnus worked one year in a property development company before he decided to return to the university in 1989. Since then, he has been an associate professor (1989 1995) and professor (1995 !) at the Department of Structural Engineering. After reorganization, the university was renamed the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in 1996. Magnus Langseth’s main field of research has been impact and crashworthiness of metallic materials and structures. Initially working with steel, he turned his interest towards aluminium in the early 1990s. Other materials have also gained attention. Trained as a civil engineer, Magnus always tries to understand the important physical mechanisms in the problem at hand. This information is essential for analytical or numerical calculations, but also very useful when it comes to design of robust experimental set-ups. Indeed, Magnus is an outstanding experimentalist, and has always emphasized the value of test rigs where materials, components or structures can be investigated with well-defined boundary conditions and up-to-date instrumentation. Magnus has been a key person in establishing and developing the research group SIMLab (Structural Impact Laboratory) at the Department of Structural Engineering. During the last 25 years, considerable investments have been made in the development of state-ofthe-art test facilities for material testing as well as impact and crashworthiness testing of components and structures. Equally important, Magnus has had a clear view of the importance of insight in material modelling and application of numerical tools in analyses of problems involving transient dynamics. SIMLab has grown significantly since http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2017.07.010 0734-743X/© 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
the 1990s, and now includes six faculty members, a number of researchers and post.doc fellows, some 20 PhD students, and two laboratory technicians. A great moment in the history of SIMLab was when the Research Council of Norway awarded the research group a Centre for Researchbased Innovation for the period 2007 2014. Such a centre would not have been possible without Magnus’ exceptional skills in defining and carrying out research projects in close cooperation with industry and public entities. Starting with funding from Statoil during his doctoral work in the 1980s, the main collaboration partners from 1990 onwards have been Hydro and the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency. Since 2000, several automotive companies have cooperated with Magnus and SIMLab, and so has various types of Norwegian industry. Magnus is outstanding in combining research with transfer of know-how to various industrial partners. The Research Council of Norway has acknowledged the research philosophy and the successful dissemination by awarding SIMLab a Centre for Research-based Innovation also for the period 2015 2023, now with the name CASA Centre for Advanced Structural Analysis. As the author of around 170 articles in peer-reviewed journals, Magnus Langseth is a well-respected scientist in the international community within the field of impact and crashworthiness. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Impact Engineering since 2009. Before that, he served as a regional editor for three years. He is or has been a member of the editorial board of other journals, and he is also involved in the scientific committees of several conferences. Moreover, he has been an elected member of the board of DYMAT since 2012, and he is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy daille Albert of Technological Sciences. He was awarded the “Me te fran¸c aise de me tallurgie et de mate riaux in Portevin” by Socie 2005, and in 2009 he was appointed Honorary Doctor at the Uni de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambre sis in France. versite Yet, the scientific career of Magnus Langseth has had the greatest impact locally at the research group of SIMLab in Trondheim, Norway. The group has enjoyed the pleasure of being headed by a creative and engaged scientist who has great skills in communication, cooperation, and important in research asking the right questions. Magnus Langseth has created a stimulating working atmosphere combining science, education, external relations and good collegial relations. His influence will remain for years through the approximately 30 PhD projects where he has been or is a supervisor. Many of these candidates are now employed at academic institutions or research institutes. The investments in laboratory facilities also have a long-lasting impact both at NTNU and for the scientific community. Tore Børvik, Arild Holm Clausen and Odd Sture Hopperstad SIMLab, Department of Structural Engineering, NTNU