Barry H.V. Topping

Barry H.V. Topping FIMA (born 14 February 1952) is a British authority on computational mechanics. He was Professor of Computational Mechanics at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University where his work was mainly concerned with parallel computing, genetic algorithms, neural networks, finite element methods and fluid-structure interaction. He is now emeritus Professor at Heriot-Watt University and an honorary professor at the University of Pécs in Hungary.

Education Barry Hilary Valentine Topping was born in Manchester on 14 February 1952.

Academic positions Between 1978 and 1988, Topping was lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and during that time was also made a Von-Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Stuttgart between 1986 and 1987. and was the founding editor of two publications: Structural Engineering Review and the International Journal of Computing Systems in Engineering.

Awards In 1990 Topping was awarded a Telford Premium by the Institution of Civil Engineers for his paper Theorems Of Geometric Variation For Engineering Structures. Topping, B.H.V., Bahreininejad, A., Neural Computing for Structural Mechanics, Saxe-Coburg Publications, Edinburgh, UK, 1997 Topping, B.H.V., Khan, A.I., Parallel Finite Element Computations, Saxe-Coburg Publications, Edinburgh, UK, 1996