About Ray W. Clough
Lived 1920 – 2016 (aged 96). Ray W. Clough was an American engineer and university teacher.
Ray William Clough (July 23, 1920 – October 8, 2016) was Byron L. and Elvira E. Nishkian Professor of structural engineering in the department of civil engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the founders of the finite element method (FEM). His 1956 article was one of the first applications of this computational method.
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Who was Ray W. Clough?
American engineer
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Ray W. Clough was born on 23 July 1920 in Seattle.
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Ray W. Clough died on 8 October 2016.
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Ray W. Clough was an engineer and university teacher.
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Ray W. Clough was American.
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