In 1968 he became the Founder Editor of the International Journalfor Numerical Methods in Engineering which still remains today the major journalin this ®eld. He established that department as one of the primary centres of ®niteelement research. He was the head of theCivil Engineering Department at the University of Wales Swansea between 1961and 1989. He holds the UNESCO Chair of Numerical Methods in Engineeringat the Technical University of Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Zienkiewicz, CBE, FRS, FREng is Professor Emeritus and Directorof the Institute for Numerical Methods in Engineering at the University of Wales,Swansea, UK. The Finite Element MethodFifth editionVolume 2: Solid MechanicsProfessor O.C.
