Name, Academic Rank Uri Kirsch, Professor
Office Rabin Bldg.,   Room 816
Tel., Fax., E-mail  Tel: +972-4-8293049  Fax: +972-4-8293323   E-mail: kirsch@tx.technion.ac.il.
Teaching Activities Structural Analysis
Structural Design
Structural Optimization
Research Interest  Structural Optimization
Optimal Design
Year awarded doctorate 1970
Institution Technion
Field of doctorate Structural Optimization
Thesis title Optimum design of framed structures by partitioning into
substructures
Books published  1. Kirsch, U.,  "Optimum   Structural  Design - Concepts,  Methods and Applications", McGraw-Hill, New-York, 1981 (441 pages).
2. Kirsch, U., "A Solution Manual to Optimum Structural Design", McGraw-Hill, New-York, 1981 (95 pages).
3. Kirsch, U., "Optimum Structural Design", (a Japanese edition of Ref. 1), Maruzen, Tokyo, 1983.
4. Kirsch, U., "Fundamentals and Applications of Structural  Optimization", Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1993 (303 pages).
Recent journal publications (From January 1995)
  1. Kirsch, U. "Improved stiffness-based first-order approximations for structural optimization" J. AIAA, Vol. 33, 1995, 143-150.
  2. Rozvany, G.I.N., Bendsoe, M.P., Kirsch, U., "Layout Optimization of Structures", (Feature Article), Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol. 48, 1995, pp. 41-118.
  3. Kirsch, U., "Singular Optima in Geometrical Optimization of Structures", J. AIAA, Vol., 33, 1995, 1165-1167.
  4. Kirsch, U., and Liu, S., "Exact Structural Reanalysis by a First-Order Reduced Basis Approach", Structural optimization, Vol. 10, 1995, pp. 153-158.
  5. Kirsch, U., "Integration of Reduction and Expansion Processes in Layout Optimization", Structural optimization, Vol. 11, 1996, pp. 13-18.
  6. Kirsch, U., "Effective Scaling Procedures for Approximate Structural Optimization", Engineering Optimization, Vol. 27, 1996, pp. 43-64.
  7. Kirsch, U. "Rational Move Limits for Approximate Structural Optimization", ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 123, No. 2, 1997
  8. Kirsch, U., "Two-level Optimization of Prestressed Structures", Engineering Structures, Vol. 19, 1997, pp. 309-317.
  9. 11. Kirsch, U., and Liu, S., "Structural Reanalysis for General Layout Modifications", AIAA Journal, Vol. 35, 1997, pp. 382-388.
  10. 12. Kirsch, U., "How to Optimize Prestressed Concrete Beams", in "Guide to Structural Optimization", Ed. J.S. Arora, Special ASCE Publication, No. 90, 1997.
 Present positions at Technion
&present public  positions		   Senior Vice-President, Technion