Walter Pilkey
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Walter Pilkey (1936–2007)[1] was a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Virginia. He earned his PhD from Penn State.[2]
His areas of professional interest included crash safety, shock and computational mechanics. He wrote or co-authored more than 30 books and 300 professional articles. He founded Shock and Vibration, a journal published in association with SAVIAC and the limited distribution journal Critical Technology in Shock and Vibration, also in association with SAVIAC. He was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Finite Elements in Analysis and Design.
Pilkey was a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
