Robert D. Cooke received his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechancis from the University of Illinois in 1963. Since then he has been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is now a professor in the Department of Engineering Physics. His interests include stress analysis and finite element methods. In addition to the present book, he is author of "Finite Element Modeling for Stress Analysis" (Wiley, 1995) and "Advanced Mechanics of Materials" (2nd Edtion, Prentice Hall, 1999, with Warren C. Young).
David S. Malkus received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1976. He spent two