Isaac Elishakoff

• Frank M. Freimann Visiting Chair Professorship,[6][7] University of Notre Dame, United States 1985/86
• Henry J. Massman Jr. Visiting Chair Professorship,[8] University of Notre Dame, Fall Semester, United States, 1986/87 (inaugural holder)
• Fellow of American Academy of Mechanics,[9] 1991 ("For outstanding achievements and pioneering contributions in random vibrations”.)
• Visiting Castiliagno Distinguished Professorship, University of Palermo, Italy 1992
• Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo, Japan 1992
• ASME Distinguished Lectureship (1996–2002)
• Visiting W.T. Koiter Chair Professorship, Delft University of Technology 2000 (inaugural holder)
• Visiting Professorship, Sapienza University of Rome,[10] Rome, Italy 2005, 2010, 2017
• Fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science, Kyoto University, Japan (2006–2007)
• Visiting Eminent Scholar, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, P.R. China (2007, 2009, 2010)
• Foreign Member, Georgian National Academy of Sciences[11] (“For seminal contributions to the theoretical and applied mechanics”) (2010)
• Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts[12] (2011)
• Fellow, ASME[13] (2011)
• Visiting Distinguished Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, United Kingdom (2015)
• Worcester Reed Warner Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016[14]
• Visiting Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, 2014–2018
• In 2019 he was awarded the William B. Johnson Inter-Professional Founders Award “In recognition for a lifetime achievement of accomplishments in applied mechanics research and instruction which affect world-wide advancement of business, culture, and learning”, by the Engineers Council.
• In 2019 he served as the S. P. Timoshenko Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University.

• ASME International Congress and Exposition, Lake Buena Vista, FL. Nov. 2009; special “Symposium on Stability, Structural Reliability, and Random Vibrations in Honor of Prof. Isaac Elishakoff” with 3 keynote lecturers and 18 contributed lectures by authors of 12 countries (2009)
• "International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics" published a special issue, Vol. 11, number 4, in Honor of Prof. I. Elishakoff[15] (2011)

• I. Elishakoff, Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures, Wiley‑Interscience, New York, 1983, XII + pp. 489; ISBN 978-981-3149-84-7.
• Yakov Ben‑Haim and I. Elishakoff, Convex Models of Uncertainty in Applied Mechanics, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990, XVII + pp. 221; ISBN 978-0444816245.
• Gabriel Cederbaum, I. Elishakoff, Jacob Aboudi and Liviu Librescu, Random Vibration and Reliability of Composite Structures, Technomic, Lancaster, 1992, XIII + pp. 191; ISBN 9780877628651.
• I. Elishakoff, Yukweng Lin and Liping Zhu, Probabilistic and Convex Modeling of Acoustically Excited Structures, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1994, VIII + pp. 296; ISBN 9781483290355.
• Elishakoff I, Probabilistic Theory of Structures, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 1999, XVI + pp. 492; ISBN 0-486-40691-1
• Elishakoff, Yiwei Li and James H. Starnes, Jr., Non‑Classical Problems in the Theory of Elastic Stability, Cambridge University Press, 2001, XVI +pp. 336; ISBN 0-521-78210-4.
• Elishakoff and Yongjian Ren, Large Variation Finite Element Method for Stochastic Problems, Oxford University Press, 2003, IX + pp. 260; ISBN 0-19-852631-8.
• I. Elishakoff, Safety Factors and Reliability: Friends or Foes?, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004, X + pp. 295; ISBN 1-4020-1779-0.
• I. Elishakoff, Eigenvalues of Inhomogeneous Structures: Unusual Closed-Form Solutions of Semi-Inverse Problems, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2005, XIV + pp. 729; ISBN 0-8493-2892-6.
• I. Elishakoff and Makoto Ohsaki, Optimization and Anti-Optimization of Structures under Uncertainty, Imperial College Press, London, 2010, XV+ pp. 402; ISBN 978-1-84816-477-2.
• I. Elishakoff, D. Pentaras, K. Dujat, C. Versaci, G. Muscolino, J. Storch, S. Bucas, N. Challamel, T. Natsuki, Y.Y. Zhang, C.M. Wang and G. Ghyselinck, Carbon Nanotubes and Nano Sensors : Vibrations, Buckling, and Ballistic Impact, ISTE-Wiley, London, 2012, XIII+pp. 421;ISBN 978-1-84821-345-6.
• I. Elishakoff, Resolution of Twentieth Century Conundrum in Elastic Stability, World Scientific/Imperial College Press, Singapore, 2014; pp. 333, ISBN 978-981-4583-53-4.
• I. Elishakoff, D. Pentaras and C. Gentilini, Mechanics of Functionally Graded Material Structures, World Scientific/Imperial College Press, Singapore; pp. 323, ISBN 978-981-4656-58-0, 2015.
• I. Elishakoff, Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Random Strength of Materials, Random Vibration, and Buckling, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-3149-84-7, 2017.
• I. Elishakoff, Solution Manual to Accompany Probabilistic Methods in the Theory of Structures: Problems with Complete, Worked Through Solutions, World Scientific, Singapore, ISBN 978-981-3201-10-1, 2018.
• I. Elishakoff, Handbook on Timoshenko-Ehrenfest Beam and Uflyand-Mindlin Plate Theories, World Scientific, Singapore,ISBN 978-981-3236-51-6, 2019.

In 1986, Dr. I. Elishakoff co-organized the European Mechanics Colloquium on "Refined Dynamical Theories of Beams, Plates and Shells, and Their Applications" in Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1990 he co-organized the Second International Conference on Stochastic Structural Dynamics, in Boca Raton, Florida.
In 1990, he co-organized the Symposium on "Symbolic Computations and Their Impact on Mechanics" at the 111th Winter Annual Meeting of the ASME, in Dallas, TX.
In 1992, he co-organized a joint FAU-University of Federal Armed Forces-Hamburg (FRG) Conference on "Recent Developments in Solid Mechanics".
In 1996 he organized an "International Conference on Uncertain Structures" in Miami and Western Caribbean.
In 1997 he coordinated a special course, "Uncertainty in Engineering Probability, Fuzziness and Anti-Optimization" in the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences (CISM), in Udine, Italy, within its Hertz Session. He also has organized numerous sessions at national and international meetings worldwide, including the sessions at the ASME meetings.
In 2001 he co-organized a special course, "Stability of Structures: Modern Problems and Unconventional Solutions” at CISM, Udine, Italy, Europe.
In 2005, he organized a special course “Mechanical Vibrations: Where Do We Stand?” at CISM, Udine, Italy, Europe.
In 2011 he co-organized a special course in “Nondeterministic Mechanics”, at CISM, Udine, Italy, Europe.

The proceedings of the above conferences appeared in the following 14 edited volumes:

• I. Elishakoff and Richard H. Lyon, (editors), Random Vibration‑Status and Recent Developments, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1986, XX + pp. 565; ISBN 9780444426659.
• I. Elishakoff and Horst Irretier, (editors), Refined Dynamical Theories of Beams, Plates and Shels and their Applications, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1987, XII + pp. 436; ISBN 9783540175735.
• I. Elishakoff, Johann Arbocz, Charles D. Babcock, Jr. and Avinoam Libai, (editors), Buckling of Structures‑Theory and Experiment, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1988, XX + pp. 449; ISBN 978-0444704740.
• T. Ariaratnam, Gerhart Schuëller and I. Elishakoff, (editors), Stochastic Structural Dynamics‑Progress in Theory and Applications, Elsevier Applied Science Publishers, London, 1988, XX + pp. 375; ISBN 978-1851662111.
• Chuh Mei, Howard F. Wolfe and I. Elishakoff, (editors), Vibration and Behavior of Composite Structures, ASME Press, New York, 1989, V + pp. 73; ISBN 978-0791803974.
• Fabio Casciati, I. Elishakoff and J. Brian Roberts, (editors), Nonlinear Structural Systems under Random Conditions, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 1990, pp. 386; ISBN 9780444888037.
• Ahmed K. Noor, I. Elishakoff and Greg Hulbert, (editors), Symbolic Computations and Their Impact on Mechanics, ASME Press, New York, 1990, XV + pp. 376; ISBN 978-0791805985.
• David Hui and I. Elishakoff, (editors), Impact and Buckling of Structures, ASME Press, New York, 1990, V + pp. 99; ISBN 978-0791805893.
• Y.K. Lin and I. Elishakoff, (editors), Stochastic Structural Dynamics 1‑New Theoretical Developments, Springer, Berlin, 1991, XIII + pp. 346; ISBN 9783642845314.
• I. Elishakoff and Y. K. Lin, (editors), Stochastic Structural Dynamics 2 ‑ New Applications, Springer, Berlin, 1991, XIII + pp. 351; ISBN 978-3-642-84534-5.
• I. Elishakoff (editor), Whys and Hows in Uncertainty Modeling, Springer, Vienna, 1999, VII + pp. 393, ISBN 3-211-83155-X.
• Alexander P. Seyranian and I. Elishakoff (editors), Modern Problems of Structural Stability, Springer, Vienna, 2002, III + pp. 394, ISBN 3-211-83697-7.
• I. Elishakoff (editor), Mechanical Vibration: Where Do We Stand, Springer, Vienna, 2007, IV + pp. 488, ISBN 3-211-68586-3.
• I. Elishakoff and C. Soize (editors), Non-Deterministic Mechanics, Springer, Vienna, 2012, II+ pp. 356, ISBN 978-3-7091-1305-9.