 | NIKOLA HAJDIN |
Full member
Department of Technical Sciences
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (video)
Membership of SASA
Corresponding member from 28 May 1970
Full member from 22 April 1976
Field of study
Civil engineering (theory of elasticity, material resistance, theory of construction) – arch dams and bridges
Education
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, BSc (1951), PhD in technical sciences (1956), specialized training in a study department of Zschokke Steel Construction Factory in Switzerland
Career
Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, full professor
Visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich from 1971 to 1973;
visiting scholar at the Swiss Association for Steel Structures;
retired 1996
Positions in SASA
SASA vice president for natural sciences field (1994-2003)
SASA presiedent (2003-2015)
Accession speech
Department presentation: The Theory of Thin-Walled Rods and their Application in Technology. Printed in PI/SANU 452 (1972)159–164; Accession speech: The Theory of Structures and Contemporary Civil Engineering Structures. Delivered on 13 January 1977. Spomenica SANU 4 (1978) 39–47.
Membership of other academies
SAZU, a foreign member from 23 April 1987; Academie Europeenne des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres (Paris), a full member from 28 September 2002; foreign member of The Academy of Athens from February 2005; European Academy of Sciences in Liege (Belgium) from 2012
Membership of specialist associations
International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) –president of Yugoslav branch; Yugoslav Structural Engineers Association, president (1979-1982); president of the Yugoslav Committee of the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM); Swiss Association for Steel Structures; Society of Structural Engineers and Technicians of Novi Sad; Yugoslav Society for Mechanics (honorary member); Hellenic Society for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1998)
Membership of editorial boards
Costruzioni metalliche, member of an international scientific board
Awards and recognitions
October Prize of the City of Belgrade (1959);
October Prize of the City of Novi Sad (1981);
AVNOJ Award (1987);
the first prize for the project of a bridge over the Vistula River in Plock, Poland (1996);
Labour Day Order with a Golden Wreath (1979);
Order of National Merit with a Golden Wreath (1987);
Honorary doctorate of the National Technical University of Athens (2000);
Saint George Plaque Award of the City of Kragujevac (2011).
Biography and bibliography
God./SANU. 83 (1977) 185–191; 94 (1988) 329–335; 103 (1997) 345–348.