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Menachem P. Weiss

Menachem P. Weiss

Education

  • 1960 BScME, 1964 MScME, 1973 DSc, all in the TECHNION IIT

Research Interests

  • Theory of Design
  • Fatigue of Materials and Structures
  • Medical Devices
  • Systems Engineering

Industrial Experience

  • With Rafael, ADA (1963-90)
  • Director of Procurement (1987-90)
  • Head of Mechanics & Structures Dept., Missiles Div. (1976-86)
  • Engineering Design Branch Manager, Aeromechanics Div. (1968-74)

Guest Appointments

  • 1974/6 UC Berkeley
  • 1984 Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
  • 1990/1 UCL London

Membership in Professional Societies

  • Design Society
  • ESIS
  • ASME

Honors and Awards

  • 1975 - Israel Prize for Defence
  • Elata D, Eshkenazy R. and Weiss M.P. "The Mechanical Behavior of a Wire Rope with an Independent Wire Rope Core",   J. of Solids and Structures, 2004,   Vol 41/5-6 pp 1157-1172
  • Hari A., Kasser E., and Weiss M.P., "How lessons learnt from creating requirements for complex systems led to the evolution of a modified version of QFD and a proven new meta-methodology", Systems Engineering, vol. 10, No. 1, 2007 pp. 45-63
  • Weiss M.P, and Hari A., “Expansion of the Pahl & Beitz systematic method for conceptual design of a new product”, Procedia CIRP 36 ( 2015 ) 254 – 260.
  • Weiss M.P. and Lavie E., “Fatigue of metals – what the designer needs”, Int. J. of Fatigue, 84,  (2016) pp. 80-90.
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Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

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