Anthony Waas is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Director, Composite Structures Laboratory at the University of Michigan. His current research interests are damage tolerance analysis of composite materials and components made of composite materials, nanocomposites, structural engineering, biomaterials and bioengineering, and structures and mechanical components operating under "hot" conditions. A recipient of many awards for teaching and research excellence, Professor Waas is a Fellow of ASME and the AAM, and an Associate Fellow of AIAA and has served as an Associate Editor of the AIAA Journal (1995-02) and on the Editorial Advisory Board of the AIAA Journal of Aircraft (1995-00). He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal Composites: B and serves as an Associate Editor of the RAeS Aeronautical Journal, IJ of Engineering Science and Journal of Applied Mechanics, and is on the Editorial Board of Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, and the Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials. He was the Technical Chair of the 49th AIAA SDM conference.
Joe G Eisley is Professor Emeritus - Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is author of Mechanics of Elastic Structures.