Christopher Calladine
British engineer
Christopher Reuben Calladine FRS FREng (19 January 1935 – 3 August 2025) was a British engineer, emeritus professor at University of Cambridge, and fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Calladine died on 3 August 2025, at the age of 90.
Works
Plasticity for engineers: theory and applications. Horwood Publishing. 2000. ISBN 978-1-898563-70-9.
Theory of Shell Structures. Cambridge University Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-521-36945-9.
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