AN APPRECIATION OF PROFESSOR NORMAN JONES' CONTRIBUTIONS TO IMPACT ENGINEERING

摘要

This article summarises Professor Norman Jones' academic career and his scholarly contributions to impact engineering. In the past 50 years, Professor Jones has performed profound research on a wide range of impact engineering problems, supervised postgraduate students, researchers and academic visitors from all over the world, initiated international research networks and conferences, and has played important roles in consulting government bodies and in generally serving the academic community. Due to his research excellence and achievements, Professor Jones has received numerous prestigious awards and titles including Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Foreign Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering.