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Professor J. Michael Davies

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Salford, Salford, UK
Formerly:
University of Manchester, UK

Selected Publications:
Book:
J.M. Davies (Editor), Lightweight Sandwich Construction, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001
Journal Articles, etc.:
Davies, J. M., Brian, E. R. (1982), Manual on stressed skin diaphragm design, London: Granada.
Davies, J.M. (1987). Design Criteria for Structural Sandwich Panels. Journal of Structural Engineering 65A (12), pp. 435-441. 

Davies, J.M. and Hakmi, M.R. (1990). Local Buckling of Profiled Sandwich Plates. Proc. 
IABSE Symposium, Mixed Structures including New Materials, Brussels, September, pp. 
533-538. 

Davies, J.M., Hakmi, M.R. and Hassinen, P. (1991). Face Buckling Stress in Sandwich 
Panels. Proc. Nordic Steel Colloquium, pp. 99-110. 

Davies, J.M. and Hakmi, M.R. (1992). Postbuckling Behaviour of Foam-Filled Thin-Walled Steel Beams. Journal of Construction Steel Research, 20, pp. 75-83. 

Davies, J. and Leach, P. (1992). Some applications of Generalized Beam Theory. In Proceedings of the 11th International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (St. Louis, USA, 20-21/10), Yu, W-W. and LaBoube, R. (Editors), pages 479–501. University of Missouri-Rolla.
Davies, J.M. and Heselius, L. (1993). Design Recommendations for Sandwich Panels. 
Journal of Building Research and Information, 21(3), pp. 157-161. 

Davies, J.M. (1993). Sandwich Panels. Thin-Walled Structures, 16, pp.179-198. 

Davies, J., Jiang, C., and Leach, P. (1994). The analysis of restrained purlins using Generalised Beam Theory. In Proceedings of the 12th International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures (St. Louis, USA, 18-19/10), Yu W-W. and LaBoube R. (eds.), 109-120.
Davies, J. and Leach, P. (1994). First-order Generalized Beam Theory. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 31:187–220.
Davies, J. and Leach, P. (1994). Second-order Generalized Beam Theory. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 31:221–241.
Davies, J. M., Jiang, C. (1996), Design of thin-walled columns for distorsional buckling, in: Rondal, J., Dubina, D., Gioncu, V. (Eds.), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures – CIMS 96, London: Imperial College Press, pp. 165-172.
Dubina, D., Davies, J. M., Jiang, C., Ungureanu, V. (1996), Recent interactive buckling approaches for cold-formed thin-walled members, In: Rondal, J., Dubina, D., Gioncu, V. (Eds.), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures – CIMS 96, London: Imperial College Press, pp. 173-180.
Davies, J., Leach, P., and Taylor, A. (1997). The design of perforated cold-formed steel sections subject to axial load and bending. Thin-Walled Structures, 29(1–4):141–157
Davies, J. and Jiang, C. (1998). Design for Distortional Buckling. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 46:174–175.
Davies, J. M. (1998), Generalized Beam Theory (GBT) for Coupled Instability Problems, in: Rondal, J. (Ed.), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures, Theoretical and Design Aspects, CISM Courses and Lectures N. 379, p. 151-223, Wien – NY: Springer – Verlag
Davies, J. M., Jiang, C., Ungureanu, V. (1998), Buckling mode interaction in cold formed steel columns and beams, in: Proceedings of the 14th International Specialty Conference on Cold Formed Steel Structures, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., October 15-16, pp. 53-67.
Davies, J. M., Jiang, C., Voutay, P. (2000), Intermediately-stiffened compression flanges, in Camotim, D., Dubina, D., Rondal, J. (Eds.), Coupled Instabilities in Metal Structures – CIMS 2000, London: Imperial College Press, pp. 197-204.
Davies, J. M. (2000). Recent research advances in cold-formed steel structures. Journal of Constructional Steel Research, 55(1-3):267–288.

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