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http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84-81785
http://65.54.113.26/Author/10925412/stelios-kyriakides
http://research.ae.utexas.edu/mssm/SK_04.htm
http://research.ae.utexas.edu/mssm/stelios-kyriakides.html
http://www.ae.utexas.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/kyriakides
imechanica.org/node/1080
http://65.54.113.26/Author/10925412/stelios-kyriakides
University of Texas at Austin
Director, Center for Research in Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 10
Dr. Kyriakides received a B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering with first class honors in 1975 from the University of Bristol in the U.K., and graduate degrees in Aeronautics, with specialty in the mechanics of solids, from the California Institute of Technology (M.S. 1976, Ph.D. 1980). He joined the University of Texas at Austin in September 1980, where he currently holds the Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 10.
Dr. Kyriakides' major technical interests are in the mechanics of solids, with an emphasis on instability at both the macro (structural) and micro (material) levels. His work is motivated by practical problems and usually involves combined experimental, analytical and numerical efforts. He has published extensively in major national and international journals (120 journal papers, 40 proceedings papers, 25 technical reports, co-edited 5 books, and co-authored one book) and has lectured at 35 Universities and 16 different countries--often as an invited speaker. Together with his graduate students, he has pioneered the area of propagating instabilities in solids, structures and materials. Such instabilities have been shown to govern the mechanical behavior of large structures such as offshore pipelines, oil well casings, etc. This work was summarized in a monograph in the Advances in Applied Mechanics in 1994. In the 1990s, the problem area has experienced exponential growth after it was demonstrated that propagating necks in polymers, the compressive response and the spreading of crushing in cellular materials, in bone and wood, propagating failure zones in the form of kink bands in composites, the propagation of phase transition fronts in shape memory alloys and the propagation of Lùˆders bands in metals are governed by the same underlying fundamental mechanism. Each of these problems either was or is currently under study in Dr. Kyriakides' laboratory. He also has maintained a long-term interest in plasticity, manufacturing forming problems, crushing, localization and failure, the mechanical behavior of composites, etc. and he is recognized as a major contributor to these areas.
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