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Professor Aleksander Muc

Institute of Machine Design
Cracow University of Technology, Kraków, Poland

Partial Biography:
Aleksander Muc, Polish mechanical engineering educator. Grantee, Polish Research Committee, Warsaw, 1992, 95, European Community Countries, Brussels, 1993. Member International Society Structural Multidisciplinary Optimization, International Community Composites Engineering (New Orleans), New York Academy of Sciences.

Education:
Master of Science in Physics, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 1980;
Master of Science in Applied Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, 1980;
Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, 1986;
Doctor of Science in Applied Mechanics, Cracow University of Technology, 1993.

Career:
associate professor, since 1994.
Associate professor mechanical engineering Technology University Denmark, Lyngby, 1993.
adjunct instructor, 1989-1992
Researcher University Liverpool, England, 1986-1988.
Assistant Cracow University of Technology, 1980-1985,

Consultant Design Office, Tarnów, Poland, 1985-1987, Czestochowa (Poland) Technology University, 1989, Silesian University, Sosnowiec, Poland, 1990, Lublin (Poland) Technology University, 1991-1992

Selected Publications:
Galletly, G. D., and Muc, A., 1988, “Buckling of Fibre Reinforced Plastic Steel Torispherical Shells Under External Pressure,” Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng., Part C: J. Mech. Eng. Sci., 202, pp. 409–420.

Jacek Skrzypek and Aleksander Muc, “Limit states of geometrically nonlinear elastic-plastic toroidal shells under pressure with bending”, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, Vol. 30, No. 5, 1988, pp. 347-363

Aleksander Muc, “Optimal fibre orientation for simply-supported, angle-ply plates under biaxial compression”, Composite Structures, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1988, pp. 161-172

Muc, A., Transverse shear effects in stability problems of laminated shallow shells. Comp. Struct., 12 (1989).

A. Muc, “Failure modes of laminated axisymmetric shells of revolution subjected to external pressure”, Composite Structures 5, pp 117-132, 1989

Galletly, G. D. and Muc, A., Buckling of externally-pressurised composite torispherical shells, Proc. I. Mech. E. (submitted).

A. Muc, “Buckling and post-buckling behaviour of laminated shallow spherical shells subjected to external pressure”, International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, Vol. 27, No. 3, May 1992, pp.465-476

Aleksander Muc, “On the buckling of composite shells of revolution under external pressure”, Composite Structures, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1992, pp. 107-119

A. Muc, Deformations and stability of composite domed heads and pressure vessels, ZN PK 135, Kraków, 1992 (in Polish). 


A. Muc, “Buckling, failure and optimization of doubly-curved laminated shells - theoretical formulations and experimental studies”, Proc. ICCM/10, Woodhead Publ., Vol.4, 112-120 (1995).

Aleksander Muc, "Layout optimization of doubly‐curved laminated composite shells of revolution", Engineering Computations, Vol. 13 Nos 2/3/4, pp. 263 – 282, 1996

A. Muc, “Transverse shear effects in discrete optimization of laminated compressed cylindrical shells”, Composite Structures, Vol. 38, Nos. 1-4, May-August 1997, pp. 489-497, Special Issue: Ninth International Conference on Composite Structures

A. Muc and P. Zuchara, “Buckling and failure analysis of FRP faced sandwich plates”, Composite Structures, Vol. 48, Nos. 1-3, January-March 2000, pp. 145-150

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