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Professor Sinniah Ilanko

School of Engineering, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Formerly:
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Summary:
Sinniah Ilanko is Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and is currently also the Head of School. His research interests include stability and vibration of structures, stress analysis, numerical modelling and engineering education. He teaches or has taught Engineering Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Structural Analysis, Numerical Analysis and Finite Element Method. He has been serving as a Subject Editor for the Journal of Sound and Vibration since January 2009.

Selected Publications (For more see the link, Prof. Sinniah Ilanko):
Book:
Sinniah Ilanko, Luis E. Monterrubio and Yusuke Mochida, The Rayleigh-Ritz Method for Structural Analysis, Wiley, 2014, 252 pages
Journal Articles, etc.:
S. Ilanko and S.M. Dickinson. The vibration and post-buckling of geometrically imperfect, simply supported, rectangular plates under uni-axial loading, part I: Theoretical approach. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 118:313–336, 1987. 

S. Ilanko and S.M. Dickinson. The vibration and post-buckling of geometrically imperfect, simply supported, rectangular plates under uni-axial loading, part II: Experimental investigation. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 118:337–351, 1987.
S. Ilanko, S.M. Dickinson, On Natural Frequencies of Geometrically Imperfect Simply Supported Plates under Uni-axial Compressive Loading. J. Appl. Mechan. 58, 1082-1084, 1991.
S. Ilanko, S.M. Dickinson, Asymptotic modelling of rigid boundaries and connections in the Rayleigh-Ritz method, J Sound Vib, 219 (1999) 370-378.
Ilanko, S., 2002. Vibration and post-buckling of in-plane loaded rectangular plates using a multi-term Galerkin’s method. Journal of Applied Mechanics 69, 589–592.
S. Ilanko, “The use of asymptotic modeling in vibration and stability analysis of structures”, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 263, No. 5, June 2003, pp. 1047-1054, Special Issue: Arthur W. Leissa 70th Birthday Issue
Sinniah Ilanko, “Asymptotic modeling theorems for the static analysis of linear elastic structures”, Proc. R. Soc. A, 2005, 461, pp 3525-3542, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2005.1519, 8 November 2005
S. Ilanko, Introducing the use of positive and negative inertial functions in asymptotic modelling, Proc R Soc A, 461 (2005) 2545-2562
Williams, F.W. and Ilanko S. “The use of reciprocals of positive and negative inertial functions in asymptotic modeling”, Proc. R. Soc. A, 2006, 462, pp 1909-1915, March 2006 (doi:10.1098/rspa.2005.1643)

Harm Askes and Sinniah Ilanko, “The use of negative penalty functions in linear systems of equations”, Proc. R. Soc. A, 2006, 462, pp 2965-2975, doi: 10.1098/rspa.2006.1716, 8 October 2006
Ilanko S (2009) Comments on “The historical bases of the Rayleigh and Ritz methods”. J Sound Vib 319(1–2):731–733.
(For more see the link, Prof. Sinniah Ilanko)

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