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Chair, Experimental Mechanics
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Also: Associate Technical Director of J.P. Kenny & Partners Ltd, London, England (in 1983)
Biography:
Alastair Walker, born 1937, received his B.Sc. at Royal College of Science & Technology, Glasgow, and his Ph.D. degree at the University of Glasgow. In addition to being Associate Technical Director of J.P. Kenny, he holds the Chair of Professor of Experimental Mechanics at the University of Surrey.
Selected Publications:
Walker, A.C., Flat rectangular plates subjected to a linearly-varying edge compressive loading, Thin-Walled Structures, (Ed. A.H. Chilver), Chatto and Windus, London, 1967, 208–247.
Walker, A. C., “An analytical study for the rationally symmetric nonlinear buckling of a complete spherical shell under external pressure”. Intern. J. Mech. Sci. 10:695-710, 1968
J. M. T. Thompson and A. C. Walker, “The non-linear perturbation analysis of discrete structural systems”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 4, No. 8, August 1968, pp. 757-768
Thompson, J. M. T., and Walker, A. C., "A general theory for the branching analysis of discrete structural systems," Int. J. Solids Struct. 5, 281-288, 1969; AMR 22 (1969), Rev. 9384.
Walker, A. C., "A nonlinear finite element analysis of shallow circular arches," Int. J. Solids Struct. 5. 97-107, 1969; AMR 22 (1969), Rev. 8507.
Walker, A. C., "The postbuckling behavior of simply supported square plates," Aero Quart, 20, 203-222, 1969; AMR 23 (1970), Rev. 3434
Khan MZ, Walker AC. “Buckling of plates subjected to localized edge loading”. Struct Engi 1972; 50(6):225–32.
----BOOK---- J. G. A. Croll and A. C. Walker, Elements of Structural Stability”, Wiley, 1972
Spencer HH. Walker AC., “Technique for Measuring The Critical Loads of Columns and Plates”, Paper No. 2290 A SESA Spring Meeting, 1974.
Spencer, H.H. and Walker, A.C., “Critique of Southwell plots with proposals for alternative methods”, Experimental Mechanics, 15, 8, 1975, 303–310.
Thompson, J. M. T., Tulk, J. D., and Walker, A. C., "An Experimental Study of Imperfection-Sensitivity in the Interaction Buckling of Stiffened Plates," Buckling of Structures, edited by B. Budiansky, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1976, pp. 149-159.
Walker A.C.; Stridharan, S.: “Buckling of compressed, longitudinally stiffened cylindrical shells”. BOSS 79, Proceedings 2nd International Conference on the Behaviour of Off-shore Structures, Imperial College, London (1979), vol. 2, pp. 341–356
Walker, A. C.; Sridharan, S.: “Analysis of the Behaviour of Axially Compressed Stringer-Stiffened Shells”. Proc. Instn. Civ. Engrs., Part 2, 69 (1980) 447–472.
Sridharan P, Walker AC. Experimental investigation of the buckling behaviour of stiffened cylindrical shells. UK Department of Energy Report OT-R7835, February, 1980.
Walker, A.C.; Andronicou, A.; Sridharan, S. “Local plastic collapse of ring stiffened cylinders”. Proc. Inst. Civil Eng. Vol 71, 2, 341–367 June 1981.
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