Larry Lessard
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
McGill University
Canada
Biography
Ph.D. Stanford University M.Sc. Stanford University B.Eng. McGill University
Research Interest
The understanding of composite materials and their structures requires an in-depth knowledge of basic material behaviour. Knowledge of fibre and resin behaviour is essential for understanding the intricacies of composite manufacturing processes. This must be accompanied by stress, strain and failure analysis in both the static and fatigue regimes. Finally, designs must be manufactured and tested. Here is where design optimization helps to achieve the final goal: a successfully designed composite structure. The McGill Structures and Composite Materials Laboratory thus explores the design of composite materials and their structures "From Start to Finish".
Publications
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J19. Shokrieh, Mahmood and Lessard, Larry, "Progressive Fatigue Damage Modeling of Composite Materials, Part I: Modeling, " J. of Composite Materials, Vol. 34, No. 13, 2000, pp. 1056-1080.
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J33. Ghiasi, H., Pasini, D., and Lessard, Larry, "Pareto Frontier for Simultaneous Structural and Manufacturing Optimization of a Composite Part," Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2010, 40(1), pp. 497-511.
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J36. Ghiasi, H., Pasini, D., and Lessard, Larry, "A Non-Dominated Sorting Hybrid Algorithm for Multi-objective Optimization of Engineering Problems," Engineering Optimization, 2010, iFirst, pp 1-21, doi:10.1016/j.compstruct.2010.06.001.
