David Hayhurst
Professor
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
University of Manchester
United Kingdom
Biography
After reading Mechanical Engineering at UMIST, Professor Hayhurst was employed as a Structural Designer at the Boeing Airplane Company, Seattle, USA. He was subsequently a CEGB postgraduate scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received the PhD degree in 1970 for his research on Creep Deformation and Rupture of Structures. The latter marked the initiation of the field of computational creep Continuum Damage Mechanics. From 1970 to 76 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, and visiting researcher at Chalmers University Gothenburg. From 1976 to 80 he was a lecturer at the University of Leicester, where he established novel high-temperature experimental research methods; and, in addition, he introduced pioneering, industry-led, cross-disciplinary undergraduate group teaching methods in Engineering Design. In 1980 Professor Hayhurst was a full Professor in Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA where, in addition to high-temperature research, he led design teaching. From 1981 to 85 he was Reader in Engineering at the University of Leicester.
Research Interest
Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
