Stelios Kyriakides

Biography

Dr. Kyriakides received a B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering with first class honors from the University of Bristol in the U.K., and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics, with specialty in the mechanics of solids, from the California Institute of Technology. He is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering. Kyriakides' major technical interests are in the mechanics of solids, structures and materials, with an emphasis on instability at both the macro (structural) and micro (material) levels. His work is motivated by practical problems and usually involves combined experimental, analytical and numerical efforts. He has more than 200 publications, has co-authored one book, co-edited 5 books, and has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Among other research contributions, he has pioneered propagating instabilities in structures and materials. The subject first appeared in the problem of buckle propagation in offshore pipelines in the 1980s, but the underlying mechanism of localization of deformation, local arrest, and propagation was subsequently demonstrated to govern other structures and a variety of material systems, including: propagating necks in polymers; the onset and spreading of crushing in cellular materials including trabecular bone; the propagation of kink bands in fiber composites and woods; the propagation of phase transition fronts in shape memory alloys; the propagation of Lüders bands in metals, and others. H

Research Interest

He has also maintained a long-term interest in plastic instabilities and crushing of structures, plasticity, forming problems in manufacturing, localization and ductile failure of metals, the mechanical behavior of composites, etc. He is recognized as a major contributor to these areas