Professor Maria Kashtalyan

MSc PhD

Personal Chair

Email Address: m.kashtalyan@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number: +44 (0)1224 272519
Office Address: School of Engineering, Fraser Noble Building, 51cg, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland UK
School/Department: School of Engineering

Biography

Professor Kashtalyan is Director of the . She joined the 51cg in 2002 as an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and was appointed a Lecturer in Engineering in 2004, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007, Reader in 2011, and Personal Chair in 2014.

Before joining the University of Aberdeen, Professor Kashtalyan was an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow (2001-2002) and a Postdoctoral Research Associate (1998-2001) at the Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London. She was also a Visiting Research Scientist at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (1996-1997) and a recipient of the Royal Society/NATO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1998).

She authored more than 190 publications including more that 80 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals, 5 chapters in major reference books on composites, and 48 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. Three of her papers were included into Top 25 most read articles of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids (July – September 2011), International Journal of Solids and Structures (April – June 2007) and European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids (July 2004 – March 2005).

In July 2020, Maria Kashtalyan became the new Editor-in-Chief of the journal, published by Springer Nature, succeeding Professor Peter Beaumont, the founding editor of the journal, who stood at its helm for more than a quarter century.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Academic Line Manager for Solid Mechanics and Materials Research Group, 2021 – present
Director of the Centre of Micro- and Nanomechanics (CEMINACS), 2013 – present
Convener of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Ethics Board, 2019 – 2025
Convener of the Student Progress Committee for Engineering, 2015 – 2021
Convener of the School Prizes Committee, 2015 – 2021
Level 5 Co-ordinator, School of Engineering, 2014 – 2020
Co-lead of the Engineering Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team, 2014 – 2016
Elected Member of the College Council, College of Physical Sciences, 2013 – 2016
Elected Member of the Senatus Academicus, 2012 – 2018
Member of the Physical Sciences and Engineering Ethics Board, 2012 – 2025
Member of the School of Engineering working group on Workload Model, 2012 – present
School Appeals Officer, 2011 – 2016
Member of the School of Engineering working group on Curriculum Reform implementation, 2009-2010
Member of the School of Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Committee, 2007 – 2020
Member of the School of Engineering Student-Staff Liaison Committee, 2007 – 2020
Level 4 Co-ordinator, School of Engineering, 2007 – 2020

External Memberships

Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, 2003 – present

Member, Local Organising Committee, IUTAM Symposium "Frontiers of Solid Mechanics for Energy Transition", 1-4 July 2024, Aberdeen, UK

Member, Local Organising Committee, 23rd International Conference on Composite Materials, 30 July - 4 August 2023, Belfast, UK

Member, International Scientific Committee of the 11th International Conference on Durability Analysis of Composite Systems (DURACOSYS 2014), 15-17 September 2014, Tokyo, Japan

Chair, Technical Session of the 21th European Conference on Fracture, 20-24 June 2016, Catania, Italy

Co-chair, International Workshop on “Modelling of Metal-Ceramic Composites”, 11 September 2013, Aberdeen, UK

Invited participant, Third Worldwide Failure Exercise (WWFE-III) – a set of activities to assess the capability of well-recognised theories and models to capture damage development in composites, 2007 – 2013

Chair, Technical Session of the 9th International Conference on Deformation and Fracture of Composites, 7-11 April 2007, Sheffield, UK

Chair, Technical Session of the 9th International Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, 25-29 May 2003, Geneva, Switzerland

Reviewer for:

Composites Science and Technology
Composite Structures
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing
Composites Part B: Engineering
Journal of Composite Materials
European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids
International Journal of Solids and Structures
Thin-Walled Structures
International Journal of Pressure Vessels and Piping
Ocean Engineering
International Journal of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures
International Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering
ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics
The Aeronautical Journal (reviewer of books on composites)
AIAA Journal
Plastics, Rubber and Composites
Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials
Applied Mathematical Modelling

Research

Research Overview

Professor Kashtalyan's main research results are in

Solid mechanics and its applications
Mathematical modelling of anisotropic heterogeneous materials
Functionally graded materials and their applications
Fibre-reinforced composite materials for aircraft, marine, automotive and civil applications
Saint-Venant's principle for anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials
Thermo-electro-mechanical coupling in layered systems
Wave propagation in pre-stressed materials and structures
Intra- and interlaminar damage and manufacturing defects in layered materials and structures
Stiffness degradation and damage growth prediction for advanced composites
Theory of anisotropic and inhomogeneous plates of variable thickness

Collaborations

Over the years, Professor Kashtalyan has established collaborative links with University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Surrey, University of Sheffield, University of Bristol, National Physical Laboratory, DSTL (UK); Institute for Mechanics, Technical University of Berlin (Germany); Monash University, Melbourne (Australia); Laboratory for Technical Mechanics, University of Paderborn (Germany); University of Stuttgart (Germany); Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering, Vienna University of Technology (Austria); ENSMA, Laboratory for Mechanics and Physics of Materials (France); Ecole Centrale de Lyon, University Lyon (France); Luleå Technical University (Sweden); Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (Ukraine); University of Salerno (Italy); Universita di Napoli 'Federico II' (Italy); Texas A&M University (USA), University of New Hampshire (USA).

Funding and Grants

Professor Kashtalyan is currently a Principal Investigator of the Royal Society International Joint Project with the University of Bremen (Germany) on “Consistent plate theory for graded plates” (2017-2020). Recently, she was a Principal Investigator of the Royal Society International Joint Project with the University of Seville (Spain) on “Modelling multiple transverse cracking in composite laminates” (2015-2018), with Karlsruhe Technical University (Germany) on “Multi-scale modelling of metal-ceramic composites with lamellar microstructure” (2013-2016). She was also a Co-Investigator of the project “Novel structural and sealing components suitable for use in containing a range of aggressive chemicals” (2013-2014) funded by EPSRC, Technology Strategy Board and Balmoral Sectional Tanks Ltd. Previously, she was a Principal Investigator of two International Joint Projects funded by the Royal Society ("Indentation of anisotropic materials with gradients in elastic properties", 2010-2012, and "Three-dimensional solutions for transversely isotropic inhomogeneous media", 2009-2011), as well as three International Exchange Programme grants of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (2019, 2017, 2012). She was also a Co-Investigator of two research grants funded by EPSRC: "Effect of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling and non-linearities on dynamics processes in inelastic layered structures" (2007-2011) and "3-D dynamic problems for cracked layered materials with contact interaction of crack faces" (2007-2011).

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Professor Kashtalyan's teaching duties include:

Level 5 course EM501Q Advanced Composite Materials (from 2015-16) – course design and development as a part of Curriculum Reform (CREF) implementation; course co-ordination; 100% delivery of lectures and tutorials; around 50 students each year
Level 1 course EG1510 Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics (from 2014-15) – 50% delivery of lectures, tutorials, labs; more than 200 students each year
Level 4 course EM4529 Nonlinear Mechanics (2017-18 to 2021-22) – 50% delivery of lectures and tutorials; around 80 students each year
Level 1 course EG1009/EG1012 Fundamentals of Engineering Materials (2010-11 to 2015-16) – course design and development as a part of Curriculum Reform (CREF) implementation; course co-ordination; 50% delivery of lectures, tutorials, labs; more than 200 students each year
Supervising undergraduate BEng/MEng and postgraduate MSc project students

Publications

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Effect of Laminate Fibre Orientation on Thermoplastic Composite Pipe Buckling and Material Failure under Thermomechanical Loading

Buckling and material failure in thermoplastic composite pipes under thermo-mechanical loading

Numerical modelling of the effects of laminate ply orientation and pipe geometry on thermoplastic composite pipe failure under thermomechanical loading

Thermomechanical Loading Induced Buckling and Failure Analysis of Thermoplastic Composite Pipes

Applied Composite Materials Special Memorial Issue on Structural Integrity of Engineering Composite Materials

Buckling and Stress Analysis for Composite Pipes under Thermomechanical Loading

Thermomechanical Analysis of Sandwich Pipes with Graded Core

Response of carbon/PEEK automotive driveshafts with/without an inner isotropic layer at high temperature considering temperature-dependent material properties

Failure analysis of a composite riser pipe under operational and spooling loads

Coupled thermomechanical analysis of thermoplastic composite pipe by FEM simulations

Numerical modelling of spoolable thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) under combined bending and thermal load

Development of the consistent second-order plate theory for transversely isotropic plates and its analytical assessment from the three-dimensional perspective

Analysis of filament-wound sandwich pipe under combined internal pressure and thermal load considering restrained and closed ends

Corrigendum to “Effects of thermal gradient on failure of a thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) riser leg” [Int. J. Pres. Ves. Pip. 172 (2019) 90–99]

On the friction drag reduction mechanism of streamwise wall fluctuations

Polymer Composites in the Aerospace Industry: second edition Edited by P. E. Irving and C. Soutis Woodhead Publishing, Elsevier, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK. 2020. xiv; 673 pp. Illustrated. £255. ISBN 978-0-08-102679-3.

On the interaction of delamination buckling and damage growth in cross-ply laminates

Assessment of the consistent second-order plate theory for isotropic plates from the perspective of the three-dimensional theory of elasticity

Structural integrity of deepwater composite pipes under combined thermal and mechanical loading

Three-dimensional elasticity analysis of sandwich panels with functionally graded transversely isotropic core

Failure analysis of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) under combined pressure, tension and thermal gradient for an offshore riser application

Active and passive in-plane wall fluctuations in turbulent channel flows

Effects of thermal gradient on failure of a thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) riser leg

Engineering critical assessment for a sandwich pipe field joint

Graded Insulation to Improve High Pressure Resistance in Deepwater Flowlines: a Closed Form Analytical Elastic Solution

Threaded Connectors for Sandwich Pipes – Part 1: Parametric & Comparative Studies

Threaded Connectors for Sandwich Pipes – Part 2: Optimisation of Stress Relief Groove

Coupled stress and energy criterion for multiple matrix cracking in cross-ply composite laminates

Hashin’s bounds for elastic properties of particle-reinforced composites with graded interphase

Modelling Cracked Cross-Ply Laminates with Delamination Buckling

Finite element analysis of a sandwich pipe joint

Effect of graded interphase on the coefficient of thermal expansion for composites with spherical inclusions

Modeling of damage in an mmc with lamellar microstructure

Influence of the Crack Widening on the Transverse Cracking in Lamellar Metal-Ceramic Composites

Elasticity analysis of sandwich pipes with functionally graded interlayers

Modelling of stiffness degradation due to cracking in laminates subjected to multi-axial loading

Analysis of multiple cracking in metal/ceramic composites with lamellar microstructure

Evolution of crack density in cross-ply laminates. Application of a coupled stress and energy criterion

Transverse cracking in metal/ceramic composites with lamellar microstructure

A piecewise exponential model for three-dimensional analysis of sandwich panels with arbitrarily graded core

Stress analysis of cracked MMCs with Lamellar microstructure

Three-dimensional elastic deformation of functionally graded isotropic plates under point loading

Flexural behaviour of sandwich panels with graded core: A piecewise exponential model

Analysis of bolted flanged panel joint for GRP sectional tanks

Influence of microstructural transformation on quasistatic and dynamic thermomechanical response of thermally loaded disk

Numerical modelling of functionally graded coatings

Predicting residual stiffness of cracked composite laminates subjected to multi-axial inplane loading

Finite element modelling of sandwich panels with graded core under varioius boundary conditions

Finite element modelling of sandwich panels with graded core under various boundary conditions

Numerical modeling of functionally graded materials using a variational formulation

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