Professor Igor Guz
Chair in Solid Mechanics
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+44 (0)1224 272808
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i.guz@abdn.ac.uk
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School of Engineering
Fraser Noble Building (Room 280)
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland, U.K.
Chair in Solid Mechanics
PhD, DSc
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Biography
Professor Igor Guz is Head of the Centre for Micro- and Nanomechanics and Director of Research in the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. He joined the University of Aberdeen in September 2002 as a Lecturer and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2003, to Reader in June 2005, to personal Chair in Engineering in August 2007, and to established Sixth Century Chair in Solid Mechanics in February 2010.
Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen, Professor Guz worked at various research/visiting positions in the Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Kiev, Ukraine (1991-1998), Institute of Materials and Machine Mechanics, Bratislava, Slovakia (1991, 1992), Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering, Austria (1993), University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, (1994, 1995, 1996-1997), University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computer Applications, Germany (1994-1996), Imperial College London, Department of Aeronautics (1998-2002), University of Paderborn, Laboratory for Technical Mechanics, Germany (2002).
In 1994, Professor Guz received the Doctor of Sciences (DSc) degree for the work entitled “Three-dimensional stability theory of composites with various intercomponent conditions”. In 1995, he was awarded the Prize of the Academia Europaea, and in 2009, The State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology. He was also a recipient of the Research Fellowships of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (1994-1996, 2002), the Research Fellowships of the Royal Society (1994, 1996-1997), Lise Meitner Research Fellowship of the Austrian Science Foundation (1997) and the Research Fellowship of the President of Ukraine (1994).
Professor Guz's research work has appeared in more than 300 publications including 4 books and over 120 journal papers (28 journal papers are the solo contributions). He has been reviewing papers for over a dozen international journals. One of his recent papers (International Applied Mechanics, 2003, 39(7), pp.797-801) has been placed in the top 1% within its field according to Essential Science Indicators. Another paper (Composites Part A, 2007, 38(4), pp.1234-1250) was the most downloaded article of the journal in January - March 2007 according to Top25 Hottest Articles and remained on the list for eighteen months.
He made over 60 technical presentations at international conferences and gave over 30 invited talks at leading universities in the UK, USA, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Slovakia and Ukraine. Professor Guz was also organiser and Co-chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 400 "Impact and Damage Tolerance Modelling of Composite Materials and Structures" (27-29 September, 1999, London) and chaired technical sessions at the Third International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (Hamburg, Germany, 1995); the Euromech Colloquium 402 "Micromechanics of Fracture Processes" (Seeheim, Germany, 1999); the First MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (Cambridge, USA, 2001); Deformation and Fracture of Composites Conference (DFC9), Sheffield, UK, 2007; the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Computational Engineering and Experimenting (ACE-X 2008), Barcelona, Spain, 2008; the 7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC2009), Lisbon, Portugal, 2009; and the 18th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM18), Jeju, Korea, 2011.
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Research Interests
Professor Guz is Head of the Centre for Micro- and Nanomechanics.
His main research interests are in mechanics of anisotropic heterogeneous solids; three-dimensional theory of stability; multi-scale 3-D modelling of composite materials and structures; fracture mechanics; dynamics of moving cracks; behaviour of pre-stressed materials and structures; non-linear materials under large deformations; joining technologies for metal matrix composites; impact and damage tolerance of stiffened structures; numerical methods; rock mechanics; nanomaterials and nanotechnologies.
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Collaborations
Over the years, Professor Guz established collaborative links with Texas A&M University, University of California at Santa Barbara, UC Berkeley, Caltech (USA), Berlin Technical University, University of Stuttgart, University of Paderborn (Germany); Vienna University of Technology (Austria); Monash University (Australia); University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, DSTL, QinetiQ (UK); Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia); Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (Ukraine) and other institutions in France, Italy, Germany and the USA.
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Research Grants
In recent years, Professor Guz's research attracted over £1,000,000 of external grants. His current and recent research was supported by the variety of agencies, including BRITE/EURAM programme, NATO, INTAS, Academia Europaea (EU); EPSRC, The Royal Society, The Royal Academy of Engineering, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Carnegie Trust, Technology Strategy Board, Ziebel UK Ltd, Balmoral Sectional Tanks Ltd., ICIAM99 Fund (UK); the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (Germany); the Austrian Science Foundation, the Austrian Academic Exchange Service (Austria); the American Physical Society and the International Science Foundation (USA). The projects include
- Fracture propagation in heterogeneous materials subjected to multiaxial compressive loading;
- Analytical modelling of fracture in compression along interfacial microcracks in ceramics;
- Dynamics of moving cracks in pre-stressed materials and structures;
- Dynamic problems for cracked layered materials with contact interaction of crack faces;
- Effect of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling and non-linearities on dynamic processes in inelastic layered structures;
- Local stresses in CFRP plates with a pin-loaded hole;
- Failure-after-impact analysis of stiffened composite panels under compressive loading;
- Development of innovative joining technologies for metal matrix composites;
- Multi-scale modelling of mechanical behaviour of composite materials with micro- and nanostructure;
- Wave propagation in piecewise-homogeneous elastic pre-stressed materials with imperfections;
- Predicting mechanical properties of novel nano-composite materials withbrush-like reinforcement;
- Investigation of accuracy of a continuum fracture theory applied to layered composites and rocks;
- Bounds for critical loads for layered composites with a special kind of delamination;
- Exact solutions for functionally graded materials (FGMs) and structures
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External Responsibilities
- Head of the Centre for Micro- and Nanomechanics
- Member of the Editorial Board of Archive of Applied Mechanics (2008)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of International Applied Mechanics (2003)
- Co-chairman of the Euromech Colloquium 400 "Impact and Damage Tolerance Modelling of Composite Materials and Structures", London, UK (1999)
- Member of EUROMECH (2009)
- Member of the National Committee of Ukraine on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1996)
- Member of the German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) (1995)
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Admin Responsibilities
- Director of Research, School of Engineering, University of Aberdeen (since 2012)
- Member of the Committee on Research, Income Generation and Commercialisation, University of Aberdeen (since 2012)
- UoA15 Lead for REF2014 submission, University of Aberdeen (since 2012)
- Elected Member of the Senatus Academicus, University of Aberdeen (2008-2012)
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