Dr Maria Kashtalyan
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University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UE
Scotland, UK
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Biography
Dr Kashtalyan is a Reader in Engineering. She joined the University of Aberdeen in 2002 as an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and was appointed a Lecturer in Engineering in 2004, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2007 and to Reader in 2011.
Before joining the University of Aberdeen, Dr 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).
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Research Interests
Dr Kashtalyan's main research results are in modelling of continuous fibre-reinforced composite materials used in aircraft, marine, automotive and civil structural applications; Saint-Venant's principle for anisotropic and inhomogeneous materials; functionally graded materials; interfacial imperfections and manufacturing defects in layered materials and structures; intra- and interlaminar damage in polymer and ceramic matrix composites under static and fatigue loading; stiffness degradation and damage growth prediction for advanced composites; anisotropic and inhomogeneous plates of variable thickness. She is a member of the Centre for Micro- and Nanomechanics.
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Current Research
Dr Kashtalyan is currently a Principal Investigator of two International Joint Projects funded by The Royal Society: "Three-dimensional solutions for transversely isotropic inhomogeneous media" (2009-2011) and "Indentation of anisotropic materials with gradients in elastic properties" (2010-2012). She is 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" (2007-2010) and "3-D dynamic problems for cracked layered materials with contact interaction of crack faces" (2007-2010).
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Collaborations
Over the years, Dr 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), ENSMA (France), Science University of Tokyo (Japan), Laboratory of Technical Mechanics, University of Paderborn (Germany), National Technical University of Ukraine and Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (Ukraine).
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Research Grants
Dr Kashtalyan’s current and recent research projects include:
- Effect of thermo-electro-mechanical coupling and non-linearities on dynamic processes in inelastic layered structures
- Dynamic problems for cracked layered materials with contact interaction of crack faces
- Elastic wave propagation in pre-stresses nanomaterials and nanofilms
- Dynamics of moving cracks in pre-stressed materials and structures
- Effect of ply waviness on compressive and flexural response of multidirectional composite laminates
- Investigation of matrix cracking and delamination in composite laminates with a hole under biaxial loading
- Stress concentration in laminated composite structures with interfacial imperfections
- Saint-Venant's principle in 2-D anisotropic elasticity
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Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Kashtalyan's teaching responsibilities include design, development and delivery of a new Level 4 course EG40DF Advanced Engineering Materials devoted to composite materials, which has not been previously taught at Aberdeen; delivering part of Level 5 course EG5090 Solid Mechanics and Materials Modelling; delivering part of Level 1 course EG1527 Applied Mechanics and Structures; contributing to Level 5 course EG5085 Advanced Topics for MEng Students and Level 4 course EG4578 Group Design Project ; supervising BEng, MEng and Erasmus Engineering Projects. She is also a Level 4 Co-ordinator.
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External Responsibilities
- Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College (2003-2009).
- Reviewer for several peer-reviewed journals, including Composites Science and Technology, most highly cited journal in the field of composite materials (impact factor 2.027 in 2006), as well as International Journal of Solids and Structures, European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids, International Applied Mechanics, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, International Journal of Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, International Journal of Computational Methods in Science and Engineering, Journal of Composite Materials, Composite Structures.
- Chair of technical sessions at the 9th International Conference on Mechanical Behaviour of Materials in Geneva (May 2003) and the 9th International Conference on Deformation and Fracture of Composites (DFC-9) in Sheffield (April 2007).
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