Stelios Kyriakides

Stelios Kyriakides is a Professor and Director of the Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering. He specializes in mechanics of solids, focusing on structural and material instabilities, particularly in offshore pipelines and shape memory alloys. His work integrates experimental, analytical, and numerical methods, with over 200 publications and significant industry impact.

• Education: B.Sc. (Aeronautical Engineering, University of Bristol), M.S./Ph.D. (Aeronautics, Caltech)

Research interests include instability in solids/structures, nonlinear material behavior, and failure mechanisms. He pioneered studies on propagating instabilities in pipelines and materials like NiTi alloys, contributing to offshore pipeline design codes and industry standards.

Recent articles explore phase transformation in NiTi, liner buckling in pipelines, and material response under cyclic loading. His work highlights localization phenomena, thermal effects, and failure mechanisms in complex systems.

• Awards: National Academy of Engineering (2007), ASME Fellow (1997), Koiter Medal (2009), Billy and Claude R. Hocott Award (2021)

Advises graduate students pursuing academia or roles in aerospace, energy, and materials industries. Current advisees include Martin Scales, Kelin Chen, and others. His research group collaborates on multiscale modeling and anisotropic material behavior.

Led the development of the Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures, and Materials, advancing interdisciplinary research in structural mechanics and material science.