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Director, Center for Research in Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials
Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering No. 10

Education: Ph.D., California Institute of Technology

Office Location: W.R. Woolrich Laboratories (WRW)
Room 108, Mail Code: C0600

Phone: (512) 471-4167

Email: skk@mail.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Instability in Solids and Structures (Plastic Buckling of Structures, Propagating Instabilities in Shape Memory Metals, Composites, Foams)
• Modeling of Nonlinear Behavior and Failure of Solids (Metals, Composites, Foams)

Dr. Kyriakides' research focuses on instabilities which limit the extent to which solids, structures and materials can be loaded or deformed. He has served on the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty since 1980. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 and has published more than 100 technical articles and reports. He was a 1997 ASME Fellow.

Dr. Kyriakides' administrative assistant is Karon Selman and she can be reached at (512) 471-5963, karon@mail.utexas.edu.

For more detailed biographical information on Professor Kyriakides and his research interests please visit MECH - SS&M and The Research Center for Mechanics of Solids, Structures and Materials.

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