Dr Oleksandr Menshykov

Dr Oleksandr Menshykov
Dr Oleksandr Menshykov
Dr Oleksandr Menshykov

CSc(PhD) DSc CEng MIMechE FHEA

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Email Address
o.menshykov@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273326
Office Address
190 Fraser Noble Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Elphinstone Road
AB24 3UE

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School/Department
School of Engineering

Biography

Dr Oleksandr Menshykov is the Director of Undergraduate Teaching in the School of Engineering at the University of Aberdeen. He is a Fellow of AdvanceHE, a Chartered Engineer, and a Member of Institution of Mechanical Engineers. After graduating in Applied Mathematics from Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) in 2000, Dr Menshykov did his PhD and DSc in Solid Mechanics at Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics (Kyiv, Ukraine). Prior to joining the University of Aberdeen in 2005, he was a holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship at the University of Stuttgart (Germany).

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Director of Undergraduate Teaching within the School of Engineering; 
  • Member of the University Gender Equality Steering Group;
  • Elected Member of the University Senate;
  • School Continuous Professional Development Coordinator;
  • Chair of School UG Teaching and Learning Committee and UG Student-Staff Liaison Committee;
  • Member of School Executive Committee; PG Teaching and Learning Committee; Equality and Diversity Committee; Special Circumstances Committee; Prizes Committee;
  • Member of School Management Group; Accreditation Working Group; Academic Workload Model Group; Engineering Advisory Board.

     Past duties

  • Role Analyst and Member of University Promotion Appeals Committee (2021-2023); 
  • Role Analyst and Member of University Promotion Subcommittee (2020-2023);
  • Member of the University Quality Assurance Committee (2020–2021);
  • Member of the University Transnational Education Working Group (2017–2018);
  • Member of the Senate Honorary Degrees Committee (2017–2018);
External Memberships
  • Member of EPSRC Peer Review College;
  • Member of UKRI Talent Peer Review College;
  • Carnegie Trust Research Assessor;
  • Member of British Council International Science Partnerships Fund Review Pool;
  • Member of UK-German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Review Panel;

 

  • Special Issues Guest Editor, International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, ISSN 0020-7403;
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Materials, ISSN 2296-8016;
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Scientific Reports - Nature; ISSN 2045-2322;
  • Member of the Editorial Board, PNRPU Aerospace Engineering Bulletin; ISSN 2224-9982;
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Researches in Mathematics and Mechanics; ISSN 2519-206X;
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Bulletin of National Technical University KhPI – Mathematical Modeling in Engineering and Technologies; ISSN 2222-0631;

 

  • Member of the UKBIM National Organising Committee;
  • Member of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM); 
  • Member of the International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM);
  • Honorary Leading Research Fellow at the Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, Kiev, Ukraine.
Research

Research Overview

Solid Mechanics, Materials Science and Applied Mathematics, including Non-Linear Contact Fracture Mechanics, Wave Propagation, Theory of Diffraction, Boundary Elements Methods, Galerkin Methods, Hypersingular and Singular Integrals, Iterative Optimisation Algorithms, Composite Materials, Reinforced Concrete, Design of Layered Pipelines and Umbilicals.

Research Areas

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Research Specialisms

  • Civil Engineering
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematical Modelling
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Funding and Grants

Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professorship, Principal Investigator, 2023-2026;

United Republic of Tanzania President's Office, Co-Investigator, 2023-2026;

Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Co-Investigator, 2020-2022;

Scottish Funding Council - Global Challenges Research Fund, Co-Investigator, 2020.

Carnegie Trust, PhD Scholarship Co-Supervisor, 2019-2022;

Research Council of Norway and Prototech AS (Bergen), Principal Investigator, 2016-2017;

British Council, Principal Investigator, 2016;

Development Trust, PhD Scholarship, Co-Supervisor, 2014-2017;

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP), Research Grant, Co-Investigator, 2010–2013;

British Council / DAAD, Academic Research Collaboration (ARC) Grant, 2010–2011;

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Senior Academics' Research Stay Grant, 2010;

The Royal Society, International Travel for Collaboration, 2010;

EPSRC Standard Research Grant, Researcher-Co-Investigator, 2007–2010;

The Royal Society, Incoming Short Visit Award, 2005;

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Research Fellowship, 2003–2004; 

The Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, Research Grant, Named Researcher, 2003–2004.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

2024-2025 Courses:

"BEng and MEng Individual Projects" (EG45PC / EG45PE);

"Mechanics of Structures - Graduate Apprenticeships" (EG45G1);

"Mechanics of Structures" (EA3518);

"Plastic Analysis" (EG30H5, Harbin);

"Solids and Structures" (EG2513);

"Engineering Design and Computing" (EG20H1, Harbin);

 

Courses taught before:

"Solid Mechanics and Materials Modelling" (EG5095, 5th year, MEng programmes);

"Advanced Topics for MEng Study" (EG5085, 5th year, MEng programmes);

"Mathematical Optimisation" (EG5090, 5th year, MEng programmes);

"Computer Aided Engineering Design" (EG4576); 

"BEng Group Design Projects" (EG4578);

"Dynamics 2" (EM40JM)

"Fluid Dynamics" (EG40DB); 

"Engineering Analysis and Numerical Methods” (EG25H4, Harbin);

"Materials and Structures" (EG2029);

"Engineering Design and Practice 1" (EG2079);

"Electronics & Programmable Systems: Computer Systems & Programming" (EG2060);

"Fundamentals of Engineering Materials" (EG1012);

"Fundamentals of Engineering Materials - Graduate Apprenticeships" (EG10G3);

"Engineering Transitional Summer School" (SEN091, Levels 2 and 3 direct entrants).

Publications

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  • 2D Elastodynamics of an interface crack

    Mykhailova, I., Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • A unified computational approach to instability of periodic laminated materials

    Menshykova, M. V., Guz, I. A., Menshykov, O. V.
    Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 239–259
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Boundary integral equations in dynamic problems of fracture mechanics

    Menshykov, O., Menshykov, V.
    Contributions to Conferences: Other Contributions
  • Elastodynamics of interface cracks: the effect of cracks closure

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I., Menshykova, M.
    British Applied Mathematics Colloquium 2009 incorporating British Theoretical Mechanics Colloquium, pp. 65
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Linear interface crack under plane shear wave

    Menshykova, M. V., Menshykov, O. A., Guz, I. A.
    Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 107–120
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Elastodynamic problem of an interface linear crack under harmonic loading

    Mykhailova, I., Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 10229-10230
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Elastodynamic problem for two penny-shaped cracks: The effect of cracks’ closure

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    International Journal of Fracture, vol. 153, no. 1, pp. 69-76
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • 3D elastodynamics of an interface crack

    Guz, I., Menshykov, O., Kashtalyan, M.
    XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, pp. 273
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • 3D elastodynamics of an interface crack

    Guz, I., Menshykov, O., Kashtalyan, M.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • 3D problem for an interface crack under harmonic loading

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Passages to the limit in the dynamic problem for a crack at the interface between elastic media

    Menshykov, V., Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    International Applied Mechanics, vol. 44, no. 7, pp. 739-746
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Boundary integral equations in elastodynamics of interface cracks

    Menshykov, O. V., Guz, I. A., Menshykov, V. A.
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences, vol. 366, no. 1871, pp. 1835-1839
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Effect of friction of the crack faces for a linear crack under an oblique harmonic loading

    Menshykov, O., Menshykova, M., Guz, I.
    International Journal of Engineering Science, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 438-458
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • On the limit transition in dynamic problem of an interphase crack under decreasing load frequency

    Guz, I., Menshykov, O., Menshykov, V.
    Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 3, pp. 50-54
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The contact problem for an open penny-shaped crack under normally incident tension-compression wave

    Menshykov, O., Menshykov, V., Guz, I.
    Engineering Fracture Mechanics, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 1114-1126
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Boundary Integral Equations for an Interface Linear Crack under Harmonic Loading

    Mykhailova, I., Menshykov, O., Menshykova, M., Guz, I.
    Contributions to Conferences: Oral Presentations
  • Semi-analytical modelling of cracks with interacting faces in isotropic materials under harmonic load

    Menshykov, O., Mykhailova, I., Guz, I.
    Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 4030023-4030024
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Interfacial crack between elastic half-spaces under harmonic loading

    Menshykov, V., Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    International Applied Mechanics, vol. 43, no. 8, pp. 865-873
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Effect of Frequency in the Problem of Interface Crack Under Harmonic Loading

    Menshykov, O., Menshykov, V. A., Guz, I.
    International Journal of Fracture, vol. 146, no. 3, pp. 197-202
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Effect of contact interaction of the crack faces for a crack under harmonic loading

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    International Applied Mechanics, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 809-815
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Semi-analytical modelling of cracks with interacting faces in isotropic materials under harmonic load

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, pp. 43
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Интегралы с особенностями в контактной механике разрушения

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
  • Elastodynamics of interface cracks in laminated composites

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I., Kashtalyan, M.
    International Conference on Deformation and Fracture of Composites, pp. 75
    Contributions to Conferences: Abstracts
  • Accounting for friction under the harmonic loading of a penny-shaped crack

    Menshykov, O., Guz, I.
    Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 1, pp. 77-82
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Contact problem for the flat elliptical crack under normally incident shear wave

    Guz, A. N., Menshykov, O., Zozulya, V. V., Guz, I.
    Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 205-214
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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