Professor Stephen Reid

Biography

Previous appointments:

• 1969?70 Research Officer, Engineering Sciences Division, Central Electricity Research Laboratories, Leatherhead Surrey.
• 1970?76 Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST).
• 1976?80 Lecturer, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.
• 1980-84 Jackson Professor of Engineering Science, University of Aberdeen.
• 1985-2005 Conoco Professor of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST/University of Manchester
• 1992?95 UMIST Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Development
  UMIST 1994-95 Deputy Principal and Vice-Chancellor
• 2001-04 UMIST Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research
  UMIST, 2003-04. Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Honours:

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), 2011.
• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), 1993.
• Fellowship grades: FIMechE, FIMA, FASME.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Mathematician (CMath).
• President, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, calendar years 2000, 2001.
• Academic: ScD (Cambridge), DSc (honoris causa) University of Aberdeen, 2005 .
• Emeritus Professor University of Manchester, 2005-

Other appointments:

• HEFCE 2005-2008, Member of Sub-Panel 28, Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering for RAE 2008.
• Visiting Chair Professor of Applied Mechanics, Distinguished Visitor Programme, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2002-2004.
• 1987- present , Editor-in-Chief, Int. J. Mechanical Sciences.
• 1983-2005, Associate Editor, Int. J. Impact Engng.

Research Overview

Impact and Explosion Engineering

Sub-areas:

Dynamic Structural Plasticity

• Impact loading of beams, plates and shells/tubes/pipes
• Pipe whip
• Pipe-on-pipe impact
• Computational and experimental methods and techniques for impact

Impact Energy Absorption

• Metal tubes - lateral crushing, crash cushions; buckling; inversion; splitting
• Structural shock waves - dynamic crushing of cellular materials/structures
• Mechanics of cellular materials - wood, polymeric/metallic foams and honeycombs
• Roll-over and falling-object protective structures (ROPS and FOPS) for vehicles

Penetration Mechanics

• Plates and shells
• Metal
• Composite
• Concrete

Composite Materials and Structures

• Damage mechanics for composites
• Vibration techniques for damage detection in composite structures (HKPU)
• Composite springs (HKPU)