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- Email Address
- o.menshykov@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273326
- Office Address
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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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
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Engineering.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
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
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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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Контактная задача для прямолинейной трещины под воздействием гармонического нагружения
Bulletin of Kharkiv National University, Ser. «Mathematical modelling. Information technology. Automated control systems», no. 775, pp. 197-204Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEffect of Contact Interaction on the Stress Intensity Factors for a Crack under Harmonic Loading
Applied Mechanics and Materials, vol. 5-6, pp. 173-180Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.5-6.173
Контактное взаимодействие берегов круговой трещины при косонаправленном гармоническом нагружении
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 7, pp. 47-51Contributions to Journals: ArticlesГранично-контактные интегральные уравнения динамической теории упругости о трещине на поверхности раздела полупространств
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 6, pp. 51-56Contributions to Journals: ArticlesКонтактное взаимодействие берегов стационарной плоской трещины с начальным раскрытием
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 4, pp. 44-49Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe 3D elastodynamic contact problem for plane cracks
IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Problems in Multibody System Contacts, pp. 77Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsContact problem of elastodynamics for a penny-shaped crack under an oblique loading
Visnyk of Karazin Kharkiv National University. Ser. "Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Mechanics", vol. 749, no. 56, pp. 57-64Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAnalysis of critical strains and loads in layered composites
Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 181-182Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.200610071
Application of boundary integral equations to elastodynamics of an interface crack.
International Journal of Fracture, vol. 140, no. 1-4, pp. 277-284Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-006-0108-1
Contact interaction of crack faces under oblique incidence of a harmonic wave.
International Journal of Fracture, vol. 139, no. 1, pp. 145-152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-006-8372-7
The dependence of the shear stress intensity factors on the friction force under the harmonic loading of a penny-shaped crack
Problemy Mashynostroyeniya (Problems of Mechanical Engineering), vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 49-55Contributions to Journals: ArticlesКоэффициенты интенсивности напряжений для круговой трещины при гармоническом нагружении и учете контакта берегов
Problemy Mashynostroyeniya (Problems of Mechanical Engineering), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 43-47Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContact interaction of faces of the plane crack under harmonic loading
Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 433–434Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pamm.200510193
On use of the Galerkin method to solve the fracture mechanics problem for a linear crack under normal loading
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 41, no. 11, pp. 1324-1329Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10778-006-0039-6
Применение метода Галеркина в задаче о гармоническом нагружении пространства с трещиной
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 8, pp. 44-48Contributions to Journals: ArticlesПространственная контактная задача для двух соосных круговых трещин при нормальном гармоническом нагружении
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 6, pp. 44-49Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInterfacial plane crack under time-harmonic loading
XXXIII Summer School – Conference “Advanced Problems in Mechanics”, pp. 67Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsElastodynamic contact problem for two penny-shaped cracks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ КОНТАКТНОГО ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЯ БЕРЕГОВ ТРЕЩИНЫ МЕТОДОМ ГАЛЕРКИНА
Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mechanika (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), vol. 41, pp. 159-163Contributions to Journals: ArticlesУчет контакта берегов стационарной круговой трещины при гармоническом нагружении
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 8, pp. 43-47Contributions to Journals: ArticlesElastodynamic contact problem for coaxial penny-shaped cracks
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsВлияние контакта берегов эллиптической трещины на распределение коэффициента интенсивности напряжений нормального отрыва
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 7, pp. 43-48Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGeneral Spatial Dynamic Problem for an Elliptic Crack under the Action of a Normal Shear Wave, with Consideration for the Contact Interaction of the Crack Faces
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 156–159Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INAM.0000028593.26816.24
Use of the Constrained Optimization Algorithms in Some Problems of Fracture Mechanics
Optimization and Engineering, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 365-384Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:OPTE.0000005392.93831.b4
Three-Dimensional Dynamic Contact Problem for an Elliptic Crack Interacting with a Normally Incident Harmonic Compression–Expansion Wave
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 1425–1428Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/B:INAM.0000020825.85101.89
Динамічна контактна задача для еліптичної тріщини під впливом нормальної гармонічної хвилі зсуву
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 12, pp. 43-50Contributions to Journals: ArticlesInfluence of the Crack Edges Contact Interaction on Fracture Mechanics Criterions
16th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference
, pp. 34Contributions to Conferences: AbstractsSurface contact of elliptical crack under normally incident tension–compression wave
Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, vol. 40, no. 3, pp. 285-291Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tafmec.2003.09.004
КОНТАКТ БЕРЕГОВ ПЛОСКОЙ ЭЛЛИПТИЧЕСКОЙ ТРЕЩИНЫ ПРИ НОРМАЛЬНОМ ПАДЕНИИ ГАРМОНИЧЕСКОЙ ВОЛНЫ РАСТЯЖЕНИЯ–СЖАТИЯ
Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mechanika (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), vol. 37, pp. 168-172Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContact Interaction of the Faces of a Penny-Shaped Crack Under a Normally Incident Shear Wave
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. 1114–1118Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1021767732319
On One Contact Problem in Fracture Mechanics for a Normally Incident Tension–Compression Wave
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 824–828Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020885325589
Исследование контактного взаимодействия берегов трещины в трехмерном пространстве для случая нормального падения волны растяжения-сжатия
Reports of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, no. 6, pp. 52-55Contributions to Journals: Articles3-D FRACTURE DYNAMICS WITH ALLOWANCE FOR CRACK EDGES CONTACT INTERACTION
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsFracture dynamics with crack edges contact interaction
WSEAS Transactions on Systems, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 171-176Contributions to Journals: ArticlesContact Interaction of the Faces of a Rectangular Crack under Normally Incident Tension–Compression Waves
International Applied Mechanics, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 302-307Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016026026613
Исследование контактного взаимодействия берегов дискообразной трещины в трехмерном пространстве при гармоническом нагружении
Bulletin of Donetsk National University. Series A: Natural Sciences., vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 122-126Contributions to Journals: ArticlesДифракция плоской монохроматической электромагнитной волны на экранированной предканторовой решетке
Electromagnetic Phenomena, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 16-27Contributions to Journals: ArticlesПрименение граничных гиперсингулярных интегральных уравнений в механике разрушения
Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mechanika (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics), vol. 33, pp. 57-63Contributions to Journals: ArticlesМАТЕМАТИЧЕСКАЯ МОДЕЛЬ ПОЛЯ В ДАЛЬНЕЙ ЗОНЕ ПРИ ДИФРАКЦИИ ПЛОСКОЙ МОНОХРОМАТИЧЕСКОЙ ВОЛНЫ НА ЭКРАНИРОВАННОЙ ПРЕДКАНТОРОВОЙ РЕШЕТКЕ
Visnyk of Kherson National Technical University, no. 8, pp. 170-174Contributions to Journals: Articles
