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Staff Profile

Prof Donald  Mackenzie

BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE

Professor

Email d.mackenzie@strath.ac.uk
Ext 2844
Tel +44 (0) 141 548 2046
Room M652

Current Funded Projects

  • EPSRC Grant - GR/S81841/01 Development of plastic collapse criteria for pressurised components, 2004-2006, with Prof JT Boyle and Dr R Hamilton
  • British Energy: Limit analysis of cracked welded components with material property mismatch, 2006, collaboration with Dr DH Nash

Research Interests

For a list of publications from 2001, please follow this link. Select 'Browse', 'Author or Creator', Mackenzie, Donald http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/view/depts/11048.html


Principal areas of research are structural integrity and computational mechanics, with particular interest in ductile collapse of structures under static and cyclic loading.

Recent interests have included numerical simulation of welding processes and coupled-field or multi-physics analysis.

Publications include papers on:

  • pressure vessel design by analysis
  • limit and shakedown analysis
  • autofrettage
  • fracture mechanics
  • finite element formulation (displacement and mixed elements)
  • Current research projects include:
  • investigation of criteria of plastic collapse in pressure vessel design
  • pipeline variations
  • multi-physics modelling of welding processes

  • Professional Activities
    • IMechE: Member of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1993-
    • ASME: Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
    • Chartered Engineer
    • NAFEMS: Member, Working Group on Multiphysics Analysis 2007-
    • Deputy Director, University of Strathclyde/British Energy joint Applied Engineering Centre, BE AEC, 2005-2006

    Editorships & Editorial Board Memberships
    • Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, 2006-

    Consultancies
    • Henry Technologies Ltd 2003
    • BP Exploration Operating Co Ltd, with Dr Hamilton 2003
    • Rolls Royce 2007