Prof Jim  Boyle

BSc, PhD, DSc, MIMA, CMath

Professor

Current Funded Projects

• EU Project - FENET: A thematic network for promoting best practice industrial applicaton of finite element technology, 2004-2005, with Dr Wood
• Pre Con Structures Ltd: The analysis and development of a prototype pressure contrast structure, 2002-2005, with Dr Nash
• EPSRC Grant - GR/S81841/01: Development of plastic collapse criteria for pressurised components, 2004-2006, with Dr D Mackenzie and Dr Hamilton

• GR/K63771/01 The Estimation of Ultimate Carrying Capacity for Brittle-Plastic Structures, Principal Investigator
• GR/J99933/01 Approximate Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Components - Use of Generalised Models, Principal Investigator
• GR/J41598/01 Thermomechanics of Composite Laminates - Stage 1
• GR/H73073/01 Approximate Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Components Using Elastic Analysis, Principal Investigator
• GR/F59094/01 Development of a Procedure for Stress Categorisation of Pressurised Components, Principal Investigator

Research Interests

For a list of publications from 2001, please follow this link. Select 'Browse', 'Author or Creator', Boyle, James T. http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/view/depts/11048.html


Main areas of research lie in the application of modern mathematics to nonlinear solid mechanics, stress analysis for creep, computational mechanics and the application to mechanical design problems. Numerous studies have been made in the area of high temperature design and particularly in pressure vessel and pipework design, especially design by analysis. Recent research: has related to new formulations for finite element methods for creep, soil-tool interaction and hypoplasticity, applications of plasticity theory to the estimation of failure mechanisms. Around two hundred and fifty research contributions have been published in international journals and refereed conference proceedings. More recently, following major changes to undergraduate teaching practice in the early years, research on teaching and learning has become a focus - in particular in the areas of active and collaborative learning and students' conceptual understanding of engineering science.

Professional Activities

• ASEE: Member of the American Society for Engineering Education
• HEA:
  • Member of Steering Group of the Higher Education Academy - Engineering Subject Centre
• QAA Scotland: Member of Steering Group for the Research & Teaching Linkages - Graduate Attributes Project
• IMA:
  • Member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
  • Chartered Mathematician
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, American University of Cairo, Egypt 2005
• External Examiner: University of Leicester
• External Reviewer: University of Ireland, Galway 2005
  

• Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Canada
• National Laboratory for Scientific Computation (LNCC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Samara Federal Technical University, Samara, Russia

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Education 2006-
• Associate Editor, Annals of Research in Engineering Education, USA National Academy of Engineering 2006-
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design, IMechE 2001-2004
• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Engineering Education, Higher Education Academy

• 18th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, CANCAM 01, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada, June 2001
• Symposium on Teaching Innovations, Hong Kong, May 2004
• ALE Workshop and Symposium, Copenhagen and Gothenburg, 2002
STEPS 2002, Conference on Supporting Transition by Effective Progression Strategies, York, 2002
• 2nd Annual Irish Teaching and Learning Conference, Galway, Ireland, 2004
• SCHOMS Annual Meeting, Glasgow 2004
• The New Wave of Learning Conference, Aberdeen, 2004