Professor Vadim Silberschmidt

Background

Professor Vadim Silberschmidt was appointed to the Chair of Mechanics of Materials at the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK in 2000. Prior to this he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute A for Mechanics at Technische Universität München in Germany. Educated in the USSR, he worked at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics and Institute for Geosciences (both - the USSR (later – Russian) Academy of Sciences). In 1993 – 1994 he worked as a visiting researcher, Fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation at Institute for Structure Mechanics DLR (German Aerospace Association), Braunschweig, Germany. In 2011-2014he was Associate Dean (Research). He is a Charted Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Institute of Physics, where he also chaired Applied Mechanics Group in 2008-2011.

Qualifications

• Chartered Engineer
• Fellow, Institute of Mechanical Engineers
• Fellow, Institute of Physics
• Member, European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH)
• Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics
• Member, European Structural Integrity Society
• Member, German Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)
• Member, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• Member, European Association for the Promotion of Research into the Dynamic Behaviour of Materials and its Application (DYMAT)

Key Awards

• Honorary Professor, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia, 2015
• President of Tokyo University of Science Prize, 2012
• A. v. Humboldt Fellowship, Humboldt Foundation, Bonn, Germany, 1992-94
• Medal of the Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR ‘For the Best Student Research Project’, 1981
• Medal of the Ministry of Higher Education of the Russian Federation ‘For the Best Student Research Project’, 1980

Main research interests

• Damage and fracture evolution in microstructured materials
• Numerical analysis of complex deformational behaviour, damage and fracture of advanced materials under various loading conditions
• Mechanics of composites and nanocomposites
• Mechanics of biological and biomedical materials
• Dynamic deformation, damage and fracture
• Impact fatigue
• Analysis of ultrasonically assisted machining
• Mechanics of processes and manufacturing methods in advanced materials
• Micromechanics and reliability of microelectronic materials
• Mechanics and micromechanics of nonwoven materials
• Modelling of sports materials 

Smart structures: Combining piezoelements with graphene- and nanotubes-based nanocomposites, The Royal Society – RFBR

Grants and contracts

• 2011-2013 Deformation and failure mechanisms of low-density nonwoven fabrics, NCRC
• 2012-2015 Vibro-impact machines based on parametric resonance: Concepts, mathematical modelling, experimental verification and implementation (PARM-2), EU FP7
• 2013-2015 Deformation and damage in advanced composites for aerospace applications, The Royal Society – RFBR
• 2013-2016 Parametric modelling of mechanical properties of spunbond nonwovens, NCRC
• 2014-2018 Trans-Atlantic Micromechanics Evolving Research "Materials containing inhomogeneities of diverse physical properties, shapes and orientations”, EU FP7
• 2014-2017 MAST: Modelling of advanced materials for simulation of transformative manufacturing processes, EPSRC and DST, Indian Government
• 2015-2019 Novel cell migration assay based on microtissue technology and tissue-specific matrices, EU, Horizon 2020
• 2015-2017 ASCEND - Accurate simulation and casting for efficient design, Innovate UK
• 2018-2020 Deformation behaviour of smart structures: Combining piezoelements with graphene- and nanotubes-based nanocomposites, The Royal Society – RFBR

Teaching responsibilities

• WSD100 Structural Integrity
• WSP130 Structural Analysis

Administrative responsibilities

• Head of Mechanics of Advanced Materials Research Group
• Theme Leader, “Materials and Measurement”
• Member, Wolfson School Research Committee
• Head, Applied Mechanics Teaching Group

External collaborators

• University of Oxford
• University of Cambridge
• TU Munich, Germany
• Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics, Russian Academy of Science, Perm
• SIGMA Clermont, France
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Nonwovens Institute, Raleigh, NC, USA
• Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
• Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg
• Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
• University of Liverpool
• IIT Bombay, India
• Griffith University, Australia
• St Petersburg State University, Russia
• POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, Romania
• University of Rhode Island, USA
• Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Aberystwyth University
• University College Dublin, Ireland
• Caterpillar
• Grainger and Worrall Ltd
• IIT Delhi, India
• IIT Guwahati, India
• HUST, Wuhan, China
• University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• TU Braunschweig, Germany
• Empa, Switherland
• The University of Auckland, New Zeeland
• Dstl
• AIST, Japan
• Tokyo Denki University, Japan
• Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• Belarus State University, Minsk
• Sandvik
• Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
• University of Derby
• Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
• Harbin Engineering University, China
• University of Nottingham
• Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
• Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China
• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
• New Mexico Stet University, USA
• AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania
• Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman