Liviu Marsavina - Professor at the Department Strength of Materials from

POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, ROMANIA

Biographical Sketch

Year and place of birth: 1963, Anina, ROMANIA

Education

MEng in Manufacturing Engineering - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, ROMANIA, 1988

MSc in Experimental Stress Analysis - University Politehnica of Bucharest, ROMANIA, 1994

PhD in Strength of materials, Elasticity and Plasticity - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, POLITEHNICA University of Timisoara, ROMANIA, 1998

Advanced courses in ”Fracture Mechanics in Structural Concrete” - 1997 and ”Multiscale Modeling of Damage and Fracture Processes in Composite Materials” - 2004 at International Center for Mechanical Sciences, CISM Udine, ITALY

NATO Advanced Study Institute “Multiscale Phenomena In Plasticity: from Experiments to Phenomenology”, Ouranoupolis, GREECE, 1999

Course “Optical Methods in Solid Mechanics” Departament of Mechanical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK, 2000

PECO Workshop IE – W03 “Best Practice of Advanced Fracture Assessment”, Petten, NEDERLAND, 2003

Professional Experience

1988 - 1990, Mechanical Engineer at Electrical Instruments Manufactory from Timisoara, ROMANIA

1990 - 1996, Assistant Professor at Department Strength of Materials, University “POLITEHNICA” Timisoara, ROMANIA

1996 - 1999, Lecturer at Department Strength of Materials, University “POLITEHNICA” Timisoara, ROMANIA

1999 - 2006, Senior Lecturer at Department Strength of Materials, University “POLITEHNICA” Timisoara, ROMANIA

2000, Postdoctoral researcher at Department of Mechanical Engineering, Loughborough University, UK

2001 - 2002, Research Associate at Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK

from 2006 Professor at Department Strength of Materials, University “POLITEHNICA” Timisoara, ROMANIA

Research Interests

The application of Fracture Mechanics to Engineering Structures
Fatigue Life Assessment
Finite Element Method for calculating the Fracture Parameters
Experimental Fracture Mechanics

Main Research Projects

Fracture Mechanics Researches for Strength Elements in Different Loading and Temperature Conditions, World Bank Grant, 1997 - 2000
Optimization of the Strength Structures, World Bank Grant, 1998
New Technologies in Fatigue Studies, World Bank Grant, 1999 - 2001
The Evaluation of the Safety of the Strength Structures, Romanian Ministry of Research and Technology Grant, 1999
The Durability of the Rail Systems, Romanian Ministry of Education Grant, 2000 - 2001
Numerical Elasto - plastic analysis of the Bimaterial interface cracks and joints, Romanian Ministry of Education support for a Postdoctoral Research at Loughborough University, UK, 2000
Thermoelastic Methodology for Fatigue Life Assessment, EPSRC Grant, Sheffield University, UK, 2001 - 2002
Thermoelastic Stress Analysis Laboratory, TESAL Grant, Sheffield University, UK, 2002

Nonlinear Analysis of the Tire Safety Ring, Continental Gmbh Germany sponsorship, 1999 - 2000

Numerical Modeling and Experimental Testing of Composite Materials under Dynamic and Fatigue conditions, Marie Curie Research Fellowship, Lublin University of Technology, Poland, 2007 - 2008

Selected Publications

Dumitru I., Babeu T., Babeu S., Marsavina L., "Effect of prestressing on Durability at Repeated Impacts", Proceedings of the Euromech 386, Verlag, 1999, p.261-268
Ekman M.J., Marsavina L., Nurse A.D., "Complex Fracture parameters for an Interface Crack Between Two hardening Materials", Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol.23, 7, 2000, p.619-630
Marsavina L., Tomlinson R.A., "Thermoelastic investigation for Fatigue Life Assessment", 2002 SEM Annual Conference CD ROM, Milwakee, # 94

Marsavina L., Nurse A.D., "Similarities between Small-Scale Yielding interfacial free - edge joint and crack tip field", Facta Universitatis, Series: Mechanics, Automatic Control and Robotics, Vol. 3, No. 13, 2003, p. 623 - 634
Tomlinson R.A., Marsavina L., "Thermoelastic investigations for fatigue life assessment", Experimental Mechanics, Volume 44, Number 5 / October, 2004, p. 487 - 494

Marsavina L., Tomlinson R.A., "The use of Infra – Red detectors for determination of the Fracture mechanics parameters",  Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2004, p. 1323 - 1329

Marsavina L., Tomlinson R.A., "Thermoelastic Stress Analysis for structural integrity assessment", Structural Integrity and Life, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2004, p. 109 - 115

Marsavina L., Constantinescu D.M., "Experimental and numerical crack growth in a special geometry", ICTAM04 Warsaw, POLAND, 2004, CD Rom Proceedings, # SM9_10864

 Marsavina L., Tomlinson R.A., Patterson E.A., Yates J.R., "Investigation of crack closure by using thermoelastic stress analysis", Proceedings of 16th ECF, Alexandroupolis, GREECE, 2006,  # 236_mar

Constantinescu D.M., Bocaneala B., Marsavina L., "Three - dimensional experimental and numerical SIFs and crack growth", Proceedings of 16th ECF, Alexandroupolis, GREECE, 2006,  # 221_con

Marsavina L., Nurse A.D., "The asymptotic structure of small scale yielding interfacial free edge - joint and crack - tip fields", Acta Mechanica, 190, 2007, p. 115 - 131

Main Teaching Subjects

Strength of Materials
Fracture Mechanics

Numerical and Experimental Stress Analysis

International Cooperation

Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK, Postdoctoral Research, 2000, Leonardo da Vinci program 2005
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, Postdoctoral Research, 2001 - 2002

Dipartamento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Universita degli Studi di Cagliari, ITALY, Erasmus/Socrates program, 2000 - 2009

Dipartamento di Meccanica e Tecnologie Industriali, Universita degli Studi di Firenze, ITALY, Erasmus/Socrates program, 2004 - 2009

Magnel Laboratory for Concrete Research, Gent University, BELGIUM, Bilateral research project Romania - Flandra, 2005 - 2007

Departament de Resistència de Materials i Estructures a l'Enginyeria, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, SPAIN, Erasmus/Socrates program, 2000 - 2001

Miguel Altuna Institutua, Bergara, SPAIN, Leonardo da Vinci, 2003 - 2007

Faculty of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, POLAND, Marie Curie Transfer of Knowledge, 2007 - 2008