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Previous Young Stress Analyst Competition Winners

Ian Jones from Airbus with YSA winner Akash Trivedi, Belfast 2019

Ian Jones from Airbus with YSA winner Akash Trivedi, Belfast 2019

The YSA has been generously sponsored for many years by our Corporate Member Airbus UK who provide the prize money and funds for the YSA finalists to attend the Annual Conference free of charge.

2019 Runners Up

Timothy Harrell, University of Southampton, UK
Structural Response of CFRP Materials Subjected to Simulated Lightning Strikes

2018 

Winner
Jared Van Blitterswyk, University of Southampton, UK
Image-based inertial impact tests for composite interlaminar tensile properties

Second Prize Winner
Marissa Linne, University of Michigan, USA
Deformation mechanism interaction in high-purity columnar Al

Runner Up
David Brigido-Gonzalez, University of Bristol, UK
Switchable-stiffness morphing aerostructures using granular jamming

Runner Up
Marta Pena Fernandez, University of Portsmouth, UK
Preservation of bone tissue mechanics with temperature control for in situ SR-micro CT experiments

2017

Elise Chevallier, University of Southampton, UK
Marta Pena Fernandez, University of Portsmouth, UK
Matthew Molteno Stellenbosh University, SA
William LePage Univerity of Michigan, USA

2016

Brian Conroy, University of Limerick. Ireland
Luqmaan Fazal, University of Manchester,UK
Geoffrey Howell, University of Southampton, UK
Joshua Martin, Northeastern University, USA

2015 

Ho Kyeom Kim, University of Bristol, UK
Jens Ammitzbøll Glud Aalborg University, Denmark
Matthew DeVriesUniversity of Florida, USA
Matthew S.L. Jordan University of Oxford, UK

2014 

First Prize - Ryan Hurley, California Institute for Technology, USA
Second Prize - Ramathasan Thevamaran, California Institute for Technology, USA
Third Prize - Lukas Wittevrongel, University of Leuven,Belgium
Runner Up- Behnam Amin-Ahmadi, University of Antwerp,Belgium
Runner Up - Maciej Trusiak, Warsaw University of Technology,Poland
Runner Up - Christopher Sebastian, University of Liverpool,UK

2013 

First Prize- Rodolfo Fleury, University of Oxford (UK)
Second Prize - Luis Felippe Sese, University of Jaen (Spain)
Runner Up - Faye Gillard, University of Southampton (UK)
Runner Up - Haibin Zhu, University of Southampton (UK)

2012

First Prize - Danielle Lowe University of Liverpool (UK)
Second Prize - George Crammond, University of Southampton (UK)
Runner up - Xiaohua Tan, University of Liverpool, UK
Runner up - Jiawei Fu, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Châlons-en-Champagne, (France) and Loughborough University (UK)

2011 

First Prize - Daniel Mulvihill, University of Oxford (UK)
Second Prize - Martin Leong, Siemens Wind Power (Denmark)
Third Prize - Guillaume Le Louëdec, Arts et Métiers Paristech, Chalons en Champagne (France)
Fourth Prize - Arnaud Limousin, University of Southampton (UK)

2010 

First Prize - Nathanael Connesson , LMPF, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, Châlons-en-Champagne, France
Second Prize - Andrew Robinson, University of Southampton, UK
Third Prize - Ryan Judge, University of Liverpool, UK
Fourth Prize - Tomasz Brynk, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

2009

First Prize - Graeme Horne, University of Bristol, UK
2nd Prize - Tran Nam Nguyen, Loughborough University, UK
Runner Up - Djallal Khennouf, University of Southampton, UK
Runner Up - Franck Quero, Manchester University, UK

2008 

First Prize - Shamala Sambasivam, Southampton University, UK
2nd Prize - Geoffrey Wylde, University of Oxford, UK
Runner Up - Oscar Portillo, Cambridge University, UK
Runner Up - Paulo de Matos, University of Oxford, UK

Poster Competition
First Prize - Xu Song, University of Oxford, UK

2007 

First Prize - Andrew Conway, University of Sheffield
Second Prize - Matthias Schallert, Federal Institute for Materials Research & Testing, Berlin, Germany
Runner Up - Tarun Kumar Sharma, London South Bank University, UK
Runner Up - Juan Pablo Casas-Rodriguez, Loughborough University, UK
Poster Competition
First Prize - Richard Fruehmann, University of Southampton, UK
Runner Up - Vivien Schlueter, Federal Institute for Materials Research & Testing, Berlin, Germany

2006

First Prize - Pablo Lopez-Crespo University of Sheffield, UK

2005

First Prize - Jimmy Eaton-Evans Universities of Southampton and Limerick

This is really going to benefit me both in the short and long term. I think that this is a great program that benefits and encourages young mechanicians to recognise their aptitude, work to develop them into skills and use these skills to accomplish goals.

Shamala Sambasivam, YSA Winner, 2008

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