Principal's Resume

Dr Gregory SZULADZINSKI

Technical Profile

He received his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in 1965 and Doctoral Degree in Structural Mechanics from University of Southern California in 1973. 

From 1966 to 1980, he worked in the United States in the fields of aerospace, nuclear and shipbuilding industries. Among more involved projects, he has done extensive work in computer simulation of seismic events and other dynamic conditions, as related to safety of nuclear plant buildings as well as military hardware.

From 1981 until present, he has been working in Australia in the fields of aerospace, railway, power, offshore, automotive and process industries, as well as in rock mechanics, underground blasting and military applications.  He has a number of publications to his credit in stress analysis, vibrations and plasticity.  His book entitled “Dynamics of Structures and Machinery.   Problems and Solutions” was published worldwide by John Wiley Interscience in 1982. 

He has been involved with Finite Element Method of simulation of structural problems since 1966.  In 1978-79, he worked as Principal Analyst for Control Data in Los Angeles in support of FEA codes. He was behind bringing ANSYS code into Australia.

Especially since the early 90’ties he has been doing computer simulations of such violent phenomena as rock breaking with the use of explosives, fragmentation of metallic objects, shock damage to buildings, structural collapse, fluid-structure interaction, blast protection and aircraft impact protection. He has done a number of state-of-the-art studies showing explicit fragmentation of structures and other objects.

From topical viewpoint, his initial work was in stress analysis, then vibrations and from 1972 a number of projects followed in dynamic events and accident simulations. He serves on Advisory Committee for the Conferences on Design and Analysis of Protective Structures as well as Asia-Pacific Conference on Shock and Impact Loads on Structures. His second book is Structural and Mechanical Shock and Impact Formulas (CRC Press, Oct.2009.)

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, member of its Structural and Mechanical College, a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.