Enter the YSA Competition
Previous Young Stress Analyst Competition Winners
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 Winner
Akash Trivedi, University of Oxford, UK
A novel modelling framework to predict the high rate response of soft materials: Application to (plasticised) poly(vinyl chloride)
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
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