Magnus Langseth
Magnus Langseth
Professor. Director SFI CASA
Department of Structural Engineering Faculty of EngineeringBackground and activities
Magnus Langseth is a Professor at the Department of Structural Engineering at NTNU. At the same time he is Director of SFI CASA – Centre for Research-based Innovation at NTNU for the period 2015-2023.
Professor Langseth is a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Technical Sciences. He was awarded the "Médaille Albert Portevin", Société Francaise de Métallurgie et de Matériaux in 2005. In 2009 he was appointed Honorary Doctor at the Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Impact Engineering and sits on the editorial boards of the Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures and Ships and Offshore Structures.
Research
The research of Professor Langseth is primarily related to impact and crashworthiness of aluminium and high-strength steel structures as well as lightweight ballistic protection. Included here is the development of test facilities for material testing at elevated rates of strain as well as facilities for impact and crashworthiness testing of components and structures.
The focus in his aluminium research is connected to the behaviour and modelling of aluminium extrusions with and without aluminium foam filler subjected to axial and lateral impact as well as the behaviour and modelling of point connectors such as self-piercing rivets and screws. His high-strength steel research is mainly related to material modelling and robustness studies of energy absorbing components. The light-weight ballistic protection activity is related to the behaviour and modelling of aluminium and high-strength steel plates subjected to projectile impact and blast.
The methodology used in his research is a coupling between testing in the laboratory, material modelling and analyses as a basis for recommendations with respect to modelling and design. Special emphasis is placed on what kind of simplifications that can be made in the modelling and still retain a robust and reliable solution of practical problems.
Background
Langseth graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1976 and worked for some years as a consulting engineer. In 1983 he went back to NTH (now NTNU) where he took his doctorate in 1988 and was appointed professor in 1995.
He was the Director of SFI SIMLab from 2007-2014. SIMLab did research on the design of crashworthy and protective structures made from steel, aluminium and polymers. The follow-up SFI CASA does multiscale testing, modelling and analysis of materials and structures for industrial applications.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2022) Testing and modelling of butt-welded connections in thin-walled aluminium structures. Thin-walled structures. vol. 171.
- (2021) Fluid-structure interaction effects during the dynamic response of clamped thin steel plates exposed to blast loading. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences. vol. 195 (106263).
- (2021) Influence of fluid-structure interaction effects on the ductile fracture of blast-loaded steel plates. The European Physical Journal Conferences. vol. 250.
- (2021) On the effect of pilot holes on the mechanical behaviour of flow-drill screw joints. Experimental tests and mesoscale numerical simulations. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. vol. 294.
- (2021) A novel tests set-up for validation of connector models subjected to static and impact loadings. International Journal of Impact Engineering. vol. 158.
- (2021) Finite element analysis of porous polymer coated pipelines subjected to impact. International Journal of Impact Engineering. vol. 152.
- (2020) Sandwich panels with polymeric foam cores exposed to blast loading: An experimental and numerical investigation. Applied Sciences. vol. 10 (24).
- (2020) Testing and simulation of additively manufactured AlSi10Mg components under quasi-static loading. European Journal of Mechanics. A, Solids. vol. 81.
- (2019) Experimental investigation and numerical modelling of the mechanical response of a semi-structural polyurethane adhesive. International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives. vol. 95.
- (2019) A through-thickness damage regularisation scheme for shell elements subjected to severe bending and membrane deformations. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. vol. 123.
- (2019) Finite element modeling of porous polymer pipeline coating using X-ray micro computed tomography. Composites Part B: Engineering. vol. 172.
- (2018) A Shock Tube Used to Study the Dynamic Response of Blast-Loaded Plates. Proceedings. vol. 2 (8).
- (2018) Behaviour of two chamber aluminium profiles under axial crushing: An experimental and numerical study. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. vol. PartF3.
- (2018) Combined three-point bending and axial tension of pressurised and unpressurised X65 offshore steel pipes – Experiments and simulations. Marine Structures. vol. 61.
- (2018) Performance of Some Basic Types of Road Barriers Subjected to the Collision of a Light Vehicle. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering. vol. 40 (6).
- (2018) Connections between steel and aluminium using adhesive bonding combined with self-piercing riveting. The European Physical Journal Conferences. vol. 183.
- (2018) Static and dynamic testing and modelling of aluminium joints with flow-drill screw connections. International Journal of Impact Engineering. vol. 115.
- (2018) Testing and modelling of flow-drill screw connections under quasi-static loadings. Journal of Materials Processing Technology. vol. 255.
- (2018) Quasi-static and dynamic indentation of offshore pipelines with and without multi-layer polymeric coating. Marine Structures. vol. 62.
- (2017) On the dynamic response of blast-loaded steel plates with and without pre-formed holes. International Journal of Impact Engineering. vol. 108.