Levon Minnetyan
Professor
226 Rowley Laboratories
Clarkson University
Box 5710
Potsdam, NY 13699-5710
Phone: 315-268-7741
FAX: 315-268-7985
E-mail: levon@clarkson.edu
Education
BSCE, Robert College (1969)
MS, Duke University (1971)
PhD, Duke University (1974)
Teaching Interests
Dr. Minnetyan is the faculty advisor for the Steel Bridge and the ASCE Student Chapter.
Courses taught include CE320-Structural Analysis and CE442-Steel Design.
Research Interests
Dr. Minnetyan's primary research is directed toward quantification of damage and degradation in composite structures, assessment of structural durability and damage tolerance.
Recent Publications
D. Huang and L. Minnetyan, "Damage Progression in Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Plastic I-Beams," ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 1998, pp. 38-45
L. Minnetyan, C.C. Chamis, and P.K. Gotsis, "Damage Progression in Bolted Composites" Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials, Vol. 11, May 1998, pp. 231-248
P.K. Gotsis, C.C. Chamis, and L. Minnetyan, "Progressive Fracture of Fiber Composite Thin Shell Structures under Internal Pressure and Axial Loads," International Journal of Damage Mechanics, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1998, pp. 332-350
L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Progressive Fracture of Adhesively Bonded Composite Structures," Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, Vol. 31, 1999, pp. 75-84.
L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Damage Tolerance of Large Shell Structures," ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Vol. 121, No. 2, May 1999, pp. 188-195.
B.R. Mauget, L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Large Deformation Nonlinear Response of Soft Composite Structures via Laminate Analogy," SAMPE Journal of Advanced Materials, Volume 34, No. 2, April 2001, pp. 21-26.
C.C. Chamis, and L. Minnetyan, "Defect/damage tolerance of pressurized fiber composite shells," Composite Structures an Elsevier Journal, 51 (2001) pp. 159-168.
D. Huang and L. Minnetyan, "Postbuckling Response and Progressive Fracture of Stiffened and Stitched Composite Shear Panels," Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 20, No. 18, 2001, pp. 1617-1632.
B.R. Mauget, L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Computational Tracking of Composite Manufacturing with Fiber Preforms," ASTM Journal of Composite Technology and Research, Vol. 23, No. 4, October 2001, pp. 254-258
P.K. Gotsis, C.C. Chamis, and L. Minnetyan, "Application of Progressive Fracture Analysis for Predicting Failure Envelopes and Stress-Strain Behaviors of Composite Laminates: a Comparison with Experimental Results," Composites Science and Technology, 2002, Vol. 62, pp. 1545-1559
H. Zhang, L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Computational Simulation of Composite Fracture Toughness Parameters," ASTM STP 1436, Composite Materials Testing and Design (Fourteenth Volume, August 2003, pp. 224-237.
W. Zhao, L. Minnetyan, and C.C. Chamis, "Fracture Propagation in Composites with Biaxial Fiber Reinforcement,” Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, pp. 221-238.








