About
Steven Tipton is a registered professional engineer in the state of Oklahoma and a fellow in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society for Materials.
He teaches mechanical design, engineering mechanics, materials science, fatigue and fracture mechanics. He has conducted research projects in the areas of durability design and analysis, plasticity, fatigue and fracture mechanics, and experimental and analytical stress-strain analysis. His specialty areas are multiaxial fatigue and plasticity, mechanical design and coiled tubing mechanics. He is the founder and director of The University of Tulsa Coiled Tubing Mechanics Research Consortium.
He established a fatigue research laboratory at TU that includes unique testing fixtures to study the fatigue behavior of components under uniaxial and multiaxial loading. It also includes a coiled tubing fatigue test machine that he designed which has become the industry standard.
In addition to teaching and research, he is an active consultant and expert witness for a wide range of industries. He has 10 patents (and one pending) from industry-related work. His algorithms to predict the mechanical behavior and fatigue life of coiled tubing are currently used by the industry to monitor the structural integrity of tubing all over the world.
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1985
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1979
- B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 1978
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Fatigue design analysis
- Multiaxial fatigue
- Fracture analysis
- Mechanical design
- Stress, strain and plasticity analysis
- Materials science
- Coiled tubing mechanics
