Profile of Stoyan Stoyanoff
- Name
- Stoyan Stoyanoff
- Position
- Senior Consultant | Principal
- Summary
Stoyan Stoyanoff is an accomplished structural engineer who has contributed to the successful design of hundreds of major bridges and high-rise buildings and even spacecraft. Clients with tough design challenges, whether arising from wind, snow and ice accretion effects or pedestrian/vehicle-induced vibration, benefit from Stoyan’s theoretical insights as well as his extensive record of developing creative solutions to real-world structural dynamics problems. Stoyan is a sought-after presenter whose research on aerodynamics and dynamic response has richly informed his three decades of leadership on clients’ projects around the world.
A structural engineer whose theoretical and practical contributions complement his portfolio of high-performance bridges and skyscrapers
EDUCATION
- Doctor of Philosophy (Structural Engineering), Kyoto University, Japan
- Diploma in Engineering (Structural Engineering), Sofia Technical University, Bulgaria
AFFILIATIONS
- Professional Engineer, Ontario and Quebec
- Adjoint Professor (Department of Civil Engineering), Sherbrooke University
- Voting Member, Post-Tensioning Institute Committee on Cable-Stayed Bridges
- Co-chairman of the IABSE working group of wind loads on super long-span bridges
- Member, Federal Highway Administration, Design Criteria for Long-Span Bridges Working Group
- Publications in technical and academic journals
- Regular presenter at technical conferences
SPECIALTIES
- Aerodynamics and aeroelasticity
- Bridge design
- Finite elements
- High-rise tower design
- Model and full scale experimental methods
- Numerical methods and programming
- Pedestrian- and vehicle-induced vibrations
- Snow and ice accretion effects
- Structural dynamics
- Vibration control