Background

• BSc, MSc, PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 1971-1979.
• Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Structural Mechanics and Aerospace Vehicle Design, Cranfield University, 1979-2002.
• Professor of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, 2002 - present

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, FRAeS.
• Chartered Engineer.

Research Interests and Activities

• Thin-Walled metal and composite structural systems.
• Lightweight aerospace and automotive structural components.
• Buckling and post-buckling behaviour of structures.
• Elasto-plastic collapse of metallic construction.
• Impact mechanics of metal and composite structures.
• Damage tolerance in composite structures.
• Composite material failure mechanics.
• Delamination and failure propagation.
• Smart sensing-adaptive structures technology.
• Finite element numerical modelling.
• Finite strip numerical modelling.
• The manufacturing and testing of composite structures.

Research Group

• Lightweight Structures

Teaching Activities

• Part B – Aircraft Loading and Structural Airworthiness.
• Part D – Aerospace Structures.

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Organised Conferences and Workshops

• Organiser and Chairman of the ‘Fourth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures’, Advances in Research, Design and Manufacturing Technology, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, 22-24 June, 2004.
• Organiser and Chairman of the International Workshop on ‘Recent Advances and Future Trends in Thin-Walled Structures Technology’, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, 25 June, 2004.
• Organiser and Chairman of the IMechE Symposium on ‘Smart Structures Technology’, BAWA, Bristol, 22 September, 2005.
• Organiser and Chairman of the IMechE Symposium on ‘Design for Impact and Crashworthiness in Aerospace and Automotive Vehicle Structures’, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, 14 September, 2006.

Conference Administrative Activity

• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the ‘International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures’, Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 September, 2006.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of the ‘Third International Conference on Steel and Composite Structures’, University of Manchester, 22-24 August, 2007.
• Member of the International Scientific/Technical Advisory Board of the ‘Third International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation’, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-12 September, 2007.
• Member of the International Technical Scientific Committee of the Fifth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Brisbane, Australia, 18-20 June, 2008.
• Member of the conference planning panel of the Retiral Conference of Professor James Rhodes on The Behaviour of Thin-Walled Structures, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 26-27 June 2007.
• Session Chairman at the 6th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures, ICAS 07, 24-27 July 2007, Oxford, England.
• Chairman of the Editorial Board Meetings of the International Journal of Thin-Walled Structures held in conjunction with the International Conference Series on Thin-Walled Structures.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the X11-th Symposium on Stability of Structures, Zakopane, Poland, 7-11 September, 2009.
• Member of the International Scientific/Technical Advisory Board of the ‘Fourth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation’, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 September, 2010.
• Member of the International Scientific Committee of The Sixth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Timisoara, Romania, 5-7 September, 2011.

Invited and Keynote Papers

• Keynote presentation at The Fourth Conference of the Iranian Aerospace Society, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 25-27 January, 2003.
• Invited paper at The Third International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa, 10-12 September, 2007.
• Keynote presentation at the X11-th Symposium on Stability of Structures, Zakopane, Poland, 7-11 September, 2009.
• Invited paper at The Fourth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa, 6-8 September, 2010.
• Keynote presentation at The Sixth International Conference on Thin-Walled Structures, Timisoara, Romania, 5-7 September, 2011.

Journal Referee

• Composite Structures.
• Thin-Walled Structures.
• The Aeronautical Journal.
• The International Journal of Mechanical Sciences.
• International Journal of Science and Technology, Scientia Iranica.
• Computers and Structures.

Journal Editing

• Editor in Chief, International Journal of Thin-Walled Structures, Elsevier Science Ltd, ISSN 0263-8231.
• Regional Editor, International Journal of Science and Technology, Scientia Iranica.

Learned Society Engagement

• Member of the Aerospace Materials and Structures Technical Activity Committee, AMSTAC, of the Aerospace Industries Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. 2004-2008.

External Examiner

• BEng programme in aeronautical engineering, Department of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, University of Limerick, 1998-2002.
• Masters programme in aerospace vehicle design, School of Engineering, Cranfield University, 2007-2010.
• BEng and MEng programmes in aerospace engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, 2006-2009.