M H Ferri Aliabadi

Professor Aliabadi’s research interests are in the areas of computational structural mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring, fracture mechanics and fatigue, multiscale modelling, and boundary, meshless and finite element methods. .

PhD opportunities exists for self funded students in the following areas:

• Structural Health Motioning of Composite Structures
• Robust and Reliability optimisation of structures
• Multiscale modelling of textile composites
• Multiscale Modelling of Polycrystalline Materials
• Residual Strength Evaluation of Composite Airframe

Principal Investigator on recently external funded projects:

SHERLOC - Structural Health Monitoring, Manufacturing and Repair Technologies for Life Management of Composite Fuselage, Coordinator, JU Cleansky 2, 10M Euros (2015-2023)

SCOPE - Self-sensing Curved composite panel under Operational load: methodology Platform for prediction of damage Event- JTI Cleansky, PI, 400KEuros (2013-12015)

Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU), EU, FP7  - PI, approx 1MEuros (2013-2015)

Multi-level Based Design and Optimisation Techniques for Stiffened Panel, Alenia, Finmeccanica, PI,  400KEuros, (2012-2014)

Smart Methodologies and Multilevel/Multiscale Analysis of Composite Stiffened Panel for Structural Health Monitoring, JTI Clean Sky, EU, PI,  420KEuros (2013-2014)

Three-dimensional multiscale model for material degradation and fracture in polycrystalline, EU, MCF 210KEuros (2011-2013)

Smart Technologies for Stress Free Travel, SEAT, EU Project, 3.2 MEuros (WWW.SEAT.-Porject.Org) Coordinator.

Structural Adhesive Bonding of Thick Components for Advanced Engineering Design (SABCAD), TSB, PI,  £342K

Innovative Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Methods for the Application of New Structural Concepts, DaTon, EU Project - PI , 150KEuros