We are regularly invited to deliver keynote and plenary lectures, sharing our research with academic, industry and professional audiences worldwide. A selection of these is included below.
2025
Hybrid steel construction solutions combining traditional and additive manufacturing
Professor Leroy Gardner
9 September 2025
This keynote presented recent advances in hybrid steel construction, which combines conventional fabrication with wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) to enhance structural efficiency, automation and sustainability. Examples including optimised connections, nodes and strengthened members demonstrate how small, strategically placed WAAM additions can deliver disproportionate performance gains while reducing material usage and environmental impact.
2024
8 MW wind turbine tower computational shell buckling benchmark (a.k.a. the ‘round robin’) and selected Eurocode shell buckling developments
Dr Adam Jan Sadowski
14 February 2024
This keynote presented and discussed the results of an international ‘round robin’ exercise on a computational shell buckling benchmark, and some of the novel developments in the new EN 1993-1-6 (2025).