Summary
Professor in Mechanics of Composites MSc, PhD
Administrative Duties
Head, Department of Aeronautics
I joined Imperial College in 1988 as a lecturer having previously worked for Buro Happold Consulting Engineers and British Aerospace Space and Communications Division as a structural engineer.
My research interests lie in polymer matrix composites. My earlier work had a particular focus on the susceptibility of these materials to delamination and included the development and investigation of tests for characterising delamination resistance and methods for predicting delamination development in composite components due to static, impact and fatigue loading.
More recently my research has included development and investigation of ductile composite architectures (I am a co-I on the EPSRC Programme Grant High Performance Ductile Composite Technologies), morphing structures, and controllable stiffness and shape memory composites. I am also a co-I on the Clean Sky 2 project ‘Structural Health Monitoring, Manufacturing and Repair Technologies for Life Management of Composite Fuselage’ (SHERLOC).
Publications
Conference
Anthony DB, Bacarreza Nogales O, Shaffer M, et al. , Pseudo-ductile failure mechanism introduced into finger jointed thermoplastic PES interleaved CFRC, ECCM18 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials
Maples HA, Robinson P, Zhang B, et al. , 2017, Exploring deployable configurations using interleaved composite with shape memory capability, 21stInternational Conference on Composite Materials
Zhang B, Robinson P, Bismarck A, et al. , 2017, An investigation of the viscoelastic behaviour of interleaved composite with shape memory capability, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials (!CCM-21)
Sun J, Bacarreza O, Robinson P, 2017, Pseudo ductility in quasi-isotropic CFRP through ply weakening, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials
Anthony DB, Bacarreza Nogales OR, Shaffer MSP, et al. , 2017, Crack arrest in finger jointed thermoplastic interleaved CFRC, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials, Chinese Society for Composite Materials