ProfessorPaulRobinson

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Head of Department of Aeronautics

Contact

+44 (0)20 7594 5073p.robinson

Location

318City and Guilds BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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.

Video placeholder image — Here I explore the problem of delamination in laminated high performance composites and how the interface between plies can be exploited to produce composites with controllable stiffness and shape memory.

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.Anthony DB, Bacarreza Nogales O, Shaffer M, Bismarck A, Robinson P, Pimenta S close, Pseudo-ductile failure mechanism introduced into finger jointed thermoplastic PES interleaved CFRC, ECCM18 - 18th European Conference on Composite Materials

Anthony DB, Bacarreza Nogales OR, Shaffer MSP, et al.Anthony DB, Bacarreza Nogales OR, Shaffer MSP, Bismarck A, Robinson P, Pimenta S close, Crack arrest in finger jointed thermoplastic interleaved CFRC, 21st International Conference on Composite Materials

Open Access Link

Zhang B, Robinson P, Bismarck A, et al.Zhang B, Robinson P, Bismarck A, Maples HA, Burgstaller C close, 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

Maples HA, Robinson P, Zhang B, et al.Maples HA, Robinson P, Zhang B, Bismarck A, Li W, Burgstaller C close, 2017, Exploring deployable configurations using interleaved composite with shape memory capability, 21stInternational Conference on Composite Materials

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