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
Bacarreza O, Robinson P, Shaffer MSP, 2020, Optimisation of ductile interlocking composite structures
Zhang B, Bacarreza O, Robinson P, et al., 2020, The investigation of modified 'brick and mortar' composite architecture with in-plane wavy segments for pseudo-ductility
Sun J, Pernice MF, Bacarreza O, et al., 2020, Pseudo-ductility in 0-degree fibre dominated CFRP through ply weakening
Robinson P, Zhang B, Bismarck A, et al., 2020, Development of an interleaved composite with a two-stage shape memory capability for deployable structure applications
Francesca Pernice M, Robinson P, 2020, Experimental investigation of low-velocity impact damage in pseudo-ductile composite laminates containing ply weakening