ProfessorPaulRobinson

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics

Professor of Mechanics of Composites

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 was a co-I on the EPSRC Programme Grant High Performance Ductile Composite Technologies), investigation of strategies to improve the compression response of advanced composites (I am a co-I on the EPSRC Programme Grant Next Generation Fibre-Reinforced Composites), morphing structures, and controllable stiffness and shape memory composites (I am a partner in the EU-funded training programme ‘HyFiSyn’).

Publications

Journals

Wan A Hamid WLH, Iannucci L, Robinson P, 2023, Flexural behaviour of 3D-printed carbon fibre composites: Experimental and virtual tests - application to composite adaptive structure, Composites Part C: Open Access, Vol:10

Jones MP, Murali GG, Laurin F, et al.Jones MP, Murali GG, Laurin F, Robinson P, Bismarck A close, 2022, Functional flexibility: The potential of morphing composites, Composites Science and Technology, Vol:230, ISSN:0266-3538, Pages:1-12

Conference

Anthony D, Woodgate C, Shaw C, et al.Anthony D, Woodgate C, Shaw C, Patni M, Bikos D, Gogoi R, Garulli T, Pickard L, Quino Quispe G, Gargiuli J, Pimenta S, Allegri G, Pinho S, Hamerton I, Greenhalgh E, Eichhorn S, Robinson P, Wisnom M, Trask R, Shaffer M close, 2023, Hierarchical solutions to compressive problems in fibre-reinforced composites, ECCM20 - The 20th European Conference on Composite Materials, Composite Construction Laboratory (CCLab), Pages:1512-1517

Quino Quispe G, Robinson P, Trask RS, Design of a bending experiment for mechanical characterisation of pultruded rods under compression, 20th European Conference on Composite Materials

Murali GG, Robinson P, Bismarck A, et al.Murali GG, Robinson P, Bismarck A, Burgstaller C close, 2022, DEPLOYABLE COMPOSITE MESHES - MODELLING, MANUFACTURE AND CHARACTERISATION, Pages:1183-1190

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