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 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
Wisnom MR, Pimenta S, Shaffer MSP, et al. , 2024, High performance ductile and pseudo-ductile polymer matrix composites: a review, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol:181, ISSN:1359-835X
Kazemi ME, Medeau V, Chen Y, et al. , 2024, Ballistic performance of bio-inspired hybrid interleaved composite structures suitable for aerospace applications, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, Vol:179, ISSN:1359-835X
Kazemi ME, Medeau V, Greenhalgh E, et al. , 2023, Bio-inspired interleaved hybrids: Novel solutions for improving the high-velocity impact response of carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRP), Composites Part B: Engineering, Vol:264, ISSN:1359-8368, Pages:1-11
Kazemi ME, Medeau V, Mencattelli L, et al. , 2023, Novel zone-based hybrid laminate structures for high-velocity impact (HVI) in carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites, Composites Science and Technology, Vol:241, ISSN:0266-3538, Pages:1-10
Quino G, Gargiuli J, Pimenta S, et al. , 2023, Experimental characterisation of the dilation angle of polymers, Polymer Testing, Vol:125, ISSN:0142-9418, Pages:1-7