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Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi

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Professor M.H. Ferri Aliabadi Professor of Aerostructures Zaharoff Chair in Aviation
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Research interest

- Structural Health Monitoring

- Composite materials

- Computational fracture and damage mechanics

- Boundary Element Method

- Structural integrity

Location

E459 ACE Extension

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ London, UK
Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei

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Dr Zahra Sharif Khodaei Reader in structural Integrity
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Research interest

- Structural Health Monitoring

- Damage detection and characterization

- Optimisation

- Reliabiilty and risk analysis

- Numerical analysis

Location

E356 ACE Extension

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Wongon Kim

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Dr Wongon Kim Research Associate
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Research Interest

Structural Health Monitoring and Digital Twin development for transformative air vehicles with IoT sensors

Location

210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei

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Dr Ali Nokhbatolfoghahaei Research Associate
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Research Interest

Structural Health Monitoring, numerical modelling of guided waves, damage detection and characterisation

Location

210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Francisco Rodrigues

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Francisco Rodrigues Research Assistance
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural health monitoring of complex composite structures

Expected end date: 2023

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK

Amin Salehzadeh Nobari

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Amin Salehzadeh Nobari Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Hardware/software development for impact detection in aircraft structures

Location

4th Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dong Xiao

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Dong Xiao PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Uncertainty quantification and reliability analysis of composite structures

Expected end date: 2025

Location

Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Fanzeng Guo

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Fanzeng Guo PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures

Expected end date: 2025

Location

Room 208, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Fatih Dagsever

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Fatih Dagsever Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Industry 4.0 for structural intergirty assessment of composite structures

Expected end date: 2024

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Feifei Ren

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Feifei Ren PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring

Expected end date: 2022

Location

2nd Floor City and guild building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Haolin Li

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Haolin Li PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Optimization of Composite Structures

Expected end date: 2024

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Hongmin Zhu

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Hongmin Zhu PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimates for complex engineering systems.

Expected end date: 2022-2023

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hongmin-Zhu

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Massimiliano Marrazzo

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Massimiliano Marrazzo Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Advanced computational methods for modelling of ultrasonic wave propagation

Expected end date: 2023

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Mengke Zhuang

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Mengke Zhuang Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Reliability based analysis for Anisotropic plates with the Boundary Element Method

Expected end date: 2023

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Samet Ceri

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Samet Ceri Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Computational Methods for structural Health Monitoring of structures under high velocity impact

Expected end date: 2023

Location

1st Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Tafara Makuni

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Dr Tafara Makuni Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Digital Twin development for Aircraft structures: Aerodynamics and Structures interaction

Expected end date: 2027

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Tongrui Liu

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Tongrui Liu PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Multiscale Data-Driven reduced order modeling for predicting the overall mechanical response of composite structures

Expected end date: 2023

Location

1st floor, city and guilds building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Yingwu Li

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Yingwu Li PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Application of Fibre Optic sensors in Structural Health Monitoring

Expected end date: 2022

Location

2nd Floor City and guild building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Yuhang Pan

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Yuhang Pan PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Machine learning methods for damage detection of complex composite structures

Expected end date: 2025

Location

Room 210, 2nd Floor City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK

Dr Hamed Farokhi

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Dr Hamed Farokhi Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

- Nonlinear vibration and dynamic analysis of continuous systems

- Design and modelling of composite structures

- Nonlinear characteristics of micro/nano-electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS)
Kwangkyu (Alex) Yoo

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Kwangkyu (Alex) Yoo PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Reliability and robustness optimisation of composite materials

Expected end date: 2021

Location

Room 208, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou

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Dr. Fangxin (Frank) Zou Assistant Professor BEng (Sydney, Hons I), PhD(Imperial), AMRAeS, MInstP
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PhD thesis

A Boundary Element Method for Modelling Piezoelectric Transducer based Structural Health Monitoring

End date: 2015

Location

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Interdiscipliary division of Aeronautics and Aviation Engineering

Office: QR826
Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales

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Dr Omar Baxarreza Nogales Research Computing Support Officer
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Research Interrest:

- Numerical Analysis

- Optimisation

- Finite Element Modelling of Composite materials

Location

E257 ACE Extension

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Saleh Salmanpour

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Dr Saleh Salmanpour Former PhD student and Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Plates under Operational Conditions using Piezoelectric Transducers

Graduated in 2017
Cheng Xu

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Cheng Xu PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Fibre Optic sensors for Structural Health Monitoring application

Expected end date: 2021

Location

2nd Floor City and guild building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri

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Dr Fatemeh Mazaheri Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

- Design and analysis of composite structures

- Numerical modelling

- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis

Location

141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Mazdak Ghajari

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Dr Mazdak Ghajari Lecturer, Dyson School of Design Engineering (Former Research Associate)
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Research Interrest:

- Computational modelling of impact and damage in composite structures,

- SHM using the electromechanical impedance method.

Location

Dyson Building

South Kensington Campus
Dr Sina Asadi

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Dr Sina Asadi Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

- Design and analysis of composite structures

- Numerical modelling

- Low temperature and high temperature damage analysis

Location

210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Ilias Giannakeas

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Dr Ilias Giannakeas Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,

- Numerical analysis

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Location

141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Ivano Benedetti

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Dr Ivano Benedetti Senior Lecturer, (Former Marie Curie IE fellow)
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Research Interrest:

- Computational mechanics,

- Micromechanics,

- Boundary element Method.

Affiliations: Marie Curie IE Fellow

Location

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale, Aerospaziale e dei Materiali
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, Edificio 8,
90128, Palermo, Italy
Dr Vincenzo Mallardo

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Dr Vincenzo Mallardo Associate Professor (Visiting Lecturer)
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Research Interrest:

- Identification and Optimization in Structural Health Monitoring

- Nonlinear Computational Mechanics

- Isogeometric Boundary Element Method

Location

Department of Architecture

University of Ferrara (Italy)
Aldy Hami Seno

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Aldy Hami Seno Research Assistance
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Research Interest

Structural Health Monitoring - Impact detection and identification

Location

210, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Florian Lambinet

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Florian Lambinet Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Structural health monitoring of composite patch repair

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Yanhong Chen

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Dr Yanhong Chen Research Associate
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PhD thesis

Meshfree micromechanical modelling of the mechanical properties and responses of woven composites

End date: 2016

Location

Impact Engineering Laboratory

Department of Engineering Science

University of Oxford
Dr Dimitrios Bekas

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Dr Dimitrios Bekas Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

- Development and employment of advanced ink-jet printed interdigital sensors and films

- Structural Health Monitoring

- Self-sensing and self-healing polymers and polymeric composites

Location

210, 2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Hailing Fu

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Dr Hailing Fu Lecturer at Loughborough University
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Research Interrest:

-St ructural health monitoring of aerospace composite structures,

- Low-power sensing systems,

- Kinetic energy harvesting.

Location

T.2.23, Wolfson Building
Ifan Dafydd

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Ifan Dafydd Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aerospace Structures: Laser Doppler Vibrometer

Graduated 2019

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Jun Li

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Jun Li Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring for Plate Structures based on a Boundary Spectral Element Method

Expected end date: 2020

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Giorgio Geraci

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Giorgio Geraci Research postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Micro-cracking evolution in polycrystalline aggregates. A grain-boundary formulation

Graduated 2018

Location

City and Guild Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Llewellyn Morse

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Llewellyn Morse Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Reliability based analysis with the Boundary Element Method

Expected end date: 2020

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Nan Yue

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Nan Yue Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural health monitoring in composite materials, optimization and reliability analysis

Expected end date: 2019

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Dr Varindra Kumar

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Dr Varindra Kumar Research Associate
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Research Interrest:

- Electronics design and development of WSN mesh network with low power STM32 MCU integrated with piezo devices (active/passive acoustic sensors)

- Integration of energy harvesting, SHM and condition monitoring with inhouse electronics design

Location

141, 1st Floor, City and Guilds Building,

South Kensington Campus

AW7 2AZ, London, UK
Tianyi Feng

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Tianyi Feng PhD student
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PhD thesis

Title: Structural Health Monitoring of thick composite plates

Expected end date: 2021

Location

Room 210, 2nd floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK
Valentin Buchinger

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Valentin Buchinger Research Postgraduate
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PhD thesis

Utilising SHM methodologies for in-situ manufacturing process monitoring of Composites

Location

2nd Floor, City and Guilds Building

South Kensington Campus

SW7 2AZ, London, UK