Aerospace Structures & Materials

Staff: Dr Chris York

The division has expertise in the design and thermo-mechanical tailoring of laminated composite materials, including the characterisation and behaviour of structural laminates, particularly with respect to buckling and vibration response. Current research activities are focused on the characterization of coupled laminated composites including: algorithm development for identification and characterization of coupled laminate configurations, the vast majority possessing unique forms of coupling behaviour not previously identified in the literature; critical assessments of the benefits, or otherwise, to a wide range of functional and/or structural material applications and; development of experimentally validated laminate benchmark configurations, against which all unique forms of laminate behaviour, arising from isolated and combined coupling effects, will be characterized.