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Details for Professor Michael Wisnom
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Michael Wisnom |
| Job title | Professor of Aerospace Structures |
| Department | Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Bristol |
| Personal web page | http://www.bris.ac.uk/aerospace/contact/academicstaff/profwisnom/ |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Bristol), M.I.Mech.E. |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | I am Director of the G.E.Aviation-EPSRC University Technology Strategic Partnership on Composites, and of the Rolls-Royce Composites University Technology Centre. I am Editor in Chief and European Editor for Applied Science and Manufacturing of the international journal Composites Part A, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and of the American Society for Composites and a holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. I am also President of the International Committee on Composite Materials. |
| Keywords | failure of composites composites finite element analysis failure mechanisms fatigue failure mechanisms progressive damage modelling failure criteria |
| Areas of expertise | I am the Director of the ACCIS research centre. My interests are mainly concerned with failure of composites and the application of finite element analysis to understand and predict the behaviour of materials and structures under load. - Failure mechanisms in composites Fibre direction and transverse tension, compression, shear, delamination, bending. Test methods. Notched strength. Size effects. Fatigue. Modelling of failure mechanisms. Micromechanics. - Finite element analysis Modelling techniques. Non-linear analysis. Progressive damage modelling. Buckling. Strain energy release rate analysis. Residual stresses and distortions - Predicting behaviour Failure criteria. Use of fracture mechanics. Statistical methods. Fatigue crack propagation. Influence of defects. Simulating manufacturing processes. |