Brunel Symposium on Structural Integrity, Tuesday 28 May 2024

We are pleased to invite you to participate in our one-day symposium on ‘Structural Integrity’ to be held at Brunel University London. The Symposium, organized by Brunel’s Institute of Materials & Manufacturing, covers a broad spectrum of topics related to structural durability, fracture mechanics, material processing and simulation. 

This event is free, catering to wider academic and industry partners, part of the Brunel Research Festival.  Please register below. More information will be provided. 

Programme

10.00: Welcome: Professor Hamid Bahai, Director of Brunel Institute of Materials & Manufacturing.

10.10: Professor Hua Zhao, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research: Brunel’s Research

10.20: Dr Giulio Alfano: Experimental testing and numerical modelling of adhesive joints

10.40: Professor Rade Vignjevic:  Main Research Activities at the Centre for Assessment of Structures and Materials under Extreme Conditions (CASMEC)

11.00: Dr James Campbell: High strain rate material behaviour

11.20: Coffee break

11.50: Dr Mian Zhou: Materials process modelling at BCAST

12.10: Dr Marius Gintalas: Treatment of crack-tip constraint in defect assessment procedures

12.30: Dr Rui Cardoso:  Development of finite element techniques for structural integrity and manufacturing

12.50: Lunch break

14.00: Keynote Speech:  Professor John Dear, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London:  Modelling Impact and Repair of Composites for Sustainability

14.30: Dr Farzaneh Ghalamzan:  Hydro-mechanical Modelling of CO2 Injection in Deformable Porous Media  

14.50: Dr Ian Stone: Towards Full Metal Circulation

15.10: Dr Akram Zitoun: Exploring advanced structural Integrity Innovation and solutions at the Brunel Composites Centre

15.30: Tour of Brunel’s facilities

17:00: Professor Simon Shaw - Inaugural Lecture:  From Machine Tools to Machine Learning - via decay, dead poets, heart disease and finite elements.