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Dr James Blake

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • James is interested in the fundamental way that fluid and structures interact and the practical consequences on the design and operation of marine vehicles:
  • Sustainable structural materials for composite boat design and production;
  • Experimental & theoretical analysis of composite material performance;
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Professor James Scanlan

Professor of Design
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Dr Jamie Crispin

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Design of offshore wind turbine foundations
  • Theoretical and numerical solutions to soil-structure interaction problems
  • Predicting deformations of monopiles and pile groups

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Jen Muggleton BSc (Eng), ACGI, PhD, MA

Professor of Pipeline Dynamics

Research interests

  • Detection and location of buried infrastructure using vibration techniques.
  • Acoustic leak detection in pipes.
  • Vibration of fluid-filled pipes.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jennifer Forrester

Design Consultant

Research interests

  • Geometry representation for machine learning
  • Robust design and uncertainty propagation
  • Structural design with composites
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Dr Jiahong Zhao PhD

Lecturer in Acoustics

Research interests

  • Microphone array signal processing,
  • spatial audio,
  • machine learning and computer vision.

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jie Yuan FRAeS, FHEA, CEng

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Computational methods for large-scale nonlinear dynamical systems
  • Dynamic control using novel functional material and interface
  • Non-deterministic approaches for robust optimisation and identification

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Jinghua Tang BEng, MSc, PhD

Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Research interests

  • Biomedical Sensors
  • Musculoskeletal Biomechanics
  • Interface Materials

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Mr Jinze Sha

Senior Research Assistant
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Professor Joel Smethurst BEng PhD GMICE FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Deterioration of geotechnical infrastructure subject to both seasonal cycles of wetting and drying and applied traffic loading
  • The effect of extreme weather events and climate change on the performance of earthworks (cuttings and embankments) and flood levees
  • The effects of vegetation transpiration and root reinforcement on the performance of earthworks

Accepting applications from PhD students

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