Structures, Dynamics and Extreme Loading Group
To ensure a safe society from accidental events (fires, impact, gas explosions, errors in design, etc.), natural occurrences (hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding, etc.) or terrorist attacks, there is a need to understand both material and whole structural response under extreme loads.
Manchester has a well-known track record in researching the behaviour
of structures under fire, explosions, impact energy absorption, dynamic
response, and high strain rate material response.
The design research team is interwoven with the extreme loading investigations through research into risk and reliability methods. In addition, the design team also concentrates on through-life support of systems, equipment and components. This work comprises conditioning monitoring, single processing, damage detection, and project management.
Group members
Group Leader: Prof Yong Wang
Membership: Dr Hossam Abuel-Naga, Prof Robert A Ainsworth, Dr Teresa A Alonso-Rasgado, Prof Colin Bailey, Dr Adrian Bell, Dr Daniele Colombo, Dr Lee S Cunningham, Dr Keith Davey, Dr Taha Elhag, Dr Tianjian Ji, Dr Andrey P Jivkov, Dr Moray Kidd, Dr Qingming Li, Dr Parthasarathi Mandal, Mr Paul Nedwell, Dr S Olutunde Oyadiji, Mrs Laure A Pellet, Dr Lei Ren, Dr Jyoti Sinha, Mr Tom Swailes, Dr Azam Tafreshi, Prof Graham Thompson, Dr Jack Wu, Dr Zhenjun Yang, Dr Yong Zhang , Dr Zhenmin Zou
The 20th Annual Conference in Computational Mechanics
Manchester on 27-28th March 2012
The annual conference offers a premium forum for academics, researchers and practitioners in the UK and beyond to present their research on developments and applications in computational mechanics.