School of Engineering PhD Conference – 1st July 2016

Session: Materials (Morning & Afternoon)

Session Chairs: Professor Geoff Dearden (Morning) & Dr Richard Potter (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Stuart Edwardson (Morning) & Dr Dan Walker (Afternoon)
Venue: Brodie Tower, Room 106

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30 Paolo Pizzol Geoff Dearden & Stuart Chalker, Black Superconducting thin films for RF cavities
Edwardson
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Edgar Avalos Gauna Geoff Dearden & Stuart Zhao, Dennis Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer in Porous Metals for Cooling
Edwardson Applications
11.30-12.00 Zhining Wu Geoff Dearden & Stuart Zhao, Sutcliffe, Bertola Porous metals for thermal management
Edwardson
12.00-12.30 Pengcheng Zhu Geoff Dearden & Stuart Zhao, Potter Electrochemical properties of porous metals manufactured by lost
Edwardson carbonate sintering
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00 Muhd Azimin Ab Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Au Develop Ductile Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites Using
Ghani Walker Hybrid Fibre Prepreg Techniques
2.00-2.30 Nassier Almtteri Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Birch Evaluate residual strength of fibre reinforced composite laminates
Walker after impact damage
2.30-3.00 Ali Al-Rafaie Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Jones Lateral Impact Response of Concrete Filled Steel Tube Column to
Walker Beam Connection
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Adil Jamil Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Cantwell Optimising the blast resistance of reinforced Polyurethane cores
Walker
4.00-4.30 S Kanna Subramaniyan Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Cantwell Composite Lattice Core Sandwich Panels for Impact Resistance
Walker
4.30-5.00 Ziwen Xu Richard Potter & Dan Guan, Cantwell Multi-scale Modelling of Fibre-reinforced Composites Subjected to
Walker Impact and Blast
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Session: Additive Manufacturing (Morning) & Lasers (Afternoon)

Session Chairs: Dr Matt Murphy (Morning) & Dr Peter Fox (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Zhongwei Guan (Morning) & Professor Karl Whittle (Afternoon)
Venue: Brodie Tower, Room 107

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30 Phanphong Kongphan Matt Murphy & Sutcliffe, Maddox, The Design and Development of Breed Specific Total Joint
Zhongwei Guan Innes, Jones Replacement for Dogs
9.30-10.00 Eduardo Bonilla Matt Murphy & Black, Curran, Hunt Inkjet printing for bio-medical applications
Bustillo Zhongwei Guan
10.00-10.30 Danielle Mehta Matt Murphy & Black, Aspinall Inkjet Manufacturing of Electrochemical Gas Sensors
Zhongwei Guan
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Samuel Evans Matt Murphy & Sutcliffe, Fox Analysis and Improvement of SLM Manufactured Porous Structures
Zhongwei Guan for Use in Orthopaedic Implants
11.30-12.00 Donal Lynch Matt Murphy & Sutcliffe, Fox Improving Selective Laser Melting Methods for Reduced Materials
Zhongwei Guan Use
12.00-12.30 Hay Wong Matt Murphy & Sutcliffe, Fox In-Situ Monitoring Techniques Development for the Electron Beam
Zhongwei Guan Melting Process
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00 Hui Gao Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Edwardson, Dearden Simulation and empirical study of 3d macro scale laser forming of
metallic materials
2.00-2.30 Jiangning Li Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Edwardson, Dearden Precision laser surface texturing for controlled biological interactions
2.30-3.00 Guangyu Zhu Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Dearden, Edwardson Ultrafast laser structuring in PMMA with advanced polarisation states
and vortex wavefronts
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Dunia Lopez Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Dearden, Edwardson Additive Manufacturing for Advanced Sensor Development
Espiricueta
4.00-4.30 Jing Liu Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Edwardson, Dearden 3D printing/additive manufacturing using laser based blown powder
cladding - customisable material properties
4.30-5.00 Vincent Page Peter Fox & Karl Whittle Shenton, Dearden The Laser Ignition of IC Engines and the In Combustion Event
Feedback (ICEF) Control
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Session: Fluids (Morning) & Biomechanics & Biomaterials (Afternoon)

Session Chairs: Dr Mark Johnson (Morning) & Professor Rob Poole (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Jonathan Bridge (Morning) & Dr David Dennis (Afternoon)
Venue: Brodie Tower, Room 302

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00 Bayode Owolabi Mark Johnson & Dennis, Poole Investigation of turbulent Couette-Poiseuille flow of Newtonian fluid
Jonathan Bridge inside a square duct: experiments with complimentary numerical
simulations
10.00-10.30 Chaofan Wen Mark Johnson & Dennis, Poole The Mechanism Leading to Asymmetry in Transitional Pipe Flow of
Jonathan Bridge Drag-Reducing Fluids
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Haonan Xu Mark Johnson & Poole, Owen Manufacture, characterisation and novel applications of
Jonathan Bridge superhydrophobic surfaces
11.30-12.00 Simeng Chen Mark Johnson & Bertola, Poole The drop impact of complex fluids on soft surfaces
Jonathan Bridge
12.00-12.30 Peng Zheng Mark Johnson & Li, Wolf, Thorne, Develop a 3D Coastal-Estuarine Morphological Model System for Long
Jonathan Bridge Burrows Term Prediction
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00 Kai-Jung Chen Rob Poole & David Elsheikh, Jones Accurate Estimation of Intraocular Pressure and Corneal Material
Dennis Behaviour Using a Non-contact Method
2.00-2.30 Sherif Hassan Rob Poole & David Elsheikh, Akhtar Regional variation of ocular Biomechanical properties
Dennis
2.30-3.00 Rosti Hama Rashid Rob Poole & David Comerford, Elsheikh The contribution of proteoglycans to the canine cruciate ligament
Dennis complex in macroscopic and finite element models
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Zhuola Rob Poole & David Akhtar, Elsheikh Multi-Scale Mechanical Property Mapping of Sclera
Dennis
4.00-4.30
4.30-5.00
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Session: Dynamics and Control (Morning) & Civil Engineering (Afternoon)

Session Chairs: Dr Paolo Paoletti (Morning), Dr Tom Shenton (Morning) & Dr Peter Green (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Tim Bullough (Morning), Professor Huajiang Ouyang (Morning) & Dr Jian Zhou (Afternoon)
Venue: Brodie Tower, Room 402

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00
10.00-10.30 Andrew Alvin Tom Shenton & Ouyang Paoletti, Jump A new method of automated algorithm discovery for the control of
robot swarms
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Peng Liang Tom Shenton & Ouyang Mottershead, Patelli, Stochastic model updating with surrogate models
Diaz De La O
11.30-12.00 Shancheng Cao Paolo Paoletti & Tim Ouyang, Mottershead Vibration-based Structural Damage Identification
Bullough
12.00-12.30 Jing Yang Paolo Paoletti & Tim Ouyang, Jones The vibration and control of bridges excited by moving vehicles
Bullough
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00
2.00-2.30 Suyi Fan Peter Green & Jian Zhou Judge, Jones Characterisation and Risk of Disproportionate Collapse of Cable-
Supported Structures
2.30-3.00 Matthew Kidd Peter Green & Jian Zhou Judge, Jones Robustness of Simple or Semi-Rigid Structural Steel Connections
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Duraid Abd Peter Green & Jian Zhou Al-Khalid, Akhtar Fundamental Characterisation of Warm Asphalt Mixtures with
Addition of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement
4.00-4.30 Mohammed Sadeq Peter Green & Jian Zhou Al-Khalid, Masad Short- and Long-term Assessment of Warm Mix Asphalt (WMA) in the
State of Qatar
4.30-5.00
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Session: Flight Science (Morning & Afternoon), Virtual Engineering Group (Afternoon)
Session Chairs: Dr Mark White (Morning), Professor Ieuan Owen (Morning) & Dr Neil Cameron (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Ming Li (Morning & Afternoon) & Dr Sebastiano Fichera (Morning & Afternoon)
Venue: Brodie Tower, Room 405

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30
9.30-10.00 Philipp Bekemeyer Mark White & Ming Li Timme, Badcock Enhanced Fidelity Transonic Wing - Simulation of Flexible Wing Gust
Loads
10.00-10.30 Guanqun Gai Mark White & Ming Li Timme, Badcock Gust Load Alleviation Exploiting Structural Nonlinearity
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Giampaolo Pagliuca Mark White & Ming Li Timme, Badcock ROM for dynamic manoeuvre predictions
11.30-12.00 Matthew Forster Mark White & Stejil, Badcock Fundamental modelling of transonic circulation control
Sebastiano Fichera
12.00-12.30 Jade Adams-White Mark White & Jump, Wheatcroft A toolkit to measure accuracy and decision confidence in human-
Sebastiano Fichera machine interaction across states, environments and decision danger
in the operations room
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00 Christopher Dadswell Ieuan Owen & Jump, White Optical Tau-Based Control of Maritime Unmanned Air Systems
Sebastiano Fichera
2.00-2.30 Michael Kelly Neil Cameron & White, Owen The Development, Validation and Integration of Carrier Airwake
Sebastiano Fichera Simulations for use in Fixed-Wing and Rotary-Wing Flight Simulation
2.30-3.00 Rebecca Mateer Neil Cameron & White, Owen The Effect of Ship Engine Exhaust on Maritime Helicopter Operations
Sebastiano Fichera
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Safinatunnajah Neil Cameroon & Ming Short, Cole Integrating Preferences of User for Sustainable Automotive Industry
Ahmadi Li
4.00-4.30 Guzin Sen Neil Cameroon & Ming Sener-Pedgley, Murray Sensorially Enriched Passenger Experience and Evaluation Using
Li Virtual Design and Simulation
4.30-5.00 Sevcan Yardim Sener Neil Cameroon & Ming Pedgley, Murray User Requirements Elicitation and Application to Improve Driver
Li Wellbeing through Virtual Design and Simulation
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Session: Risk Institute

Session Chairs: Dr Adam Mannis (Morning) & Dr Edoardo Patelli (Afternoon)
Session Second assessors: Dr Francisco Alejandro Diaz De La O (Morning), Professor Ivan Au (Afternoon) & Dr Adam Mannis (Afternoon)
Venue: Harrison Hughes Building, Mason Bibby Common Room

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30 Yang Zou Adam Mannis & Francisco Jones, Kiviniemi BIM and Knowledge based Risk Management System
Alejandro Diaz De La O
9.30-10.00 Geng Feng Adam Mannis & Francisco Patelli, Beer Reliability and availability of industrial systems
Alejandro Diaz De La O
10.00-10.30 Raphael Moura Adam Mannis & Francisco Patelli, Beer, Lewis, Risk mitigation: human errors and preventive design and project
Alejandro Diaz De La O Knoll management
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30 Oscar Nieto-Cerezo Adam Mannis & Francisco Patelli, Cooper, Optimal risk and benefit sharing and management in large energy
Alejandro Diaz De La O Wenzelburger, Beer projects
11.30-12.00 David Opeyemi Adam Mannis & Francisco Patelli, Cooper, Design for robustness
Alejandro Diaz De La O Wenzelburger, Beer
12.00-12.30 Yuanjin Zhang Adam Mannis & Francisco Patelli, Beer, Efficient probabilistic techniques for earthquake engineering
Alejandro Diaz De La O Kougiomtzoglou applications
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00 Alfredo Garbuno Edoardo Patelli & Ivan Au Diaz De La O, Zuev Optimization and metamodelling for future methods of renewable
Inigo energy generation
2.00-2.30 Zitong Gong Edoardo Patelli & Ivan Au Diaz De La O, Beer History matching and stochastic finite element model calibration
2.30-3.00 Peter Hristov Edoardo Patelli & Ivan Au Diaz De La O, Kubiak Model calibration and reliability analysis of engine biodiesel/water
separation process on porous fibrous filters
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00 Yanlong Xie Edoardo Patelli & Adam Au, Diaz De La O Structural system identification with applications to structural health
Mannis monitoring
4.00-4.30 Yichen Zhu Edoardo Patelli & Adam Au, Jones Structural system identification with civil engineering applications
Mannis
4.30-5.00
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Session: Structural Mechanics

Session Chairs: Dr Chris Sebastian
Session Second assessors: Dr Ryan Judge
Venue: Harrison Hughes Building, Griffiths Board Room

Time Name Assessment Panel Supervisors Thesis title

9.00-9.30 Khurram Amjad Chris Sebastian & Ryan Patterson, Wang Study of residual stresses around cold-expanded holes
Judge
9.30-10.00 William Christian Chris Sebastian & Ryan Patterson, Diaz De La O Damage Recognition and Classification on Composite Aerospace
Judge Structures
10.00-10.30 Ksenija Dvurecenska Chris Sebastian & Ryan Patterson, Patelli Validation of computational mechanics models
Judge
10.30-11.00 Morning Break
11.00-11.30
11.30-12.00
12.00-12.30
12.30-1.30 Lunch Break
1.30-2.00
2.00-2.30
2.30-3.00
3.00-3.30 Afternoon Break
3.30-4.00
4.00-4.30
4.30-5.00