I am a Senior Lecturer in Solid Mechanics at the University of Bath and a member of both the Advanced Design & Manufacturing (ADM) and Materials & Structures (MAST) groups. I have a diverse set of research interests, particularly relating to the mechanics and manufacturing of thin-shell structures.
Recent Projects
Expanding the build plate
Functional morphing 3D printed structures through anisotropy. [in a special edition of Frontiers in Materials on Nonlinear Structured Materials]
Folding-shearing of sheet metal
A patented new forming process inspired by traditional craft techniques. [CIRP Annals]
Additive manufacture of multistable structures
Expanding the design possibilities in AM (with R. Lewis and C. Bowen). [SMS]
Classification and selection of sheet forming processes with machine learning
A new use for Machine Learning in Metal Forming (with E. Hamouche). [IJCIM paper]
Asymmetric mandel-free spinning
We produced highly asymmetric spun parts for the first time. [ICTP17 paper]
Bistable gridshells
3D printing multistable structures (with A. Ntrekos). Based on earlier work with K. Seffen. [IJSS paper]