Department staff
Dr Andrew WatsonBEng, PhD, FHEA
Lecturer in Aerospace Structures
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 202
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email a.watson@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- Ph.D., Cardiff University - Buckling analysis and optimisation of prismatic thin-walled structures, 1998
- Post-doctoral researcher, Cardiff University, 1998-2003 on two consecutive EPSRC funded research projects
- Lecturer of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aernautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University, 2004 -
Current Responsibilities
- Module Leader for Structures and Materials
- Module Leader for Structural Design Project
Research Group
Materials and Structures Group
Research Interests and Activities
Lightweight Structures:
- Postbuckling behaviour of aerospace panels
- Mode jumping in aerospace panels
- Buckling and vibration behaviour of shear sensitive beams
- Buckling of composite panels
Mathematics:
- Transcendental eigenvalue problems
- Spectral theory of self-adjoint operator acting on graphs
External Activities
External Funding:
- EPSRC CASE award ‘Stability of aircraft structures’ supported by Airbus UK.
Invited Seminars:
- “Exact solutions for Sturm-Liouville problem on a tree” presented at Mathematical Physics Seminars, Loughborough University 2006
- “Numerical Analysis of Quantum Graphs” presented at Bath Centre for Non-Linear Mechanics, Bath University, 2008
- Tohuku University, Japan, 2009
- Hiroshima University, Japan, 2009
- ERASMUS funded visit to Brno Technical University, April 2011
Professional affiliations:
- Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy
International Conferences:
- Member of the organising committee for the 4th International Conference on Thin Walled Structures held at Loughborough University June 2004
Journal Refereeing:
- Thin-walled structures
- International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics
- Computer Modelling in Engineering & Sciences
- Journal of Sound and Vibration
- International Journal Structural Stability and Dynamics
- Journal of Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering Mathematics
- International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
University Administration
- Representative of Academic Staff on University Student Discipline Committee