Department staff
Dr Paul Cunningham MEng, PhD, FHEA
Lecturer in Advanced Aerospace Materials and Structures
Tel +44 (0)1509 227 280
Fax +44 (0)1509 227 275
Email p.cunningham@lboro.ac.uk
Background
- Airframe / Engine Craftsman, Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 1987 – 1992.
- M.Eng., University of Southampton - Aerospace Systems Engineering, 1992 – 1996.
- PhD and Research Assistant, University of Southampton – dynamic response of doubly curved composite sandwich structures to high intensity acoustic excitation, 2001.
- Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Southampton – Infra-red techniques to detect and characterise damage in composite structures, 2000 – 2002.
- Academic Staff, School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002 – 2004.
- Principal Stress Engineer, Smiths Aerospace (Hamble), 2004 – 2007.
- Lecturer in Advanced Aerospace Materials and Structures, Loughborough University, 2007 - present.
Current Responsibilities
Part C Aero Tutor.
Research Groups
Light Weight Structures
Research Interests and Activities
- Advanced Aircraft Structures.
- Design and Manufacture
- Stress Analysis
- Composite Materials and Structures.
- Out-of-Autoclave Processing
- Damage Initiation and Growth
- Multi-axis Fibre Architectures
- Experimental Mechanics
- Thermoelastic Stress Analysis
- Pulse-Phase Thermography
External Activities
Professional Affiliations
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Major Conference Activity
- Member of the National Technical Committee for the 17th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM17), 27th-31st July 2009, Edinburgh, UK
- Organiser of The Symposium on Sandwich Structures (ICCM17)
- Member of the International Scientific Committee for the 7th International Conference on Modern Practice in Stress and Vibration Analysis (MPSVA), 8th-10th September 2009, University of Cambridge, UK
- Member of the technical committee for the 6th British Society for Strain Measurement International Conference on Recent Advances in Experimental Mechanics, 9th – 11th September, 2008, NPL, London, UK
Journal Referee
- The Journal of Composite Materials.
- Composites Science and Technology.
- Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials.
- Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing.
Funded Research Projects
Next Generation Composite Structures from Multi-Architecture Pre-Form Systems, 2009 – 2010.
Transport iNet Higher Education Collaboration Fund project in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and M. Wright and Sons Ltd. Funded by the East Midlands Development Agency and the European Regional Development Fund.
Awards
- William Sweet Smith Prize. Awarded by the Aerospace Industries Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 2002.