Dynamics and Vibration Research Group

My research focuses on three Engineering overarching grand-challenges:
(i) Design under uncertainty and nonlinearity;
(ii) Monitoring and modelling complex systems for remaining useful life assessment under uncertainty, nonlinearity and sparse noisy data;
(iii) Development of explainable and interpretable machine learning strategies for engineering applications.

My research focuses on fundamental studies aimed at predicting, understanding, measuring, exploiting and controlling vibration in nonlinear complex structures across a wide range of contexts; integrates theory, numerical modelling, data-driven methods, and experimental testing to develop predictive tools and physical insight for structurally complex and challenging systems...

My research theme is Energy, Transport and Urban infrastructure including sustainable road freight, ultra-low-emission electric buses, heavy goods vehicles development and driver-vehicle dynamic interaction...

My research interests lie broadly within the field of Structural Dynamics. Works include computationally efficient models for the analysis of wave propagation and soil-structure interaction, urban-scale modelling within the EU project, dynamic measurements for detecting scour around bridge piers...

My research interests lie in sustainable road freight, vehicle dynamics consortium, heavy vehicle 'weigh-in-motion' technology, damage to road surfaces and bridges...

My research interests include Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering, Vibration of turbocharger wheels – mistuning, Sustainable Energy - wind and wave power

My research is centred on randomness and uncertainty in engineering dynamics. Particular applications of the research include:
(i) The dynamics of marine systems
(ii) Noise and vibration in aerospace and automotive structures
(iii) High frequency electromagnetic compatibility

My research interests include:
(i) Mechanics of musical instruments
(ii) Brake squeal and other frictionally-excited vibration
(iii) Vibration of complex structures
(iv) Identification and modelling of vibration damping

My research interests are
(i) Active noise reduction and audio reproduction in wearables
(ii) Active noise reduction in systems with nonlinear dynamics (automobiles)
(iii) Audio reproduction in rooms

Elastodynamics/Structural Dynamics

Vibration, structural dynamics, statistical mechanics, uncertainty, stochastic processes, nonlinearity, acoustics.

Investigating human driving characteristics, the way in which humans learn to drive, and how this and other contextual factors impact upon human selection of control actions in various scenarios...

Vibration, dynamics, nonlinearity, control, acoustics, physics-informed machine learning.

Sustainable road logistics
Vehicle dynamics and control
Electric vehicles
Autonomous vehicles
Transportation and traffic flow
Energy systems

Developing a Physics-Informed Machine Learning framework for design optimisation of Locally Resonant Metamaterials under uncertainties.