A list of past seminars held by the Solid Mechanics and Materials research group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.
Past Seminars
2023
Michaelmas Term
Week 3 - 23 Oct
Professor Lik-Ho Tam, Department of Civil Engineering, Beihang University,
China
“Multi-Scale and Machine Learning Investigation on Structural and Property
Characterization of Fiber-Reinforced Composite Materials.”
Week 4 - 30 Oct
Dr Yasemin Sengul Tezel, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, UK
“Nonlinear Viscoelasticity: Modelling, Analysis and Applications.”
Week 5 - 06 Nov
Professor Emilio Martinez-Paneda, Department of Engineering Science,
University of Oxford, UK
“Predictive models for multi-physics challenges: Li-Ion battery degradation, hydrogenassisted cracking and (bio) corrosion.”
Week 6 - 13 Nov
Professor Fehmi Cirak, Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge
“Statistical finite elements for synthesis of observation data and model predictions.”
Week 7 - 20 Nov
Dr Antonio Forte, Department of Engineering, Kings College London,
“Inverse design for shape morphing in mechanical metamaterials.”
Week 8 - 27 Nov
Professor Simon Bland, Department of Physics, Imperial College, London
“From synchrotrons to X-pinches, exploring HEDP with the largest and smallest of
tools.
2022
Michaelmas Term
Week 2 - 17th Oct
Professor Martin Attfield, Department of Chemistry, Natural Sciences,
University of Manchester, UK
“Towards the Engineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks”
Week 3 - 19th Oct
Professor Geoffrey Mitchell, Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal
“Manufacturing The Revolution”
Week 3 - 24th Oct
Dr Tim Johnson, Research Scientist at Johnson Matthey, London, UK
“Agile and fast – research using open source in-situ monitoring tools”
Week 4 - 31st Oct
Dr Yueting Sun, Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Birmingham University, UK
“Energy Absorption of Nanoporous Materials”
Week 5 - 7th Nov
Professor Michael Ortiz, Frank and Ora-Lee Marble Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA
“Model-Free Data-Driven Computational Mechanics”
Week 6 - 14th Nov
Dr Catherine Rae, Professor of Superalloys, Materials Science and Metallurgy,
Cambridge University, UK
“Deformation in Single Crystal Superalloys: The links between Tensile deformation, Creep and Fatigue”
Week 7 - 21st Nov
Dr Maria Teresa Pérez-Prado, Senior Scientist, Sustainable Metallurgy Group, IMDEA Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain
“Microstructural design by additive manufacturing”
Week 8 - 28th Nov
Dr Mokarram Hossain, Associate Professor, General Engineering, Swansea University, Wales, UK
“Experimental investigations and mathematical modelling of the human oesophagus:
Layer-dependent anisotropic properties under large deformation”
Hilary Term
Week 1 - 18th January
Prof. Samantha Daly, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of California at Santa Barbara
"Data-Driven Approaches for High-Throughput Experiments and Analysis of Processing-Property Relationships"
Week 2. 25th January: Dr Suchandrima Das, University of Oxford
Week 3. 1st February: Dr Sylvie Aubrey
Week 4. 8th February: Prof. Jaafar El-Awady
Week 5. 15th February:
Marc Geers1, Varun Shah1, Mathieu Oude Vrielink1, Yu Li2, Hans van Dommelen1, Thomas Morgan2, Johan Hoefnagels1
"Extreme materials for extreme applications: tungsten in a fusion reactor"
1Eindhoven University of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Netherlands
2Dutch Institute for fundamental energy research, DIFFER, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Week 6. 22nd February: Prof. Markus J. Buehler, MIT
Bioinspired Materials by Design
Week 7. 1st March: Dr Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham,
The kinematic generation of dislocations as a lattice resonance
Week 9. 8th March: Prof Stefan Sandfeld
2020
Trinity Term
Week 1 12 October, 2020: Formation and shrinkage of grain boundary loops in two-dimensional colloidal crystals by Prof. Roel Dullens, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford
Week 2 October 19, 2020: Hydrogen induced fast fracture by Prof. Vikram S Deshpande, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Week 3 October 26, 2020: Understanding Central Crack Formation in a Cross Wedge Rolling Manufacturing Process by Dr Jun Jiang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London
Week 4 Nov 2, 2020: Exploring the dynamic behavior of shock compressed crystalline materials from a continuum perspective by Dr Darby J. Luscher, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Week 5 Nov 9, 2020: Measuring and modelling deformation in engineering alloys at the sub-micron scale by Prof. João Quinta da Fonseca, Department of Materials, University of Manchester
Week 6 Nov 16, 2020: Speed is relative: imaging in blast and biomechanics by Dr Hari Arora, College of Engineering, Swansea University
Week 7 Nov 23, 2020: Engineering with Alloys – a Micromechanics & Microstructure Perspective by Dr Ben Britton, Department of Materials, Imperial College London
Week 8 Nov 30, 2020: Exploring dislocation networks for continuum modelling by Prof. Katrin Schulz, Institute for Applied Materials, KIT
Mar 09, 2020: Dr Mahmoud Mostafavi, Faculty of Engineering, Bristol University, UK Modelling and measurement of visco-plastic deformation of cubic systems at micro-level
Mar 02, 2020: Prof Maria Charalambides, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK,
Towards predictive models for fracture in highly filled particulate composites
Feb 24, 2020: Prof Laurent Stainier, Research Institute in Civil & Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Centrale Nantes, France
Feb 17, 2020: Dr Simon Gill, Reader in Mechanics of Materials, School of Engineering, University of Leicester, UK
Modelling the stress-driven reorientation of zirconium hydrides
Predictive Modelling of Hydrogen Assisted Fracture
Feb 03, 2020: Dr Edmund Tarleton, Department of Engineering Science, Univeristy of oxford, UK
Simulating micromechanical tests using discrete dislocation and crystal plasticity
Jan 27, 2020: Prof Laurence Brassart, Department of Engineering Science, Univeristy of Oxford, UK
Micromechanics of near-ideal polymer networks
Jan 20, 2020: Prof Philip Bayly, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Washington University, USA
The Brain in Motion: Visualizing Brain Biomechanics and Understanding Traumatic Brain Injury
2019
Jun 17, 2019: Dr Thiago Ritto, Mechanical Engineering Department, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Uncertainties in the dynamical response and stability of mechanical systems: modeling, simulation and lab experiments
Jun 10, 2019: Dr Perla Maiolino Oxford Robotic Institute, University of Oxford
Robots with a sense of Touch
May 28, 2019: Dr Elisa Mele, Department of Materials, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Materials with engineered porosity for biomedical applications
May 20, 2019: Professor Guglielmo Aglietti, Surrey Space Centre, University of Surrey, UK
The RemoveDebris mission development and in-orbit operations
May 13, 2019: Professor Ezio Cadoni University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Switzerland.
High strain rate behaviour of construction materials
May 07, 2019: CANCELLED - Professor Lisa Jackson, Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University
Enhancing fuel cell performance understanding through failure modelling and health monitoring
May 02, 2019: Professor Javier Llorca, IMDEA Materials Institute and Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
A roadmap for multiscale modelling of precipitation and precipitation hardening in metallic alloys: application to Al-Cu
Apr 29, 2019: Professor Coen van Gulijk Institute of Railway Research, University of Huddersfield
Digital Re-Engineering Safety Management Systems
Mar 11, 2019: Professor Kristin M. Myers, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, USA
Computational Biomechanical Models of Human Pregnancy – Evaluating the Risk of Preterm Birth
Deformation processes and flow within stressed rocks: a non-conventional lab-scale approach
Feb 25, 2019: Dr Pierfrancesco Cacciola, School of Environment and Technology, University of Brighton
Seismic Protection of Existing structures through the Vibrating Barrier (ViBa) device
Feb 19, 2019: Dr Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE, Switzerland
Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE
Feb 18, 2019: Dr Pete Green, Department of Civil Engineering and Industrial Design, University of Liverpool, UK
On the adoption of Machine Learning for Engineering Applications
Feb 11, 2019: Dr Ole Nielsen, Research Engineer, BOSE Acoustic Research USA
Bose waveguide technology
Feb 04, 2019: Professor Davide De Focatiis MA DPhil MIMMM CSci, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
New Test fixtures and methods for testing polymeric materials: miniature bending, biaxial and tack
The Mechanochemistry of Metal-Organic Frameworks and of Crystals
Jan 21, 2019: Prof. Bartolomeo Civalleri, Department of Chemistry, University of Torino, Italy
Ab initio modelling of materials with CRYSTAL: Metal-Organic Frameworks as a case study
Jan 14, 2019: Prof Andreas Menzel UK, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TU Dortmund, Germany
Modelling and simulation of electroactive polymers
2018
Nov 26, 2018: Dr Matthew Peel, Mechanical Engineering, University of Bristol, UK
Evolution of stress in martensite during pulsed laser heating
Nov 19, 2018: Dr Hugh Goyder, Cranfield University at the Defence Academy, Shrivenham UK
Some dynamics of bolted interfaces
Nov 12, 2018: Professor Janice M. Dulieu-Barton, Mechanical Engineering, University of Southampton, UK
Using thermomechanical behaviour to assess the material condition in the vicinity of welds in 316 L stainless steel
Nov 05, 2018: Dr Tom Hill, University of Bristol, UK
Extending the concept of linear modes to nonlinear systems
Oct 29, 2018: Dr Christoph Schwingshackl, Imperial College London, UK
Nonlinear dynamic analysis of Underplatform Dampers
Oct 22, 2018: Dr Marco De Angelis, Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, UK
Digital simulation with uncertain numbers: feeding models with intervals and p-boxes
Oct 15, 2018: Dr Beñat Gurrutxaga-Lerma, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
A study of time dependent transient effects in dynamic contact
Oct 08, 2018: Prof Marty Gregg, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Towards Ephemeral Nanoelectronics: Understanding and Creating Domain Wall Circuitry
Jul 20, 2018: Prof. Mike Short & Mr. Cody Denett, MIT, USA
Real-time property monitoring during ion beam irradiation using transient grating spectroscopy (Denett)
Jul 02, 2018: Prof. Avinash M. Dongare, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Institute of Materials Science
Unraveling the Evolution of Microstructure of Materials at the Atomic Scales and the Mesoscales under Shock Loading Conditions
Jun 22, 2018: Ludovic Noels
Jun 04, 2018: Prof. Virginie Chamard, Institut Fresnel, Marseille, France
Deciphering biomineralization pathways with a new x-ray Bragg microscopy
May 29, 2018: Prof Ralf Deiterding, University of Southampton, UK
May 21, 2018: Prof Andrew Maiden,University of Sheffield, UK
Ptychography: What it is, how it works, and what it can do
May 14, 2018: Dr Matthew Peel, University of Bristol, UK
Apr 30, 2018: Prof. Tomas Polcar
Solid Lubrication – from 2D Materials to Industrial Applications
Apr 23, 2018: Prof Paul G Evans, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Picosecond-Scale Structural Dynamics in Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics: Exotic Polarization States and Structural Transformations
Mar 26, 2018: Prof. Ivan Argatov Institut für Mechanik, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Asymptotic modelling of load sharing in bioinspired fibrillar adhesives: Cluster of the Kendall-type adhesive microcontacts
Mar 05, 2018: Prof. Stéphane Bordas, Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Some numerical methods for the simulation of free boundary problems and a discussion on opportunities and challenges posed by data-driven simulation
Feb 26, 2018: Dr Tony Moulder, AWE Aldermaston, UK
Industrial Applications of Structural Dynamics
Feb 19, 2018: Dr Rebecca Shipley, University College London, UK
Computational Modelling as a Tool to Direct the Design of Tissue-Engineered Peripheral Nerve Repair Constructs
from Feb 05, 2018: Prof D Eakins, University of Oxford, UK
Freezing the supersonic: Revealing the mesoscale of dynamically compressed matter through fast, synchrotron X-ray imaging
Feb 12, 2018: Dr Tim Johns, Mathworks, UK
Simulating racing cars and drivers in the real world
Jan 29, 2018: Prof David Dye, Imperial College London, UK
Adventures in Alloys
Jan 22, 2018: Prof Peter Lee, University of Manchester, UK
Seeing materials through a Synchrotron looking glass
Jan 15, 2018: Prof Tomonari Inamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Effect of incompatibility on martensite microstructure in shape memory alloy
2017
Nov 20, 2017: Dr. John Francis (School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester, UK
Solid-State Phase Transformations and their Influence on Residual Stresses in Steel Welds
Nov 13, 2017: Prof. Lars Hansen (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, UK)
Size effects in geological materials: Resolving 40 years of debate on the strength of the lithosphere
Nov 06, 2017: Dr. Alba Sofi (University of Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria)
Finite Element Procedures for the Analysis of Structures with Interval Uncertainties
Oct 30, 2017: Prof. Alison Davenport (School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, UK)
Shedding Light on Corrosion
Oct 23, 2017: Dr. Alex Argyros (Noble Denton Marine Services (DNV GL), London UK)
$1 billion loss – What was the missing link?
Oct 18, 2017: Dr. Edoardo Patelli (School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, UK)
An Intuitive Simulation Framework for reconfigurable complex multi-state systems with interdependencies
Oct 16, 2017: Dr. Paul Shearing, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College, London,
Exploring Electrochemical Devices Using X-ray Tomography Across Multiple Time & Length Scales
Oct 09, 2017: Dr Kevin M. Knowles (Department of Materials, University of Cambridge, UK),
Fourth-rank tensor algebra of cubic materials
Aug 09, 2017: Professor Brian Mace (Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Auckland, New Zealand),
Waves and finite elements
Jul 27, 2017: Dr. Dmitry Dzhigaev, DESY, Hambury, Germany,
Characterization of single nanowires with coherent x-ray imaging and Bragg ptychography
Jun 12, 2017: Dr. Edmund Tarleton (Department of Materials, Oxford University),
Dislocation based modelling of micromechanical tests
Jun 06, 2017: Prof. Robin Langley (Engineering, University of Cambridge),
Something for nothing in the analysis of complex dynamic systems
May 30, 2017: Prof. Christoph Ortner (Mathematics Institute, Univeristy of Warwick)
QM/MM Multi-scale Schemes with Rigorous Error Control for Atomic-Scale Material Modelling
May 23, 2017: Dr. Ole Neilson (BOSE, Engineering Department, Cambridge University),
Project Sound
May 22, 2017: Prof. Dominic Vella (Maths, University of Oxford)
Not so fast: The role of confinement in elastic instability
May 15, 2017: Prof. Michele Ciavarella (Politecnico di Bari, Italy),
Is there a contact area between elastic bodies in contact? & Some possible new ideas for fretting fatigue
Apr 24, 2017: Prof. Benoit Devincre (Laboratoire d'Etude des Microstructures, France)
Improving crystal plasticity models with dislocation dynamics simulations
Mar 17, 2017: Prof. George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut)
Particle-based modeling of the axon and single molecule AFM experiments on SK channels in pyramidal neurons
Mar 06, 2017: Prof. Stephen Hallett (University of Bristol, UK),
High Fidelity Modelling of Low Velocity Impact Damage in Laminated Composites
Feb 28, 2017: Prof. Jim Woodhouse (University of Cambridge, UK),
Can we Predict Friction-Driven Vibration?
Feb 20, 2017: Prof. Daniele Dini (Imperial College London, UK),
Modelling in Tribology: a Multidisciplinary Journey from Molecules to Engineering Applications
Feb 13, 2017: Dr. Sam Vinko (University of Oxford, UK),
Investigating Hot-Dense Plasmas with X-ray Free-Electron Lasers
Feb 06, 2017: Dr. Alice Cicirello (University of Oxford, UK),
Uncertainty Models in Structural Dynamics
Jan 30, 2017: Prof. Michael Preuss (University of Manchester, UK),
The Long Journey of Understanding Degraduation Mechanisms in Zr-based Nuclear Fuel Cladding
Jan 23, 2017: Prof. James Kermode (Warwick University, UK),
Multiscale Modelling of Materials Chemomechanics
Jan 16, 2017: Dr. Maxime Dupraz (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland),
Characterization of the Microstructure of Small Crystals using Coherent X-ray Diffraction and Atomistic Simulations
2016
Nov 28, 2016: Dr. Daniel Mulvihill (University of Glasgow, UK),
Potential Routes to Stronger Carbon Nanotube (CNT) Fibres via Carbon Ion Irradiation and Deposition
Nov 14, 2016: Dr. Leo Ma (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK),
Fundamentals and Applications of Magnetic Spin-Lattice Dynamics
Nov 07, 2016: Prof. Marc FIVEL (SIMAP-GPM2, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France),
Crack Initiation and Propagation in Fatigues 216L Stainless Steels: A 3D Dislocation Dynamics Investigation
Nov 01, 2016: Dr. Raymond Veness & Dr Rudiger Schmidt (CERN),
The Large Hadron Collider: Extreme Mechanics and Materials Challenges
Oct 24, 2016: Prof. Roel Dullens (University of Oxford, UK),
Dynamics of Grain Boundary Loops in Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals
Oct 17, 2016: Prof. Pierre Thibault (Southampton University, UK),
X-ray ptychography
Oct 12, 2016: Prof. Stan Lynch (Monash University, Australia),
Atomistics of Hydrogen Embrittlement: HEDE versus HELP versus AIDE
Oct 10, 2016: Dr. Tiina Roose (Southampton University, UK),
Multiscale Image Based Modelling in Biology
Oct 05, 2016: Prof. Adrien Desjardins (UCL, UK),
Next Generation Medical Devices with Integrated Optical and Ultrasonic Sensors
Oct 01, 2016: Dr. Rüdiger Schmidt, CERN
Self-Assembled 3D Shape Formation Induced by Chemical Stimuli
Jun 23, 2016: M. Castelluccio, Sandia National Laboratories, NM, USA,
Mesoscale-SENSITIVE crystal plasticity
Jun 13, 2016: Dr. Hannah Joyce, Cambridge Engineering,
Semiconductor Nanowires: From Growth to Device Applications
Jun 09, 2016: Professor J. N. Reddy, Texas A & M University, College Station,
On numerical simulations of physical phenomena and nonlocal and strain gradient theories
Jun 07, 2016: Dr Wesley Williams, Louisiana State University,
Large-Scale Experimental Fluid Mechanics in the Oil and Gas Industry and Beyond
Jun 06, 2016: Dr Mithila Achintha University of Southampton,
Structural Glass: From Brittle Glass to Ductile Glass–GFRP Hybrids
May 31, 2016: Prof Riyi Shi, Purdue University,
A Multimodal Investigation of Traumatic Brain Injury: From Biomechanics to Beha
May 23, 2016: Dr Ling Wu, University of Liege, Belgium,
Probabilistic prediction of the quality factor of micro-resonator using a stochastic thermo-mechanical multi-scale approach
May 16, 2016: Professor Joseph Grima, Metamaterials Unit, University of Malta
Auxetics and Other Unusual Metamaterial Constructs
May 09, 2016: Professor Jose-Maria (Chema) Pena, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid,
Calibration and Optimisation of Mechanical Models using Soft-Computing Techniques
May 04, 2016: Prof. Paul Dawson, Cornell University,
Developing Principle-Based Approaches to Quantify Mechanical Property Distributions of Titanium Alloys
Apr 25, 2016: Dr Patrick Farrell, Oxford Mathematical Institute,
Computing Multiple Equilibria of Structures via Deflation
Mar 08, 2016: Anna Pandolfi,
Metaconcrete: Engineered aggregates for enhanced dynamic performance
Mar 07, 2016: Prof Amy Zavatsky & Prof Paul Buckley, Oxford,
Making sense of the stretching, squashing and twisting of tendon: One of nature's primary load-bearing materials
Feb 29, 2016: Dr Sheena Hindocha, Johnson Matthey Technology Centre,
Johnson Matthey: A leader in sustainable technologies
Feb 22, 2016: Dr Claudio Lopes, IMDEA Materials,
Coupled experimental-numerical mechanical characterisation of composites at several scales
Feb 15, 2016: Prof Cathy Ye, Oxford Engineering Science (IBME),
Biomaterials for tissue engineering applications
Feb 08, 2016: Prof Philippe Young, University of Exeter & Simpleware Ltd,
On image based simulation: From cricket to crickets
Feb 01, 2016: Dr Guillaume Charras, UCL, London,
Long and short time-scale rheology of living cell monolayers
Jan 25, 2016: Dr Axel Zeitler, Cambridge University,
Engineering applications of Terahertz radiation: From probing supramolecular structure to non-destructive testing
Jan 18, 2016: Prof Robert Adams, Oxford,
Composite materials: Are they good or bad for the environment?