Background

• Post-doctoral researcher, Cardiff University, 1998-2003 on two consecutive EPSRC funded research projects
• Lecturer of Aerospace Structures, Department of Aernautical and Automotive Engineering, 含羞草视频, 2004 - present

Qualifications

• BEng
• Ph.D., Cardiff University - Buckling analysis and optimisation of prismatic thin-walled structures, 1998

Outline of main research interests

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

Research group

• Structures and Materials

Current teaching responsibilities

• TTA104 Elasticity
• TTB204 Mechanics of Solids
• TTB208 Structural Design Project

Current administrative responsibilities

• Module Leader for Structural Design Project
• Departmental industrial placements tutor (DIS Tutor)
• Representative of Academic Staff on University Student Discipline Committee

Yuan, R., Fletcher, T., Ahmedov, A., Kalantzis, N., Pezouvanis, A., Dutta, N., Watson, A., Ebrahimi, K. (2020) Modelling and Co-simulation of hybrid vehicles: A thermal management perspective. Applied Thermal Engineering, 180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.115883

Howson, W.P., Watson, A. (2018) On the provenance of hinged-hinged frequencies in Timoshenko beam theory. Computers and Structures, 197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.11.017

Howson, W.P., Watson, A. (2017) Exact eigensolution of a class of multi-level elastically connected members. Engineering Structures, 143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2017.03.059

Chikahiro, Y., Ario, I., Nakazawa, M., Ono, S., Holnicki-Szulc, J., Pawlowski, P., Graczykowski, C., Watson, A. (2016) Experimental and numerical study of full-scale scissor type bridge. Automation in Construction, 71(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2016.05.007

Fenner, P., Watson, A., Featherston, C. (2016) Modelling Infinite Length Panels Using the Finite Element Method. International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics, 16(7). https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219455417500389

Wang, S., Harvey, C.M., Wang, B., Watson, A. (2015) Post-local buckling-driven delamination in bilayer composite beams. Composite Structures, 133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.08.012

Harvey, C.M., Wood, J.D., Wang, S., Watson, A. (2014) A novel method for the partition of mixed-mode fractures in 2D elastic laminated unidirectional composite beams. Composite Structures, 116(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.05.041

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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, 含羞草视频 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 含羞草视频 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