Mahdi Damghani

Qualifications:

CEng (IMechE), PhD, MSc, BSc

Position:

Senior Lecturer

Department:

FET - Engineering, Design and Mathematics

Telephone:

+441173287369

Email:

Mahdi.Damghani@uwe.ac.uk

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About me

Dr Mahdi Damghani obtained his BSC in civil engineering from IUST in 2004.  He attained a MSC in structural engineering from KNT University in 2006, followed by PhD in 2009 from Cardiff university in the analysis of buckling of delaminated composite plates. Mahdi had been a senior stress engineer with various industrial leaders before joining academia. As such, he has acrued a wealth of practical and theoretical experience within the field of composite, metallic analysis, design and optimisation in aerospace and structural applications with both academic and industrial leaders. Amongst the academic leaders are Cardiff University, Queen's University Belfast and Swansea university whereas the industrial companies include Bombardier aerospace, Atkins aerospace, Airbus, Cobham, Rolls-Royce and GE.

Area of expertise

Research Expertise

Finite Element Modelling (FEM) of Composite and Metallic Structures; Analytical and Numerical Structural Analysis; Structural Integrity and Stress Analysis; Impact Response and Damage Tolerance of Composite Structures; Fatigue and Residual Strength Assessment; Structural Optimisation; Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM); and Design and Analysis of Lightweight Aerospace Structures.

Funded Research Projects

1. Design, Analysis, Optimisation and Additive Manufacturing of Shape Changing Biocomposites

Funding: UWE Challenge Fund (£40,000)
Investigators: A. Bolouri, N. Karim, M. Damghani and M. O'Donnell
Duration: October 2022 to October 2023

2. Experimental Investigation of Repair Techniques for Highly Loaded Composite Structures

Funding: UWE Internal Research Funding (£60,000)
Investigators: M. Damghani and G. Atkinson
Duration: October 2020 to October 2021

3. Design, Analysis and Optimisation of Composite Structures

Funding: Royal Academy of Engineering (£30,000)
Investigators: M. Damghani and C. Harrison
Duration: October 2019 to October 2021

4. Tensile Residual Strength of Hybrid CFRP/GFRP Composite Structures Following Low Velocity Impact

Funding: UWE Vice Chancellor's Grant (£15,000)
Investigator: M. Damghani
Duration: October 2018 to October 2019

5. Exploiting Aeroelastic Deflections for Improved Aircraft Performance

Funding: EPSRC Institutional Sponsorship (£64,000)
Investigators: M. C. Kim, J. E. Cooper, A. Rhead, H. Khodaparast, M. Damghani and O. A. Stodieck
Duration: November 2016 to March 2017

Total reported project funding: £209,000.

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