ProfessorSilvestre Pinho
Professor in the Mechanics of Composites
Department of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
- Professor in the Mechanics of CompositesDepartment of Aeronautics - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 5076 (Work)
- 314, City and Guilds Building, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
RESEARCH
Silvestre's group's main interest and research contributions include novel experimental insights into various failure modes in composite materials, proposing novel test methods to characterise these failure modes, and finally developing various analytical and numerical models for failure of composites, some of which currently ship natively in both Abaqus and LS-Dyna. His group has also developed bio-inspired microstructures for composites which lead to an over fivefold increase in energy dissipation during failure; some of these have been patented and are being investigated further for eventual application in aircraft.
Silvestre currently supervises with other academics several PhD students and Research Associates. Current and past funding bodies include Research Councils and Industry (EU, EPSRC, ATI, FCT, MoD, DSTL, Airbus, Renault F1 team, Rolls-Royce, BAe systems, Spirit Aerosystems, among others).
You can link to Silvestre's research group here.
GRANTS
- GRANTKnowledge Transfer SecondmentsEngineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC)1 Oct 2009 - 30 Sep 2012