Timetable
11:15-12:00, RSM 3.01D
- Networking Event
12:00-14:00, RSM 2.28
- Seminar Session
Chair: Dr Spyros Masouros, Department of Bioengineering
Speakers
Dr Dan Plant
Mechanical Engineering,
Creator of Armourgel®
Enhanced protection using smart materials – optimising anisotropic energy absorbing elements in helmets
Dr Plant is a Fellow of the RAEng at Imperial College London and the founder of Armourgel Ltd, an SME that has commercialised a revolutionary new energy absorbing material.
Professor Dan Pope
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
The Phenomenology and Analysis of Vehicle Mine Loading
An Honorary Professor in Imperial’s Department of Aeronautics, Professor Pope is a senior technical lead in the area of structural dynamics within the platform systems division at DSTL. He has built a team of physicists and engineers at DSTL who specialise in the numerical simulation of rapid dynamic events in order to provide protection solutions for building, vehicles, aircraft and personnel against blast, impact and ballistic loading.
Joseph Cordell
Defense Science and Technology Laboratory
The use of numerical techniques to identify key factors associated with in-vehicle, lower leg response to underbody mine-blast loading
Joe Cordell is a senior engineer in the Structural Dynamics group in DSTL. His role there is to undertake a wide range of finite element based numerical studies focused on understanding the response of structures to blast events. Such work provides evidence and understanding surrounding mine and IED events and protection enhancements.
Professor Kai-Uwe Schmitt
ETH Zurich
Whiplash Associated Disorders (WAD): from biomechanics research to engineering solutions
Professor of trauma biomechanics at ETH Zurich, Professor Kai-Uwe Schmitt is the author of Trauma Biomechanics: An Introduction to Injury Biomechanics (Springer) as well as the co-director of AGU Zurich consultancy, a working group with expertise on accident mechanics.